Dr. Sunita Sah
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332 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 6 Feb
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It's wonderful to be here.
I'm so excited to talk to you.
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It's wonderful to be here. Thank you.
Yes. I had this immense chest pain. And it was a pain that I had not felt before. And so I thought I should do something about this. And I ended up going to the emergency room in Pittsburgh, which is one of my first experiences of the health care service in the U.S., having moved from the U.K., And it was very efficient.
Within minutes, I was actually through triage and a nurse had whisked me into an examination room and they did a lot of tests, including an electrocardiogram to make sure there was nothing wrong with my heart, which was my primary concern. And everything was fine. So I was relieved and my pain was going down a little bit.
And I told the doctor and I thought I was about to get released from the emergency room. And she said, well, actually, just before you go, I would like you to have a CT scan. And so I was like, oh, I wonder why? Why is that? And she said, just to make sure that you don't have a pulmonary embolism.
A pulmonary embolism causes what we call pleuritic chest pain. And this is a sharp pain. It catches your breath when you inhale and exhale. That was not the type of pain that I was experiencing. just did not think that I had this embolism in my lungs. And so I did not think the CT scan was necessary and I didn't want it because why expose yourself to ionizing radiation if you don't need it?
I mean, with a CT scan, it's about 70 times more on average than the radiation you get from an x-ray. It's still small, but why have it if you don't need it? And so I should have said no to the CT scan, and yet I didn't.
I knew how much radiation was in the CT scan. And so I wanted her to say, oh, are you comfortable with that? I wanted her to ask me so I could say, actually, no, I'm not. Do I really need this? And she didn't. She didn't. She just hesitated and then...
I couldn't say no.
No. The images showed everything was clear. Everything was fine. And I regretted so much not being able to speak up and just say anything. I don't think I have a pulmonary embolism. I just want to go home. I so regretted that.
Yes. His doctor had actually recommended for his lower back pain for him to do some stretching, some exercises, and that a deep tissue massage would probably help. So he booked one in New York City and he was really looking forward to having some relief from his pain. And he walked in. The place was just very serene. It was a nice scented room, candles, lovely music playing.
The massage therapist told him to get onto the massage table. And he did. And thought, this is amazing. Then the massage therapist came in and he put two warm hands onto Rick's back. And then all of a sudden, he dug his elbow in really sharp into his trapezius muscle, which is near the top of his back. And immediately Rick wanted to say something.
He wanted to scream out and say, ah, but he didn't. He hesitated and thought, OK, that's just the first. That's just the first part of the massage. But then he continued over and over again. And each time the elbow dug into his back, his upper and his lower back and all along, he was just trying to stifle all this pain and screams. He just didn't say a word.
He wanted to, but he could not say anything.
Once he got home, he told his wife about this massage and she said, that's not normal. Why didn't you say anything? And he was like, well, I didn't want him to think that he wasn't doing his job properly. I thought this is how massages go. So I just couldn't say anything to him. And she said, so you'd rather have him hurt you than you hurt his feelings. And he was like, exactly.
When I was young, I remember asking my dad, what does my name, Sunita, mean? And he said, oh, in Sanskrit, Sunita means good. And so mostly I lived up to that. I was known for being an obedient daughter and student. So I did what I was told. I did my homework the way that they wanted me to and expected. I even had my hair cut the way my parents insisted.
And these were the messages I received, not just from my family, but from the community and from teachers, is to be good, to be polite, to obey, not to question authority. And mostly I lived up to that.
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