Dr. Dev was once talking informally with one of his surgeon - teacher. The talk turned to alcohol drinking among doctors. Dr. Dev’s teacher narrated an incidence which happened to him.
The teacher was a teetotaller i.e. never used to take any alcoholic drink in his life. When he got selected as a faculty member in AIIMS, New Delhi, he attended a party where the cocktail was being served. Under pressure from his other faculty members, he reluctantly took just one peg of alcohol.
Next day he developed severe pain in his abdomen. He consulted the gastroenterologist (a medical doctor dealing with abdominal diseases) and was diagnosed as alcoholic pancreatitis.
For Non-Medicos: Pancreas is a deep-seated gland in the upper part of the abdomen, which secretes many hormones including Insulin and other digestive enzymes. Pancreatitis is an inflammatory process of the pancreas usually due to gallstones or alcohol intake. In its severe form, it can even cause the death of the patient.
His condition deteriorated and he had to be admitted to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for treatment. It once appeared that he may not survive his illness. Luckily he survived and got well without any long-term sequelae of the illness. From that day onwards he never touched an alcoholic drink again. It is lucky for the world also he went on to become a world-renowned Uro-surgeon of laparoscopic surgery of the kidney.
Every one of us have different body anatomy and physiology. It is better not come under peer pressure and do something which we really do not want us to do. Sometimes just one drink of alcohol can have a catastrophic consequence.
— ND
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