Chinmoy Mukherjee

The Patient's Instinct (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In "The Patient's Instinct," Dr. Vibha Jha is a seasoned ER physician at St. Jude's Hospital who prides herself on evidence-based medicine and dismisses patients' self-diagnoses derived from online research as "Doctor Croak"misinformed hypochondria that wastes time. Her worldview is upended when a young woman named Sarah insists she has Ménière's disease, a rare vestibular disorder, after being dismissed by multiple doctors. Despite Vibha's initial skepticism, tests confirm Sarah's self-diagnosis, prompting Vibha to question her rigid reliance on professional expertise alone. This encounter sparks a series of eye-opening cases, where patients' intuitions, dreams, online research, or even social media insights lead to accurate identifications of conditions like rhabdomyolysis, uterine didelphys, normal pressure hydrocephalus, and ovarian torsion, often after being overlooked or ridiculed by medical staff.

As Vibha documents these stories in her journal, she encounters recurring themes of medical gaslighting, where symptoms are attributed to anxiety or stress, nearly costing lives. From a father's dream revealing his son's hernia to a pregnant woman's TikTok-inspired recognition of intrahepatic cholestasis, each chapter illustrates how patients, attuned to their bodies in ways doctors cannot be, bridge gaps in traditional diagnostics. Vibha's own memories and reflections deepen her empathy, transforming her from a gatekeeper of medical authority to an advocate for collaborative care.

By the novella's conclusion, Vibha leads a hospital-wide shift, implementing protocols that encourage listening to patients' self-insights and integrating tools like "Doctor Croak" into practice. Her Grand Rounds seminar, drawing from her journal, fosters a culture of partnership over paternalism, ultimately saving more lives and redefining medicine as a blend of science and human intuition. The story celebrates the resilience of patients' voices, turning Vibha's skepticism into a profound respect for the "whispers" of the body.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232336325
• Artikelnr.: 75631765

Autorenporträt

Chinmoy Mukherjee is the first Indian to author 100+ books in English, which includes 50+ Novellas. He has been working as solution architect for past 15 years. Over the past 25 years, he has contributed to 50 real-world software projects as an individual contributor. His experience has enabled him to design, develop, and deploy some of the most complex systems, handling millions of transactions per day. As both an AWS and GCP-certified architect, he has not only built 8 systems from scratch but has also successfully re-engineered 7 legacy systems, improving their performance by 1530%.

His expertise in cybersecurity has led to incredible discoveriessome thrilling, some frustrating. He was listed among the top 100 security researchers in the world for Microsoft (Q4, 2022) and also in Google's Hall of Fame. He ethically hacked Baba Bank, retrieving its entire customer database, and even achieved remote code execution in JPMC & Solana. Over time, he has reported critical vulnerabilities to 50+ Australian companies and received bug bounties from Uber, Apple, Mastercard, Octopus Australia, MagicLeap, and Paysafe. One of his wildest exploits? He found a vulnerability that let him order a Porsche without payingonly to receive a meager $1050 bounty for the discovery.

His penchant for testing boundaries made him the first engineer among 500,000 in HCLTech to complete and download all 1,000 offered certificates. In the industry, he played a critical role in defeating Infosys in 3 major RFPs while being part of underdog teams. Beyond corporate challenges, he took the lead in India's first blockchain token deployment, successfully developing and listing tokens on the Ethereum network.

Innovation has been central to his career. He holds 3 patents, granted in the USA and Australia. Among them, he developed "Patient Analytics," a patented system that underwent successful clinical trials in India. He has published a technical book titled "Build Android-Based Smart Applications" via Springer. This book has been downloaded by 18000+ software professionals from single channel of Springer.