We live in a cynical age and world . Fear, nowadays, generally wins over faith. Recently I saw a patient of asthma whom I had seen earlier too about an year ago. This is her account as she told me : " Doc, I had visited your clinic an year ago and you had done some tests and diagnosed that I had asthma. You had asked me to take some inhaler and with that I had improved. Few days ago, I had gone to my local doctor for a fever and he saw your prescriptions. He told me that these are steroids and I must immediately stop these.
I got scared and stopped them . Slowly my symptoms of breathlessness returned but I somehow tolerated that. Now it is intolerable. I am breathless ALL the time. So I have come back to you.” I said ” I had explained in detail to you that you have asthma and these inhalers have steroids but they are safe and you must continue to take them. Then why did you stop them ?…
