Archive | April 2011
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The Path to Online Peace: @DrVes
I was having a twonversation with Dr.Ves of Clinical Cases and Images blog fame, and I was wondering how he keeps doing so many things all at once, and it was then that he said: SM Q: "Don't you sleep?" A: I schedule blog posts (3 months in advance) and tweets (1-2 days in advance) […]
Introducing DermCOW
I would like to introduce this new weblog which is the by product of a discussion initiated by Dr. David Elpern of Cell2Soul fame. It is essentially an extension of the academic interest group called Tabula Rasa, which I initiated on Facebook. This new weblog seeks to discuss one Dermatology case every week (Now get […]
Time to Make Yourself Heard: West Bengal Polls
In my bid to keep the tone of my blog politically neutral, I shall try not to show any particular political proclivity in this post. A couple of my friends were rather reluctant when I called them and asked them how their electoral exercise went. In fact, they were rather apathetic about the whole exercise. […]
What Would You Want YOUR Doctor to Blog About?
Following a discussion on the WordPress.com Forums with some really helpful peeps (check out their blogs here and here), I had this idea of asking YOU, my reader(s) of what would be the stuff you would want your doctor to blog about. I am not saying I am gonna blog about them, but it would […]
On the Wrong Side of Right…
A terrific TED talk that I stumbled on Dr. Ravi’s Posterous blog. A great bit: “The way to succeed in life is to never make any mistakes: we learn these really bad lessons really well.” The thing that struck at me in this narrative, which I zoned out for a little bit at the end, […]
Just Like Olden Days
This was bound to happen sooner rather than later. A side with a decent spin department was bound to trap the Kolkata Knight Riders in their own trap. So Kochi, the new kids on the IPL block, were to face off with the old losers, KKR. Batting first, Kochi opened with long time KKR gunner, […]
Pulitzer for American Oncologist
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee, assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University and a staff cancer physician at Columbia University Medical Centre, has been awarded the Pulitzer prize in the general non fiction category for his book, “The Emperor of Maladies: A Biography of Cancer”. He is a graduate from Stanford University, University of Oxford and Harvard Medical […]
Chasing the Dragon: Then and Now
Not as colorful a post as the title might suggest, just random reblogging of video contents doing the rounds on the major music channels of India. The first one is the original bong snorting song back from the 1970s. The video is special mainly because you can see that John Lennon worked the Bollywood circuits […]
House M.D. 1.02: Denialism
Once you have read the plot, you will understand what I am going to deal with in this post. The key to understanding how House reached a diagnosis of SSPE in the adopted kid was in a funny encounter he had in the clinic. A yummy mummy had brought in her kid who she was […]
House M.D. Plot: 1.02 Paternity
The next episode happens to be one of my favorites because this is one of the few cases where House’s flights of diagnostic fancy is actually comprehensible to my mere intelligence. Also, there is this one thing I have to ask: in diagnosing SSPE, can we take a trans-pupillary retinal biopsy by poking in through […]
House M.D. 1.01: Pilot/Everybody Lies: Plot
Since I started writing this series anayzing House MD episodes blow by blow, I have received a few (considering the really few readers this blog has anyways, the definition of “a few” remains open to interpretation) requests to add some more details about the plots themselves so that people do not have to wrack their […]
A Royal Knightmare
Warne’s boys got walloped twice in as many days by an up and coming Kolkata Knight Rider. It was the home match for the KKR and the game was supposed to be a cliffhanger, especially given the pitch was a slow turner and the RR were led by none other than the maestro Shane Warne. […]
A Blog Prop: ER Jedi
So, I thought that you must read this blog. I enjoy reading his fluid writing and I guess you would too. His latest post set me thinking about how little the interns and medical students actually get to do in terms of real patient based procedures in the US of A. I have rarely learnt […]
Binayak Sen: The Truth Will Out
Binayak Sen has been granted bail by the Supreme Court of India. Victory for justice, human rights, truth. Dr Binayak Sen gets bail from Supreme Court.— Pritish Nandy (@PritishNandy) April 15, 2011 This is definitely good news! After so many months of duress and injustice, justice is served. Starting from incarceration under a draconian law […]
Saved by A Whisker!
