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EDITORIALS
WHO SHOULD SUBSCRIBE BHJ?
Who should be the subscriber of Bombay Hospital Journal? We have many physicians, surgeons and gynaecologists who subscribe because they have to deal with medical problems everyday which the patients complain of. But our target audience is general practitioners. Thus we always have a few articles to update their knowledge and of course a few scientific, original articles and reviews to make them aware of what is happening.
From this Issue onwards, I plan to start a new column on ‘How should neurology be practised by family physicians and how do I look at it as a non-speciality’. I must emphasize that the most common complaints of headache, giddiness and fainting fits have no investigations to confirm the diagnosis. At the other hand, the most fatal neurological conditions like rabies, tetanus and cerebral malaria have no available tests to confirm the diagnosis.
Similarly shunt procedures (which serve more or less as stent procedure) are also advised to patients of normal pressure hydrocephalus and idiopathic benign intracranial hypertension where the presentation is like medical illness.
Thus in the next three year I intend to take up each topic of neurology and discuss it in a way that a family physician should handle it as if it was a non-neurological subject. Remember that the patients come with complaints and often you are not likely to find a disease to explain the complaint. In this first issue, I have started with the disease of ‘Myopathy’, a non-neurological entity as seen in general medical practice.
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