Mrs.Y used to keep getting a cough. But she ignored it, thinking it was because of pollution or flu. She tried every kind of cough syrup and antibiotic tablets available over the counter from her local chemist. One day when she was climbing the stairs, she began coughing badly. Her chest was feeling tight, she couldn’t breathe properly, and the most frightening thing was that there was a strange whistling noise coming from her chest.
This happened quite often, so she was worried and finally went to her family doctor. She told him, “It’s just a cough, but it doesn’t seem to go away, it keeps coming back. Right now it’s very bad.” The doctor replied, “If you have taken many cough syrups and antibiotics and it still doesn’t get cured, it may not be ‘just a cough’.” Mrs.Y was hoping that her doctor would say that it was a bad case of ‘bronchitis’ or something like that. She was very upset…
