{"id":8550,"date":"2024-06-28T12:16:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T12:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp26.cmswebdeveloper.com\/asian-news\/doc-confesses-hes-still-learning-from-his-patients\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T12:16:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T12:16:00","slug":"doc-confesses-hes-still-learning-from-his-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp26.cmswebdeveloper.com\/asian-news\/doc-confesses-hes-still-learning-from-his-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc confesses he\u2019s still learning from his patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.asianexpress.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Satt_24-jpg.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50044\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Consultant Sushen Bhattacharyya<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A hospital consultant says he is still learning life lessons from his patients after more than 35 years on the job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sushen Bhattacharyya enjoys a good conversation and is spoilt for choice as a geriatrician where his elderly patients talk about events few of us have experienced from the Blitz to the Great North Sea Flood of 1953 which threatened to engulf parts of London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThey have so many anecdotes, stories and insights. 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It is what keeps me still interested in medicine after all this time,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sushan recalls his conversation with an elderly man about how old fighter planes managed to fire their guns through the propellors without hitting them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt turned out he had been a fighter pilot during World War Two and proceeded to give me a one-on-one about aerodynamics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The majority of Sushen\u2019s patients arrive on his hospital ward with fractured femurs &#8211; one of the commonest fall injuries in the over 65s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI often think I am a detective as much as a doctor,\u201d adds Sushen who looks for contributing factors behind a fall, such as problems with blood pressure, an abnormal heart rhythm, weakened muscles or the side effects of too many medicines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Patients often tell me they can\u2019t remember why they fell and assume they tripped on something. If we are clear on why someone has fallen, we can try and put measures in place to reduce the chance of it happening again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe see nearly 400 patients a year with this type of fracture so it is worth identifying the commonalities and not just blaming the carpet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of Sushan\u2019s favourite patients was a 92-year-old who came in with a broken hip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI asked what had happened and he told me he had been ice-skating.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIce skating?\u201d, I asked. \u201cWhat on earth made you want to do that?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI was teaching my new girlfriend to skate,\u201d replied the patient.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A hospital consultant says he is still learning life lessons from his patients after more than 35 years on the job. 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