CONTENTS

Foreword

Preface

Chapter 1
Dates with the ICU
The Eye Does Not See
What the Mind Does Not Think

Chapter 2
KKP/KKP/KAM: Never Presume in Medicine or in Life

Chapter 3
If Only Showing Off, At Least Do It Properly

Chapter 4
The Rat Race for Six Feet of Land

Chapter 5
Shortest Story on Positive Attitude: The Cup Is Always Half Full

Chapter 6
Google Doctors: Good or Bad?

Chapter 7
Childhood Obesity: The Great Mahakavi Bharathiar’s Solution

Chapter 8
Heroes to Zeroes: From ‘My God’ to ‘Oh My God’

Chapter 9
Birth of Idhayangal Charitable Trust, UK

Chapter 10
Rebirth of Arjun and Birth of Idhayangal, India

Chapter 11
Kannan and His Heartbreaking Umbrella

Chapter 12
Mountain of Gold and Walking God

Chapter 13
Amsaveni’s Godliness Versus Bill Gates’s Greatness

Chapter 14
Subba Iyer: The Art of Living, Giving and Gying

Chapter 15
Diet, Weight Loss and Diabetes: The Million-Dollar Question

Chapter 16
PHD, 5210, HPS10K for Weight Loss: How Do I Lose Weight?

Chapter 17
Agrochemicals and Diabetes: Our Tuppence to Research

Chapter 18
Don’t Throw Stones from Glasshouses

Chapter 19
Your World Can Change Over a Cup of Coffee

Chapter 20
Everything Is for Good: The Wise Minister Story

Chapter 21
Say a Big No to Corruption in Medicine

Chapter 22
Are Doctors Gods?

Chapter 23
Valuable Tips for Doctors: Earn Your Patients’ Blessings

Chapter 24
Valuable Tips for Patients: Trust Your Doctor

Chapter 25
Mukund’s History-Taking Skills and Life’s Lessons

Chapter 26
Attitude, Life, Illness and the 100/100 Story

Chapter 27
The Power of Faith and Trust: The Mersal Father Story

Chapter 28
Hanging Around the Noose

Chapter 29
Empty Vessels Make the Most Noise

Chapter 30
Dealing with BGDs Worldwide

Chapter 31
Why Me? Why Not Me?

Chapter 32
The African Slipper Story: Our Challenges Are Our Opportunities

Chapter 33
Earn Your Patients’ Blessings, Not Their Money: Winning Race for Doctors

Chapter 34
She Knows When, Where, What and How to Give

Chapter 35
Tale of Two Pumps

Chapter 36
The Hand of God

Chapter 37
The Kuppan–Subbhan Story

Chapter 38
Power of Destiny

Chapter 39
Think Positively: The Story of Thathashthu

Chapter 40
Tale of Two Punishments: The KFC Policy

Chapter 41
The Miser Who Saves to Pay Others to Bury Him

Chapter 42
Never Give In or Give Up

Chapter 43
Governor Award and the Seashell Story

Chapter 44
Project Kathir: A Ray of Hope

Chapter 45
The Kavadi and Brother Story

Chapter 46
The Story of Sathyaprakash: The Three Wishes of a Dying Man

Chapter 47
Dr. Abdul Kalam’s Dream Child: The Story of Vasantha

Chapter 48
How 120 Becomes 250: The Almighty’s Magic

Chapter 49
Doctor’s Note and Patient’s Fate: The Flotral–Folitrax Error

Chapter 50
Technology with a Touch of Humanity: The Story of Shenba and Starfish

Chapter 51
Smoking Kills: The Only Advertisement That Is 100% True

Chapter 52
Alcohol and Diabetes?

Chapter 53
The Devil Is in the Detail

Chapter 54
A Painful Outcome and a Positive Outcome

Chapter 55
Eswari and the Story of Rasi Van

Chapter 56
Things That Money Can’t Buy

Chapter 57
Poverty in the Purse, Plenty at Heart

Chapter 58
“If Only You Could Have Come Thirty Minutes Earlier”

Chapter 59
ACT-FAST: My Father’s Story

Chapter 60
Diabetes and Kidneys: The Story of Satheesh

Chapter 61
Diabetes and Feet: Stop the Slow Barefoot Walk to Death

Chapter 62
Diabetes and Eyes: Foresight Needed to Protect Eyesight

Chapter 63
Hypoglycaemia: Going Too Low Is a Body Blow

Chapter 64
The Three Musketeers: All for One and One for All

Chapter 65
A–Z of Diabetes

Chapter 66
If You Do HER Work, SHE Conspires to Do Yours!

Chapter 67
Let Us Have a Purpose in Life

Chapter 68
Let Ego Go

Chapter 69
Power of a Dhoti

Chapter 70
Idhayangal Charitable Trust: The Greatest Ride of Life

Chapter 71
The Appointment

Chapter 72
Final Thoughts

Flagship Achievements of Idhayangal

Dr Krishnan Swaminathan, is a Consultant in diabetes and endocrinology, based in Coimbatore. He is among the few doctors in India to hold a UK MD, MRCP, FRCP and a PhD from the prestigious IIT Madras. He is also the author of two books, Diabetes Demystified (English) and Samaniyanum Sarkarai Noyum (Tamil), and has published over eighty papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals. Having graduated from Madras Medical College, he trained further at renowned centres worldwide, including Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London; Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge; and Ninewells Hospital, Scotland, before returning to India in 2011. He is the founding trustee of Idhayangal Charitable Trust supporting more than 4000 underprivileged children with Juvenile Diabetes in India.