The Stryker Mako robotic surgery arrived in India in earnest about six years ago. Fortis Hospital Mohali was among the early adopters in Punjab and the Chandigarh region. I’ve been using it since, and the honest assessment of its impact on my practice is this: it has made a good [...]
One of my patients — a 58-year-old retired district judge from Patiala — came to his three-month follow-up and asked, very carefully, whether he could resume his morning yoga practice. I asked him to describe what the practice involved. He described a sequence that included forward folds, hip flexion beyond [...]
Cost is the first question in roughly half my OPD consultations. It’s also one of the questions surgeons are most evasive about, which I find genuinely unhelpful. A patient trying to decide whether and when to have surgery needs real numbers. “It depends” is not an answer. So I’m going [...]
Last Tuesday, a 61-year-old retired bank manager from Sector 15 Chandigarh walked into my OPD at Fortis Mohali carrying an X-ray in a brown envelope. He’d had it for fourteen months. His GP had told him he needed hip replacement surgery. He’d spent those fourteen months researching, worrying, and — [...]