Thursday, 31 May 2018

दरख़्त वाला भूत

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क्या आपका कभी किसी भूत से पाला पड़ा है? मेरा पड़ा है. या यूँ कहिये, मेरे कुछ हमसफ़र थे, जिन्हे ऐसा ही अनुभव हुआ था. पेश है एक व्यक्तिगत संस्...
Saturday, 13 January 2018

Doctors decry the proposed National Medical Commission Bill's proposal

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Few years ago, a cardiologist denounced a suggestion in a Phone in programme of a TV channel, when asked whether there was any truth that ...
Sunday, 13 June 2010

Read this if you are a doctor practicing in India

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:: The story of an uncooperative child "..... Oh, why is the baby crying? Can't you hold her properly ?", yelled the doct...
Monday, 12 October 2009

World arthritis day

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:: Today is world arthritis day. Arthritis is a very common ailment. And its a chronic one. So there are bound to be dissatisfaction with wh...
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Thursday, 1 October 2009

Nasir Khan's shadow

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:: Few days ago, I watched a man called Nasir Khan who acted in a Hindi Movie called "shadow". The interesting part is while ther...
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Friday, 25 September 2009

Diet and health: The “ill effects” of jackfruit

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:: Origin of medical myths Superstitions prevail in Science. At least sometimes. It is believed that Pythagoras sacrificed an animal to appe...
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009

Doctor, how long will it take....

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:: What do you think, how long will it take .... (A) me to die? (B) me to turn blind? (C) my regurgitation to progress from moderate to s...
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Monday, 21 September 2009

Depressed due to illness? Shine like a comet!

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:: In my previous post, I mentioned a doctor who was misdiagnosed to have leukemia. A reader might wonder what is so inspiring about this tr...
Friday, 18 September 2009

He lived with a disease he never had...

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:: Year 1986, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal. I had just moved in one of the hostels as a second year MBBS student. Located adjacent to the ...
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Thursday, 17 September 2009

One of their kind

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:: While Mr. George Abraham, the founder of WBCC, himself fancied being a fast bowler like Dennis Lillee, here is another man. Born In Zimba...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Look, who is playing cricket!

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:: I had an opportunity to meet George in 1998 at Venu Eye Institute. Senior consultant Dr. Anil Tara had introduced us. He called him Georg...
Friday, 11 September 2009

With my chronic ailment, should I really marry…? Why not?

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:: That is what my answer to the question asked by my patient is. To my mind Rahul should be more open, if not overtly looking to hunt a par...
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Sunday, 6 September 2009

Doctor, with my chronic ailment, should I really marry…?

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:: Rahul (name changed) is 27, a tall, handsome guy with hazel colored iris pigment. Self employed and runs a placement agency. He was a ju...
Saturday, 5 September 2009

Can herbal drugs evolve to be integrated into modern medicine?

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:: This is the story of a wounded soldier named Hussein Khan. Critically injured, down with high grade fever and thirsty, he decided to drin...
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Wednesday, 2 September 2009

Short cuts in medical research: a fallout

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:: Few years ago, I hospital in Noida , UP, India had a press release about a "new procedure" that rejuvenated a diseased heart. ...
Sunday, 30 August 2009

Spurious researchers try to evade "intrusion"

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:: Year 1996. Place: Eye department of a leading hospital in Hyderabad I had been to the twin cities to participate in an Ocular Immunology ...
Saturday, 29 August 2009

No short cuts in medicine

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:: In a previous post, I mentioned the rigorous process a candidate drug is subjected to before it gets a nod by drug authorities. India ...

An eye opener for a glaucoma patient

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:: Mrs. Shreya Pathak (name changed) is a known patient of primary open angle glaucoma and high blood pressure. She had been on drugs and ...
Thursday, 27 August 2009

What do you need to know about drug research.

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:: As a patient of any chronic ailment you need to know that every medicine that reaches you comes through a strenuous process that begins ...
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009

Do wonder drugs really exist?

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.. Alternative medicines thrive on "hopelessness" Let us recall my brave HIV positive patient discussed in the following story...
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Sunday, 23 August 2009

Rheumatoid arthritis: Can you really avoid deformities

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A lady known to have Rheumatoid arthritis for 9 years came to me after an interval of four years. She had already developed a severe form o...
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Thursday, 20 August 2009

Retinitis pigmentosa ( I ) : Visually challenged employ sighted ones

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Nearly fifteen years ago I came across an elderly man with a young son who had an ocular ailment called "Retinitis pigmentosa (RP)...
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Tuesday, 18 August 2009

Quadriplegic wins right to die

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An Aussie quadriplegic has won his right to die in peace with dignity. This chap has had two accidents that rendered him in his present shap...
Monday, 17 August 2009

Chronic ailments: What is the role of alternative therapies ( I )

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Hi, Do alternative therapies really work? Dr. Christian Bernard the South African cardiologist, who pioneered the first heart transplantatio...
Wednesday, 12 August 2009

Text to Speech: Is that a potential solution to the academic pursuit of the visually challenged students?

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Hi Thanks Odiogo ! Thanks David for the information on the "Text to Speech" engines. As an Ophthalmologist I get to meet sever...
Sunday, 9 August 2009

Myths in medicine: an anecdote

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It was a sultry day in Rapar, a small taluka in far off Kuchch where I had been sent as an Ophthalmologist about fourteen years ago. A small...
Thursday, 30 July 2009

Odiogo, Odiogo....

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....how do you do this? Few years ago I had an opportunity to visit the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped (NIVH), Dehradun, In...
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Tuesday, 28 July 2009

IAS aspirant gets a cochlear implant

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A guy clears the prelims of the Indian Administrative Services - the IAS . N ot once, thrice, gets rejected twice and gets a costly cochlea...
Sunday, 19 July 2009

Can you accomplish this?

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He happened to consult me for some eye problem. He did not have any in his normal eye. The abnormal eye had drifted downwards due to a damag...
Friday, 3 July 2009

Health insurance for senior citizens

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A Going through the details of any insurance policy can be a daunting and boring task for many. Scrutinizing a health insurance policy can b...
Friday, 26 June 2009

Why did you go away....

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I recall Rashmi as a playful, chubby baby of one & half years age brought to my clinic sometimes in December 2000. Accompanied by her pa...
Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Colour blindness.... Will it affect my driving and job prospects?

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A senior ophthalmologist reading my blog, brought out the fact I had missed out writing on colour blindness . I would use this opportunity...
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Visual requirements for driving in India and elsewhere

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Few months have passed since an Indian immigrant in Canada walked into my clinic. He had been denied a driving license by the Canadian autho...
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