D for Doctor’s D Deficiency

When doctors and medical staff at Hinduja, a Mumbai hospital, submitted blood tests for a study, they didn’t think much of it.

When doctors and medical staff at Hinduja, a Mumbai hospital, submitted blood tests for a study, they didn’t think much of it. When the results returned, they got thinking. Reason: an overwhelming majority were found to have severe vitamin D deficiency. Which explained the backaches. One doctor said diagnosing patients with the deficiency was common enough for him, but it never occurred to him he might be deficient.  “It did come as a surprise. When I thought about my own health before the test, it was in terms of diet. But sunlight?” He said it was a job hazard common to most professionals in India.

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