S.P.E.A.K. | Society for Promotion of Ethical and Affordable Healthcare

Are you a diabetic?

Diabetes can damage your eyes, heart, kidney, nerves. Will you wait till the damage?

Social Advocacy

Members of speak drawn from various professions and groups will promote ethical and affordable healthcare through write ups, seminars and social media, government and social actions or any other ways.

Stress can maim & kill

Stress can give you a feeling of being sick, fatigued, incapable and being helpless/worthless.

Lose flab, Add Life

Obesity brings Many ailments that last life long. Hight blood pressure, Heart diseases, Diabetes.

Can you stay young?

It's not about wrinkle creams, plastic surgery, or injections to make you look younger.

Patient Education

write ups by eminent doctors in different specialties. Their advice will help to seek opinion/second opinion of the relevant doctors/specialists to decide the best course of action/intervention in verious areas.

Welcome to S.P.E.A.K.

SPEAK , is a core group of doctors that will work for the promotion of ethical and affordable healthcare on the one hand and protect and preserve and restore the pristine glory of ‘noble medical profession’ on the other. Well intentioned doctors, social activists and benevolent workers from all other professionals are solicited to join SPEAK. The membership is free and one can enroll after filling the form on line, if one subscribes to the aims and objectives of SPEAK. It is only an educational site; consult your family doctor before taking a decision about your health or treatment choices.

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CPR (Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation)

Saving A Life In Few Minutes

Procedure to administer CPR along with animated illustrations

Anybody can and anybody should learn how to perform CPR (Cardiopulmonary resuscitation): According to the American Heart Association, a stunning 70% of Americans

What is Heart Failure?

Heart failure is a condition in which the heart isn't pumping as well as it should. While the term "heart failure" (also known as congestive heart failure) may sound like the heart has stopped working, that isn't actually the case. Still, heart failure is a serious condition that is often the end stage or final outcome of many cardiovascular conditions.

Why Perfectly Healthy People Get Heart Attacks

Today, we do have other noninvasive tests that are much better at predicting the likelihood of a future heart attack. A normal stress test does not mean there aren't any potentially lethal soft plaques growing inside the lining of your coronary arteries that could rupture and cause a heart attack at any time. All it means is that the blood flow to your heart was fine on the day you took the test. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean that the blood flow will still be fine tomorrow.

Your Heart and How It Works

The heart is not an inanimate pump: It is a living, dynamic community of millions of hardworking cells. Its job is to deliver blood to organs that would die without it. Blood contains oxygen and nutrients necessary for the functioning of every cell in the body, including heart cells.

Strategies to prevent heart disease

Don't smoke or use tobacco Exercise for about 30 minutes on most days of the week Eat a heart-healthy diet Maintain a healthy weight Get enough quality sleep

Treatment of High Blood Pressure: When Medicines Don’t Work

The treatment of high blood pressure can be very challenging, especially when medicines don't work. Normal blood pressure is when the systolic blood pressure is less than 120 mm Hg and the diastolic blood pressure is less than 80 mm Hg. Hypertension is defined as a consistent elevation of blood pressure.