Due to the sensitive nature of the issue concerned, I cannot reveal too much about this right now, but if I did not mention the fact that without a friend’s help, I would be totally at sea today, I will be betraying her contribution! Someday, when this thing is done and dusted, I will post […]
KKR: Knights of Resurrection
… or is it just serving old wine in a new bottle? Rajasthan Royals, under the sprightly looking Shane Warne posted a daunting looking total of 160 for the Knights to chase. It was never going to be an easy task given the fact that the Royals were a major threat on their homeground. But […]
Shubho Naboborsho: Happy Bengali New Year (1418)
This is the Bengali New Year. And here is wishing everyone a great, prosperous and happy new year. This is a day of hope and of joy. And of course, of great, great food! It is almost traditional in my home to celebrate the day with sumptuous lunch, the table being graced by numerous preparations […]
What the HELL!
Thank you Avrile Lavigne for articulating these words that have been playing on my mind for quite some time now… What the hell! Sometimes I feel like I am living my life in order to justify what other people are thinking of me. Ever get that nagging feeling that whatever you do never seems enough […]
Terrific Article on NOW@NEJM
The NOW @ NEJM blog has an awesome summary on the recent findings regarding the reduction in transmission of multi drug resistant bacteria in the ICU. Having worked the past year in the field, I realize the importance of this and hence say that this is a MUST READ! Go check it out asap!
What’s Normal for A Medical Student?
Thanks to Dr. Shock, I stumbled across this wonderful pic: Medical exam about medical students….picture http://t.co/0TTIisG— Walter van den Broek (@DrShock) April 13, 2011 Kinda reminds me of Michelle Au’s wonderful cartoon, the 12 types of medical students, and especially, this one: I need to be more like this guy in order to succeed […]
One More Reason To Love WordPress
My blog runs on wordpress.com and I must say that ever since I started here, I have been nothing but satisfied. I agree there are certain limitations and advanced stuff are available only after a payment, yet, it is a service that can be trusted. And that was proved once again by this post. There […]
Knowledge Compression and the Beauty of Data
I stumbled onto this fantastic Ted Talk given by “data detective” David McCandless via a Tweet on the @BMJ_latest account: Editorial brainstorm today with "data detective" David McCandless http://fb.me/Di4njr4o— BMJ (@bmj_latest) April 13, 2011 If you are like me and like crunching numbers or at least, trying to pry out hidden information from datasets, then […]
Reblood: Tasty Humans!
I stumbled on this blog from a link on Ben Good’s blog. It is a fascinating look into why mosquitoes behave the way they do, biting some people and leaving others at rest. I guess thus settles a lot of weird pseudoscientific claims that I have always been assaulted with whenever I complained of being […]
DNB = MD/MS? No Way!
The union health ministry has approved Medical Council of India‘s recommendation that bars Diplomate of National Board (DNB) degree-holders from teaching in medical colleges if they do not have the one-year additional teaching experience to make them on a par with MD/MS candidates. According to the new rule, DNB degree-holders, who have passed out from […]
House MD 1.01: Dignity in Death
This is the first post in the new series on the blog where I analyze House MD episodes based on the content and scientific interpretation of the same. It is going to be a difficult ride trying to analyze a crazy medical drama in true scientific light, but then again, who said that the things […]
Guest Post ~ Burning Through the Moolah: The Cost of USMLE for an IMG
This post was originally written by Arps, aka @Paediatrix on her excellent, but severely malnutritioned blog A(n)nals of an Idle Mind. She wrote these points several months ago, so it is quite likely that the costs have risen further, but this gives an excellent over view of the depths one’s pockets should have if one […]
Reviewing House MD: The Research Blogging Version
House MD, the popular TV show, has been the source of inflammatory issues surrounding medical ethics since the very first episode. I have always wondered how it is so popular, given that the real medical world resembles it in no ways. Yet, I must admit, I love watching the show and find myself to be […]
Redemption and a Few Worries for KKR
KKR have registered their first victory in the fourth season of the Indian Premier League against the somewhat bedraggled Deccan Chargers. Having scored an intimidating 163 on a slow, turning Eden pitch, it was expected that even with their mediocre spin bowlers, KKR would be able to make it through easily. And they did, eventually […]
Monkey Business
One of the wings of our home is being extended, and hence is open to all sorts of intruders, like this kind soul who decided to get comfy there and settle in for the day. We fed him bread, bananas and he was eager to pose for my cam! Random weirdness that made my day!
Cochrane Students’ Journal Club: An Introduction
Why this Journal Club?Three simple reasons.. To provide students with an opportunity to critically read literature outside their key area of study: To provide students with an opportunity to critically discuss scientific papers. To sensitize them to EBM. Okay. So this is how it goes..A clinical scenario asking a question on the potential management of […]
