TRUE STORY ABOUT MY CANCER PATIENT WHO WAS HEALED 26 YEARS BACK.
PICTURE OF THE PATIENT ONE YEAR BEFORE GETTING CANCER, 27 YEARS BACK.
PICTURE ON 22/12/15, YESTERDAY, 26 YEARS AFTER HEALING.
STORY BEGINS in 1989, one evening I was busy in seeing patients in my clinic, one of my regular male patients named Aziz Shah( a clerk in a bank) came and requested,'' My wife is not well and she feels weakness. If you could give her some fluid and vitamin therapy by installing few i/v drips, I would clear the bill in the first week of next month as soon as I get my salary''. I agreed and his wife, NAJMA SHAH, was treated accordingly.
But the couple did not turn up for about 8 months. I never forgot the couple during that period because I had belief that nobody could make good with my money as my income and practice was very just.
At last one evening they came and after placing the amount money of their bill on my table, said ''doctor, we had not forgotten your bill but we were caught in a big problem. My wife had developed thyroid cancer, she was operated for that but her wound has become septic and she is not getting well. I have brought her here right from the hospital bed. You please treat my wife but what I could arrange or borrow the money, that has been spent and now we do not have any money, you pl. do something.'' He handed over me her medical file.
There were reports of two famous pathologists ( Dr Zeenat and Dr Nagi ), conforming the thyroid cancer. I thought that case was confirmed case of cancer and what could I do even if they had the money, that would have gone waste. Seeing the grave situation, I decided to make her life as comfortable as I could. ''Who says this is a cancer, it is not cancer, this picture is found in another condition of thyroid and that is not cancer, big pathologists could not know this, '' I yelled and pretending anger over the reports , threw away the file on the floor.''
''You do not worry, I will treat you and you will be o.k.,you will come to clinic daily to get your medicines''
I gave her some feeding advice along with maximum use of turmeric. Why did I advise turmeric?, Reason was they had already used antibiotics in hospital with no results, I did not want to put financial burden on them and finally I knew that in our eastern culture turmeric is used for wound healing. That it would have an anti cancer effect, I did not know by that time, though there was a small hope in my mind that it could do that
MY SIDE OF THE STORY.
I used to see, on the average, about 100 patients per day, my memory was very good and I could call, by name, any of my patient even after 6 months. I used to recall the faces of all my daily patients and pray for them before going to sleep . This was my daily ritual for my patients. But for this particular patient, just out of sympathy, I started visiting the shrine of our famous saint of the east''Data Sahib''daily at late night and prayed for her a lot. She started recovering. In the meantime I kept check on her mental and physical health. I continued with this routine for 6 months . After making sure clinically , treatment was stopped.
She was perfectly well for about 8 years , then I left the area.
FINDING HER AGAIN.
Now, when I became interested in cure of the cancer, few days back her thought came in my mind and I decided to find her. Four days back I visited that area, it had completely changed in 26 years. It has become thickly populated and there were new constructions, streets were very narrow and my car could not go in. I parked the car in an open space and hired a rickshaw. A lot of time was consumed in getting any information about her family but even the older ones I inquired were not resident of that area for more than 20 years. Finally a very old man gave me some clue of her residence. She came running very happy outside, to greet me. when she came to know that Dr Bakhtyawar Saigol was at the door.
She took me inside, all the family gathered around me and told me that they talked about me too often. When I told them that Najma was suffering from cancer and I intentionally hid that to keep her morale high for better results, she was stunned and tears came in her eyes. Yesterday she came in our hospital at my invitation and her latest picture was taken
CONCLUSION.
But the couple did not turn up for about 8 months. I never forgot the couple during that period because I had belief that nobody could make good with my money as my income and practice was very just.
At last one evening they came and after placing the amount money of their bill on my table, said ''doctor, we had not forgotten your bill but we were caught in a big problem. My wife had developed thyroid cancer, she was operated for that but her wound has become septic and she is not getting well. I have brought her here right from the hospital bed. You please treat my wife but what I could arrange or borrow the money, that has been spent and now we do not have any money, you pl. do something.'' He handed over me her medical file.
There were reports of two famous pathologists ( Dr Zeenat and Dr Nagi ), conforming the thyroid cancer. I thought that case was confirmed case of cancer and what could I do even if they had the money, that would have gone waste. Seeing the grave situation, I decided to make her life as comfortable as I could. ''Who says this is a cancer, it is not cancer, this picture is found in another condition of thyroid and that is not cancer, big pathologists could not know this, '' I yelled and pretending anger over the reports , threw away the file on the floor.''
''You do not worry, I will treat you and you will be o.k.,you will come to clinic daily to get your medicines''
I gave her some feeding advice along with maximum use of turmeric. Why did I advise turmeric?, Reason was they had already used antibiotics in hospital with no results, I did not want to put financial burden on them and finally I knew that in our eastern culture turmeric is used for wound healing. That it would have an anti cancer effect, I did not know by that time, though there was a small hope in my mind that it could do that
MY SIDE OF THE STORY.
I used to see, on the average, about 100 patients per day, my memory was very good and I could call, by name, any of my patient even after 6 months. I used to recall the faces of all my daily patients and pray for them before going to sleep . This was my daily ritual for my patients. But for this particular patient, just out of sympathy, I started visiting the shrine of our famous saint of the east''Data Sahib''daily at late night and prayed for her a lot. She started recovering. In the meantime I kept check on her mental and physical health. I continued with this routine for 6 months . After making sure clinically , treatment was stopped.
She was perfectly well for about 8 years , then I left the area.
FINDING HER AGAIN.
Now, when I became interested in cure of the cancer, few days back her thought came in my mind and I decided to find her. Four days back I visited that area, it had completely changed in 26 years. It has become thickly populated and there were new constructions, streets were very narrow and my car could not go in. I parked the car in an open space and hired a rickshaw. A lot of time was consumed in getting any information about her family but even the older ones I inquired were not resident of that area for more than 20 years. Finally a very old man gave me some clue of her residence. She came running very happy outside, to greet me. when she came to know that Dr Bakhtyawar Saigol was at the door.
She took me inside, all the family gathered around me and told me that they talked about me too often. When I told them that Najma was suffering from cancer and I intentionally hid that to keep her morale high for better results, she was stunned and tears came in her eyes. Yesterday she came in our hospital at my invitation and her latest picture was taken
CONCLUSION.
What is or are the factors that led to her complete cure of the disease. Such sort of questions do come in mind, whether,
(i) it was because of turmeric and other feeding advice?
(2) Was that effect because of prayers?
(3) Or removal fear of cancer and continuous morale boosting was more important?
(4) whether trust of the patient in the doctor or doctor's sincere efforts for his patient are important?
ALL ARE VERY IMPORTANT, IN MY OPINION.
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Cancer has multimodal etiology and needs multimodal approach in treatment too, Dr. Bakhtyawar Saigol.
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