Stress, negativity, lack of sleep: Factors that are putting India's doctors at risk of early death
Hindustan TimesDoctors are life saviours and work extremely hard making the right diagnosis and performing life-saving procedures. While doctors are equipped with facts, knowledge and awareness about various health conditions, they are able to do little for themselves owing to long hours and work stress say members of the medical fraternity. Dr Kaushal Chhatrapati, MD DM, FACC FSCAI FESC, Senior Interventional Cardiologist, Saifee Hospital, Cumballa Hill Hospital agrees that doctors need to pay heed to their own advice when it comes to lifestyle changes considering many of them are neither eating well or sleeping properly. Cholesterol, sugar, liver and kidney function are what we prescribe to be tested a dozen times a day, yet never bother to get it checked in our own self," says Dr Kaushal Chhatrapati, MD DM, FACC FSCAI FESC, Senior Interventional Cardiologist, Saifee Hospital, Cumballa Hill Hospital. 'I am unable to sleep a wink on the day I have done a life-saving angioplasty' Dr Chhatrapati says stress is another elephant in the the room and doctors often struggle with finding time for rest and restoration.
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