Somatization and Depression
It is often seen in low to middle income countries (LMIC) that, as the living standard of the population improves, their health services have to adapt from the challenge of … Continue reading
Happiness and Heart Disease
Laughter is one of the best forms of medicine! A few years ago, I read an article in a medical journal about a research study conducted by cardiologist Professor Michael … Continue reading
Taking the Gym Home
Exercising at Home during the period of Corona virus isolation isn’t difficult if you know how to ‘Take the Gym Home’ – and make your home conducive to regular exercise! … Continue reading
Surviving the COVID-19 Pandemic
For the past few thousand years, we in South Asia have been greeting each other by touching our own hands together in a respectful Ayubowan or Namasthe greeting rather than … Continue reading
Medication or Meditation?
While the value of meditation has been known in Buddhist and Hindu traditions from time immemorial, it is only recently that western medicine has come to acknowledge that meditation can … Continue reading
Warning Signs of Heart Attack
Forewarned is forearmed…. Coronary heart disease (CHD) – principally because it is responsible for heart attacks – is the single leading cause of death in the modern world. Sadly, many … Continue reading
Injecting Disinfectant
Most folk with even a modicum of medical knowledge would have been appalled by the recent pronouncement of American President Donald Trump that injecting disinfectant into human bodies might be … Continue reading
The Unpredictability of Life
One of the things we are all learning as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic is that Life is so unpredictable. Many of us have been so busy working hard, … Continue reading
A Lucky Heart Attack
“You know, Doc” observed one of my patients to me recently “the best thing that could have happened to me was my getting that heart attack last year”. You may … Continue reading
Dealing With Grief
All of us at some time in our lives will experience grief following the loss of a loved one. The terrible events that took place in Sri Lanka on Easter … Continue reading
Sanjiva Wijesinha -writer and physician 
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