Although we know well that nothing in this world is certain… no one would have expected that Dr. San Jaiyotsin, a surgeon who has treated more than two thousand heart disease patients, would find an answer on a new path… by turning to health promotion as a “family medicine specialist” at the age of 56!!!!
With over 20 years of experience as a cardiologist, he not only gained treatment experience… but also realized that “we are doing something that does not solve the real problem. We have to keep doing it again because after heart surgery, ten or twenty years later, the disease progresses with artery blockage again, and surgery is needed once more.” And with this perspective!! it raised the question “Will we spend the rest of our lives doing something that only temporarily solves the problem until we die?”
Because of this changed attitude… combined with his own onset of coronary artery disease!! “If I don’t start doing something, in the future I might have to lie on the operating table for someone else to perform heart surgery on me.” And this… was the starting point that made Dr. San decide to quit heart surgery and study family medicine… before taking the exam to become a specialist in this field. “Think about it, I took the exam in my fifties. If I didn’t really like it, I wouldn’t have done it.”
After passing the first test of the exam… it was time to share knowledge with the public. Dr. San not only opened a health promotion clinic to address patients’ health problems individually but also wrote books, created the website health.co.th, and blogged at visitdrsant.blogspot.com to provide knowledge or health education as the main tool for health promotion and disease prevention.
With the determination to “be a doctor specializing in health promotion and disease prevention,” Dr. San initiated a health care program through lifestyle adjustment called Total Lifestyle Modification (TLM) to provide Thais with the right way of living… leading to good health free from chronic diseases!!!
