When truth becomes necessarily stranger than fiction….

My encounter with Dr. Vikram Bhardwaj , the renowned ENT Specialist, MS, FHNS Noida, Delhi, Consultant, Jaypee Hospital:

I searched out Dr. Vikram Bhardwaj’s name

When truth becomes necessarily stranger than fiction….

My encounter with Dr. Vikram Bhardwaj , the renowned ENT Specialist, MS, FHNS Noida, Delhi, Consultant, Jaypee Hospital:

I searched out Dr. Vikram Bhardwaj’s name on the Google as one of the best ENT surgeons in Noida, Delhi. I desperately needed a second opinion about my condition which was diagnosed as a case of unilateral enlargement of the right tonsil by a doctor in my hometown, Berhampore , West Bengal. It was of course a disquieting news for me. The dreaded six letter disease, beginning with’ C’ began to haunt me since then.

On 22June, 2018, I came from Calcutta with my daughter to Delhi, where she lives with her family. On the same day in the evening , luckily I got a confirmation for an appointment with the doctor. Dr. Bhardwaj gave a patient hearing to my problem, had a close study of the CT Scan report I had brought with me and felt the affected area of my mouth. After having examined me thoroughly, he told me that it looked like a case of para pharyngeal tissues . He assured me that the mass was harmless one, because it appeared to be a deposit at the surface level and I did not need to worry. And most importantly, my case had nothing to do with the tonsil. However, he advised me to get an MRI done. The report revealed Dr. Bhardwaj’s diagnosis to be uncannily correct. The doctor stressed that a surgical solution was the only option open before me and I was to go under the scalpel for removal of the tumor.

I was admitted to Jaypee Hospital, Noida, one of the top notch hospitals in Delhi on July 3. On the same day Dr. Vikram Bhardwaj had his ‘ Old Team’ as he fondly calls his most trusted colleagues, pressed into service to perform the whole procedure. The renowned surgical oncologist Dr. Nitin Leekha was specially entrusted to perform the operation. In three hours since the operation, when I was sent to my bed I began to feel an incredible ‘ lightness of being’ and I attended a phone call from home and talked to my wife for five minutes without feeling any discomfort.

So this is my story dear readers and patients. My story began in fear, in a typically Chekhovian character’s grim melancholy that life is open ended, but ended in joy, among smiles again with my near and dear ones, knowing that I was cured completely of the disease which might have been dreadful had I not been treated by Dr. Vikram Bhardwaj at the right time. A doctor blessed with rare insight Dr. Bhardwaj is a gentleman personified. I wish him all the best.

By Nasir Ahmed

Berhampore, West Bengal

July 8, 2018