Health tools - a fun way to know your body

Did you know you can calculate the total volume of blood in your body? Or how much water you require. Health tools such as these and about ten more have been clubbed together with online Top Indian doctors help and online health record management. This brings together for the user a comprehensive and easy way to keep abreast on their health care and anytime access to the best doctors of the country using web doctors’ aggregator Medical Second Opinion (MSO).

In times when all functionalities of life are being supported by technology based apps and software, health should not take a back seat. Medical Second Opinion that brings all the above mentioned services to a common man’s home is working on empowering patients with the idea of second opinion.

A small effort gave a world of relief to a cancer patient

Every year my cousin from Australia visits home during the December holidays for more than a month. While most of time is spent sleeping, traveling, eating, getting hooked to Indian TV series and being horrified to how we drive on our roads, this year he is trying to do something useful.

His mother, a cancer survivor has been the subject of his attention. While she was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and successfully went through surgery and chemotherapy, he always regrets not to having been around. So he sat down last week and began sorting all her medical reports and doctor prescriptions to feel the gravity of the horror his mother had been through. It took him a day to arrange all the papers into one file and a couple of hours to sort them in order. Then he took some time off to party.

Patient First Approach To Healthcare

Healthcare until now has largely been a doctor centric approach. Patients have been instructed on to what to do about their health concerns. What medicines to take, what diet plan to follow, which is the best doctors for them, whether they should go in for a surgery or not or which course of investigation best suits them. The point has been that patients are meant to follow what the doctor says without challenging them with self-health awareness or seeking an opinion from another provider.

As a result, we have witnessed an unquestioned rise in the prices of medical care and the gap in the distribution of quality healthcare.  Despite varied attempts at finding solutions to these problems, a doctor to patient model of information has been the understood norm. But with the rising popularity of e-health, the access to healthcare and medical knowledge has been on the rise like never before. Not only can one read and be better informed about a medical condition by themselves with the use of technology, information on investigations, procedures practiced around, other providers available and the infrastructure equipped with them upgrades the position of a patient from a sick, panic stricken individual to an empowered individual who can not only better inform a new provider with his medical problem but also seek more opinions using online medical consultations or online doctor consultation. With live doctors advice coming in, the answers are quick and easy to get. This is being enabled by e-platforms like Medical Second Opinion (MSO), which have the top doctors on their panel giving out consultations online within 24 hours.