THE TRAFFIC POLICE SYNDROME This is a reality, .... following near extinction of general practitioners, what remains for the health care need of the people is a sea of traffic police officers directing the patients to the chambers of different specialities instead of taking the initiative of taking care for the existing co-morbidities of different kinds. In a way, the compartmentalisation has become such a reality that when a DM cardiologist (who has done his MD in general medicine obviously) confronts my patient who is a case of Ess.
HTN + NIDDM + undignosed condition of recent onset what patient describes as 'attacks of instability' (as if he is being pushed to a near fall) with a sensation of "howling noise" in his ears....the episode is ill-sustained and patient gets back to normalcy in a short while. After being satisfied of his cardiac status the DM guides him to consult a…
