Dr. Sajjan Rajpurohit’s Post

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I have seen patients who are very much afraid of side effects and they experience side effects to much more than a patient who is positive minded. Now what happens the moment the patient starts experiencing side effects with much and more and more the medication for controlling the side effects also become more and more the intensity of treatments reduces because then the necessary drugs cannot be used at proper dose. The necessary radiation dose cannot be given. Or there will be interruption in treatment. Now all these things have clear cut implication in treatment outcome. There are so many evidences which say that the treatment should be completed within this specific time. I can give you an example like we say in cervical cancer, the entire treatment should compete within eight weeks that gives benefit. Now if the patient comes with a lot of side effects because of all these negative thoughts in the treatment gets interrupted and then everyone day delay. Reduces the chance of cure by 1%. So it's significant. Similar things can happen in other head neck cancers as well. So definitely positivity and negativity have implication in treatment, in toxicity and in final outcome in terms of cure. Now little bit about spirituality. I am not a spiritual guru and the way I define spirituality is something. Is nothing related to religion. It's a belief in some kind of energy, an energy which gives us inner strength of belief and positivity that OK, whatever happens. It's part of life and let us accept and let us work towards something which will make our life better and that is exactly what we all work for. Voting, uh, which I have found is that it is very important for us to want to our patients. Yes. What I felt is that sometimes when doctors are very distinct from a, from a patient, they actually end up going to some other faith healers who who get their into their mindset, yes and try to actually not do good for them. We see many patients who go into faith healing or some Mamas, yes, and then they end up actually. So there are certain people who are positive spiritual, but they are on the right track. But there are other people who are spiritual, positive, but not respect to other people.