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You wanted to know whether your fever was dengue or malaria and you just asked to Dr.Google instead of lab tests on the basis of your symptoms. Sometimes your headache search results also lead to cerebral palsy. That is how we are too much reliable on Internet sources. Today, people are making Google a tool to doubt doctors. They cannot trust their own doctors as much as they trust the mobile in their hands. The availability of easy-to-use and cheap Internet may also force us to take advantage of this. 90% of the patients with 18 to 24 years age range trust medical information on social media. I said social media, not a medical journal. Medical journals are enriched with knowledge sources which may be indigestible for the most of people. All want everything on their fingertips. So day by day it's being a vast platform for the consumers to obtain the right information and knowledge to fulfill their queries. Everything is marketed online and the online publicity is now the...

So finally health ministry of India took interest to initiate the fight against antibiotic resistance. Colistin(also known as polymyxin E) has been banned in food producing animals, poultry and aqua farming just before a week. This antibiotic was used so much wildly as prophylaxis for growth promoter in poultry. Colistin was directly affecting the meat consumers and that's why its resistance in human was spreading fastly. So three claps for ministry to show some intent. But it's not the fight of ministry alone. It's us who can make the large impact on the future of antibiotics. We are aware about the horror side of antibiotic resistance but by some small acts or some large facts we can solve it slowly slowly. Here are some recipes to initiate the fire. 1. Hand washing You may be tired of listening the yelling of handwash by your parents from the childhood, but believe me they were on right path. Just by washing your hands before you eat anything, you may win 5...

Nowadays antibiotics are the crucial medicines among all the drugs. All are oversmart enough to consume Azithromycin when sore throat or AmoxyClav when wound with pus or Clindamycin ointment for acne. But they don't know what these mighty molecules are going to be done with the future. All the infections may not require higher antibiotics. Sometimes infection may be due to virus. Here antibiotics are useless or I would say harmful. Antibiotic resistance will be a new disaster before global warming if we don't care. Can you imagine the scenario when your children will be suffering from fever and the medications will not be working for them? Can you imagine the situation of ICUs where all the heroic antibiotics may lose their ability? Can you imagine the era when a surgery will be near to impossible? Yes, we are entering into the era of superbugs. Superbugs will be the new challenge of mankind to survive. As Charles Darvin said everybody has right to survive and thes...

You may be anybody but I must assure that you have to visit a doctor at least once in a life. As we all know the era of medicine has been so much advanced till date, we are confused to select a doctor or the treatment suggested by him or her. That's why we can't explore our best to the doctors to represent our problems. Though it's a duty of doctors to elaborate your history and pick out the prognosis, we should prepare ourselves to make doctors comfortable to diagnose and consult easily. It will be much easier for the doctors to interact with you while taking your history. Here are 7 tips to avoid the miscommunication with your doctor.   1. Let the doctor ask all the questions Sometimes patients explain themselves too much and don't stop for the reaction from doctors. They narrate all the story without understanding the question from doctors. Yes, you are the first one to start the conversation but that doesn't mean you complete all your session ...