The Pocket Doctor

Contents:
Preface • Acknowledgments

A Cold That Doesn?t Seem to Go Away • Generalized Aches and Pains • Cough Lasting More Than 2 Weeks • Breathing Trouble • Chest Pain: Is it a Heart Attack? • Controlling Your Blood Pressure • Is Cholesterol Intake Harmful? • Detecting Diabetes Early • Recurrent Hypoglycemia in Diabetics • Treating Diabetes in Pregnancy • Self-adjusting Your Insulin Dose • Knowing the Problems with Eating Sugar • Swollen Feet • How Much Alcohol Can You Drink? • A Bothersome Headache • Giddiness • Burning Feet • Memory Problems • Sleepless Nights • Leg Cramps • Evaluating Unexpected Weight Loss • How to Gain Weight? • Hard to Lose That Flab! • Who Should Screen for Cancer? • Are Your Vitamin Supplements Harming You? • Taking the Flu Shot • Choosing the Right Antibiotic • Fever for More Than 2 Weeks • Knowing the Distinguishing Features of Tropical Infections Like Dengue, Malaria, and Typhoid • Dealing with Urine Infection in Women • Acute Diarrhea • Diarrhea for More Than 4 Weeks • Bloating and Indigestion • Blood in Stools • Painful Passage of Stools • Upper Tummy Pain • Lower Tummy Pain • Understanding Jaundice • Deciding on an Operation for Gallstones • Low Back Ache • Understanding Osteoporosis • Hurting Knees • Not Getting Pregnant • Recurrent Miscarriages • White Discharge in Women • Excessive Hair Loss • Acute Allergic Reactions • Including the Right Tests in Your ?Health Check-up? • Cautions for Procedures Using Contrast Agents • Protecting Your Kidneys

 

About the Author:

Dr. Anila Chandy is a physician associated with the Apollo group of hospitals and Motherhood Hospital, Chennai, India. A medical graduate from the Christian Medical College, Vellore, and postgraduate in Internal Medicine from the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, she has authored various publications and articles for the medical fraternity.
Passionate about bringing understandable medicine within the reach of the layman at an affordable price, she has written this book. Having served in rural India for over 2 years, and with a total of over 15 years practicing experience in well- known hospitals, she understands the need to diagnose patients at the basic level first, before ordering expensive and often unnecessary medical tests.
This work is like a reference medical book that attempts to list out common symptoms and possible diagnosis. It is not exhaustive and does not attempt to be such. On the other hand, it equips the patient with some understanding of common ailments before approaching a hospital. It also gives sound advice on how to eat and live healthy.