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Understanding Your Health Check Up Results.

People when they do a Master Health Check up, are often stumped when trying to understand the results.

Though the Doctor is the competent person to interpret the Data, it is in our interest to understand what the Health Check Results say.

The reason is many Doctors often willingly misinterpret or distort facts , taking advantage of our ignorance and put you on medication, for which they are being compensated by the the Pharmaceutical Companies(Please read my post on Hoe Doctors have been paid by these companies, filed under 'Health/Consumer information)

This understanding of the Data gives you a chance to discuss your health issues with the Doctor, and as I have seen' the Doctors are wary of people who seem to know, not necessarily know,some thing about the subject.

Now to Health Check up Preparation.

Surgeons ‘Leave Things Inside The Patient’ 4000 a Year

I have seen surgeons administering Anesthesia when the patient suffered a Lung related disease and could not stand a particular anesthetic for they never referred the History of the patient.

There are cases where a wrong part is operated upon..

The instance quoted in the article is peanuts for us in India.

.Patients in India or their relieves need to be more vigilant in Hospitals and should demand to know the Surgical Procedure, Anesthesia to be used, and check for any abnormality after the surgical procedure and react immediately without standing on form of Behavior or fear of reprimand by the Hospital or the doctor.