| Mr. Denial had an often complained of chest pain and | | | | hospitals in India have health check-up programmes |
| difficulty in breathing. Denial is a resident of | | | | that screen every part of the body meticulously and |
| Switzerland he is working as a teacher of history in | | | | professionally. A proper health check-up scans your |
| high school. He was worried about that the chest | | | | bio-history, interprets signals and provides the |
| pain and breathing problem can be symptoms of any | | | | opportunity for the proverbial "stitch in time". A heart |
| severe disease. He was thinking of having a complete | | | | check-up constituting echocardiography, consultation |
| health check up for diagnose his disease, but it was | | | | by a senior cardiologist, blood test, general test and |
| not possible at that time because he has to attend a | | | | haemogram can go a long way in ensuring a healthy |
| seminar in India. He was confused that he should | | | | heart. The test can be done at any of the leading |
| attend the seminar or he should have a complete | | | | cardiac hospitals or private clinics. |
| health check up, he came to know about forerunners | | | | So who should do health check up? |
| healthcare arranging the complete health up in India. | | | | People with family histories of certain medical |
| He got himself enrolled for a complete health check | | | | conditions should go before they develop symptoms. |
| at one the hospital of Mumbai as a prevention .He | | | | eg, a strong family history of heart attacks, certain |
| was asked to undergo CT scan and an MRI. Holding | | | | cancers. Most people above 40 should consider |
| his breath for even 20sec was a great difficulty | | | | getting themselves checked at least once, and then |
| during the CT scan! Doctors then conducted his MRI | | | | maybe 3 yearly if no problems are detected. |
| and noted a tumor in his brain. They conducted a | | | | Is the test accurate? |
| major surgery on his Brain, after a successful brain | | | | No use doing a test if the results don't give you a |
| surgery, while he was undergoing the treatment. The | | | | good answer. eg. the blood test for the cancer |
| Preventive health check saved his life by detecting | | | | marker for colon cancer may go up in other medical |
| his tumor early. Today he leads a normal life. | | | | conditions, or not be raised in early cancer. So a |
| What is Whole Body Check Up? | | | | "normal" result doesn't mean anything. Neither does a |
| Many common and life-threatening conditions can be | | | | "raised" result. |
| treated successfully if detected early. Many leading | | | | |