dugnostic skills of machines

[Guest guest]

The metoric rise in diganostic techniques using electro magnetic

waves and higher energy radiations occured in last 20-25 years. The

image processing softwares now afford to make measurements of the

size and color density measurements also. The speciality hospitals

were quick to adopt the costly equipment, as funds were easy. Despite

this the diseases proved smarter by advancing at better rate than

that of science. Despite the weight of the report file increasing,

the number of cases where no conclusive diagnosis was available are

growing, even in some super speciality hospitals in metros and even

most premier institute in capital of the country.

 

Some cases are posted in archives and sincere researchers in west are

now bringing out the uncertainity principle active in the process of

leaving dignostics to machines. The skill of the operator becomes

important in using machines, e.g. mammograms. And safety of the high

energy radiation scans has not been established. The innocent youth

is now a victim of slow posioning, tumor causing cell phone. The

alarms on USG (during pregnancy) are also in archives.

 

Did not acharyas say that the disease is the interaction of our mind

body complex with the environment?

 

And when allopaths are now frustrated with " no firm diagnosis " after

exhausting all machines, will ayurvedists throw new light on their

weak diagnostic science? The doctors who could diagnose 30 different

cardiac conditions through stethoscope alone, are not many.

 

In the face of the simplicity of ayurveda, where simple pulse count

test can tell whether a medicine is in right direction or not, desire

to accumulate machine diagnostic papers perhaps speak of weakness or

lack of confidence in diagnosis or fear of medico-legal case. Vaidya

should try getting proficiency in diagnosis and materia medica,

rather than trying to prove to the patient or " society " (which

includes state, legislature, court etc) that his diagnostic is/was

right. The fear can be slowly overcome, by diverting complex cases to

those with more experience or confidence.

 

Ayurveda texts guide the vaidya as to whether patient is likely to

get cured, or is impossible to cure and is likely to remain alive for

one day/week or month. How many vaidyas carry out these simple tests?

 

The lack of one-to-one correspondence between ayurvedic principles

and detailed modern reports will always remain a wide gap with

controversial opinions of vaidyas. Few patients went with their

reports to two different modern vaidyas and opinions differed. This

can happen, as allopaths also were inconclusive.

 

Even Dogs can smell cancer, where machines proved wrong!

http://health.ayurveda/message/5500

 

 

Such opinion is detrimental to Ayurveda practice, I mean the

registered practitioners who practice in their dispensaries /

consulting rooms / hospitals.