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One sunday evening, Gynanoday Margadarsi is sipping coffee and typing the monthly progress report for his work.It is sunny outside and a soft music is playing in the background.Suddenly, he hears the shouts of children.He peeks out of his window and sees some guys playing cricket.He is annoyed at the disturbance.AndWhat does he do?He doesn’t shout at them to stop playing cricket, go home and study as cricket was never part of our culture.Instead,He closes the window, switches on the AC and continues to do his work, while listening to music and sipping coffee.He is matured man. He knows what they are doing is legally and lawfully right. They have all freedom to do that. And he cannot tell them to not to do. So instead he shuts his window and minds his own business.The disturbance could be anything. For example, it could beA girl wearing shorts and sleeveless and going with her boyfriend.A couple in the neighbourhood having a live-in relationship.A girl next door sipping green tea with her lesbian partner.His Hindu colleague doesn’t go to temples, celebrate festivals or doesn’t know the connection between Sugriva and Shatrughna.Still he doesn’t bother.He feels others have right to live their lives as much as he has. And culture cannot be imposed forcefully to make others feel guilty about doing something that is legally doable.What a man!He has full-grown brain with amazing levels of common-sense.Be like him.

There are many excellent sources of information about cancer that are readily available to consumers via the Internet. The National Cancer Institute has a huge site that covers nearly all types of cancer. Institutions such as Johns Hopkins or the Mayo Clinic make a great deal of information available. The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and the American Cancer Society also have good websites with a lot of information and the AACR releases a Cancer Progress report each year that is very useful (Welcome - Cancer Progress Report).I am very proud to be editor-in-chief of Cancer Today, a magazine published by the AACR that is aimed at lay readers, specifically people living with cancer, their caregivers, and loved ones. It publishes many insightful and useful articles. You can follow the progress of Stand Up To Cancer research on its website Stand Up To Cancer. Every six months, progress updates are published to provide an open and transparent report on progress made with the funds donated by collaborators and the public.The key thing is to get information from reliable sources. Look for peer review of articles by qualified scientists and doctors. Be wary of any website, publication or organization that is pushing miracle cures.Believe me, they don’t work.

I am a pediatrician. I once saw a 16 year old boy with vomiting. Explosive vomiting. He had been seen repeatedly in the ER with no resolution. He came to see me. He was not my regular patient nor my colleagues‘. Just a new patient.He didn’t particularly look dehydrated for someone with this extensive history. He started heaving and retching in my office. I had to run all the way to the utility room to get the vomit bowl. He could hold it until I got back which was remarkable.Anyway, I thought there was a possibility this was a conversion reaction. But, from experience we rule out somatic disease . So I admitted him to the hospital to observe further. We still could not find a cause in the hospital. We decided to refer him to a GI specialist to scope him. I did mention to his mother that it could be psychological and might also need a referral to a psychiatrist. Mom was outraged at this suggestion.Lo and behold the endoscopy uncovered a small ulcer in the gastric mucosa and so eureka! The problem is solved. The gastroenterologist prescribed an antacid. There was prompt relief. And mom swore at me .I was suspicious because the response was so immediate. He took one dose and it all resolved.After a couple of months the gastroenterologist sent me a progress report that the patient had returned because he missed one dose and now it has recurred. He was beginning to wonder at how it can recur after missing just one dose. Anyway the mother had sworn me off. I was out of the picture.A month or so later he was back visiting the ER. The residents told me the boy would interrupt the mother and kept saying Dr. Lwin (me) says it was psychological ,but the mom kept shutting him down.So there it goes. Its very hard to bring up psychological issues as an underlying problem.