“[The doctors] just see the disease, not me as a person,” a diabetic patient lamented to Dr. Rajeev Kurapati, Medical Director of Integrative Oncology at St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Kentucky.
The patient, alias Walter, had been in the hospital for a few weeks from complications of diabetes, including kidney failure, infections in his lower limbs, and near blindness from problems in his nerves.
Apart from Kurapati, Walter had many medical specialists to tackle each of his symptoms. This included a cardiologist, a nephrologist, and an infection specialist.
Dr. Rajeev Kurapati (Courtesy of Dr. Rajeev Kurapati)
Initially admitted to the hospital as a rather pleasant man in his middle ages, Walter was soon leached of his charms as insomnia—another complication of his chronic disease—emerged and became another contending ailment….