Chapter 2 - Good going

 

I was looking for any option to do online service as a doctor and as the project in which I was posted had been getting over I was looking for an alternate job as well. At that time, I got a call from one HR consultancy stating an online health consultation platform looking for a doctor and my profile was matching. I accepted to go further and attended written test and interview virtually through video call. I was selected and went online within around 2 weeks. I was feeling very happy as I was able to serve patients online itself without the need to meet them in person.

 

As the days went on still there was some emptiness in me which was due to the same reason that making prescriptions with the conventional drug treatment. I was unhappy about the treatment strategy of increasing the dose of medications and adding newer costly medications when older ones fail to control the blood sugar of diabetics and/or BP of hypertensive patients. Something was missing. The approach was like having a hammer in hand and considering everything as a nail and keeping on striking.

 

In the mean time Covid19 infection started and spread worldwide. The company in which I was working served many people in that tough situation by providing online consultations with specialists nationwide at an offer price in both first and second waves and also Covid Home Care for those who could be treated at home itself. I was feeling proud to be a part of the company. My friends even commented that I was a visionary correctly predicted the arrival of the viral pandemic and went online before itself. I was feeling satisfied and safer doing online consultations taking care of patients on one side and my family as well on the other side equally without any compromises.

 

I was doing my duty of serving patients with all my effort but still that same emptiness persisted. I came to know about the long-term care provided to the patients having chronic conditions like diabetes and obesity in my company. I was excited to know about that and happily referring my patients to the long-term care programs. Eventually the emptiness was partially filled then. I was excited that there was a different approach initiated and also that was having a good response as well.

 

Once when I was doing my duty suddenly got a message that I was posted in Diabetes Care Program. I was very happy to know that and I thought finally I was about to do what I would be liking the most to do. The holistic approach, the life style modifying approach, the very natural approach that is going to the root cause of the disease and treating that. Rather than cutting the leaves of weeds we are uprooting them. I took the responsibility of being a health coach to the patients enrolled in that program and started doing that with full vigor and passion.

 

Finally, I feel now I am doing the right job which I was looking for all these days.