28/11/2025
Doctor how are you the first doctor in my life to be able to diagnose my 31 year old condition in less than 30 seconds!!?
As my patients walk in through the door, my eyes try to diagnose them while they walk and a lot of times their attire, or the way they dress or comb their hair or the way they walk in can tell me what they have even before we start discussing the actual condition...
A 31 year old with a strangely odd baggy dress much unlike other 31 years, enters my room and that tells me she is trying to hide something pertaining to her chest area behind the bagginess of the dress...
And as soon as she starts speaking and shows me her hands, I know that she must be having Poland's syndrome.
Now the innocent question she had for me was that so many doctors and gynaecologists and surgeons saw her before me but no one diagnosed her condition in all these years, then how could I? And I have no answer except a smile and a short statement, "Because this is a condition that, WE, as Plastic surgeons reconstruct frequently!!?"
She smiles back and says, "I wish I had met you earlier in life. I was worried through all these years that why only me suffering with this strange asymmetry of the chest!!"
