A mother once begged me to let her four-year-old daughter die. I was working as a pediatrician in a busy government hospital, used to the cries, the chaos, and the constant emergencies, but never this. Please, doctor, she said, give us some comfort, but let her die.I froze. How could any mother possibly say that. How could any mother lose hope so completely.And then I saw Remy, a severely malnourished little girl, terrified, screaming in frustration, hitting her mother, pulling her hair. Remy was completely ...

Hello everyone. A few days back I had a 14-year-old child who came holding his mother's hand to my OPD. He was obese but otherwise looked quite bright, comfortable. But when I saw his reports, I was shocked. My heart sank. The reports were suggestive of type 2 diabetes malitis. And the mother told me, "Sir, there's no problem I see in him ex and he doesn't eat much food. He just takes chips, biscuits, cold drinks, and noodles. What most of the kids and adolescents like these days mind the words what most of ...