On Thursday I lost my composure with a patient. Mr. G. is a 55-year-old man. He has diabetes and hypertension. He also had a massive stroke that affected the entire left side of his body 3 years ago. He has recovered from the stroke. Medical research says that when a person has had a stroke or a heart attack once, they are likely to get more episodes. A person may get lucky with the first one, but subsequent episodes will keep weakening the body and he may not make such a full recovery. So, Mr. G. was supposed to be extremely careful. But he was not. I had put him on Insulin, maximum doses of diabetes medicines and stroke medicines. It looked like he was not taking most of them. His blood sugar level on Thursday was more than 400 mg/dL. It was alarmingly high. I asked him if he was taking medicines. He promised that he was. Mr. G is this typical ‘religious guy’ with the vibhooti ash on his forehead, the r udraksham on his neck and dressed in crisply...