Bodhibrata Banerjee is a rheumatology fellow in India.
Some illnesses do not storm the body to the brink of death. They don’t show up in emergency rooms or leave dramatic scans behind. Yet they quietly hollow a life from the inside, stealing ease, stealing spontaneity, turning ordinary days into endurance tests. Autoimmune disease and chronic pain often live in that space: not terminal, but relentless; not fatal, yet capable of dimming the world so deeply that survival becomes …
I have often heard people speak of numerology, weaving destinies around digits. They say that behind every event in a person’s life lies the hidden hand of numbers. I do not know if such beliefs hold scientific truth. Yet, in medicine, numbers certainly matter. Numbers fill our trial registers, power our statistics, shape our protocols. In research, life is reduced to codes, columns, and counts.
As a medical student, the jargon …
Some battles announce themselves with trumpets; others creep in silently, spreading their fire unseen. His battle was the latter. What began as a hidden spark in his muscles had grown into an inferno consuming his young body from within.
He was barely thirteen, a boy from Bihar, when fate dragged him into this fight. By the time he reached us, fever had bound him for three relentless weeks. His pulse was …
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