18/06/2026
WHY IS IT JUST DIFFICULT TO CHANGE? IM TIRED .
This patient just dropped on the chair, place these pills on your table and said in a resigned voice
" Dokota nalemađ"
"Doctor, I am tiredđ"
On the table is a plastic of the drugs like she got the whole despensary. Unnecessary drugs are her daily portion. She eats medicines like food, yet the medicines, for 4 years have never helped her
- She has two surgeries to her name: to remove a gallbladder and to repair haemorrhoids.
- Chronically high blood pressure that never goes away despite being on 3 antihypertensive medicine. This morning his BP is 169/98 MmmHg
- Chronically high blood sugar that has never been under control despite switching from oral hypoglycemic drugs to insulin. This morning her fasting blood sugar is at 10.5 MMOL/ L
- Three hospital admission since last year because of diabetes.
- A 2-year leg wound.
- A concoction of drugs.
How would you feel? "Professor smile" , Can you smile ifi?
Here is the thing:
Eat your food as medicine or in the future you will eat your medicine as food. Fix your health because modern hospitals are in business
Let me tell you about this patient.
6 months ago in the public hospital where I worked , I met this 56-year-old woman who had a long-standing diagnosis of chronic hypertension.
I sat with her and took her through an elaborate health education about chronic diseases and nutrition. I designed a nutritional map for her. I instructed her children not to attempt any fishy business of buying her inflammatory foods.
Today, 6 months later, she called me that she wants to be reviewed. I asked her to come because today I was available. Well, let me just say I am not disappointed.
She says she was admitted recently because of hypertension, diabetes, ulcers and arthritis.
I have since gathered that her children dismissed the nutrition plan I created for her. They told her that they have never seen a doctor who tells hypertensive patients to eat salt and meat.
They strongly cautioned her against my advice. In fact, they started taking her to a physician at a high-end hospital in Lusaka
She is now 116 kgs from 103 kgs last November. She cannot breathe normally suspecting heart failure, her joints are inflamed and her blood sugars are abnormally high.
Her blood pressure today is 220/108 mmHg. Her blood sugar readings today are at 14.2mmols/l fasting blood sugar. All these abnormal readings despite being on expensive drugs and with NO SALT in her diet.
Her recent hospital bill is K15,000 together with a pack of several drugs in her bag to swallow daily forever.
This is the challenge I encounter daily. We live in an OBESITY society where the greed for eating surpasses the need for a healthy lifestyle.
I have told her that the solution to her problem is ignoring her children and following the nutrition guideline I made for her. I reminded her that if she continues walking the same path, she is staring at a stroke, heart attack or kidney failure.
CHANGE or PERISH.