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6 Months of Blogging: Looking Back, and Forward
So I guess I am now no longer the new kid on the blog, eh? Considering the fact that I have been writing consistently for half-a-year, I maybe considered to have wet my feet more than adequately! But, to be honest, the journey did not start here. My now archived blog RXtar, which I started […]
Happy Birthday WordPress!
My favorite blogging platform turns 8 today. Happy birthday WordPress. Although I have been blogging here for less than even 8 months, wordpress has me irreversibly in love. The beautiful blogging system, the easy user interface, the friendly developer community, and over and above all, a community of bloggers who are as vibrant and active […]
@Doctor_V vs @mommy_doctor: Storm in a #Tweetcup or #HCSM Debate
This is a scary position I am going to take. Contradicting someone of Dr. Brian Vartabedian’s stature is bound to have some repercussions: I hope they are not too profound! Also, hat tip to the awesom @scanman for coming up with the “storm in a tweetcup” comment. I am using it! Anyways. So here goes nothing! […]
Vampire #FAIL
I am usually above posting such juvenile, tumblr-ey stuff (ahem, I use Tumblr for that, its much easier to steal content in the name of reblogging out there!), but this was just too good to pass up! I have expressed my impatience with the Twilight trilogy before, and this just adds more firepower to my […]
The Upside Down Pram: A Sudden Encounter in Kolkata
A couple of days ago I was out on a social do with my parents and it was getting late when we started out from the event. It was a weekend midnight, and Kolkata also happened to be hosting a major cricket tie. Thus, on the way back, the roads were understandable deserted – a […]
New Look for Google’s Blogger
Google Blogger has been around for quite some time and is supposedly the largest weblogging system around. The hype around wordpress is however much larger. As a WP.com blogger myself, I have found this service to be pretty reliable and comfortable. There are literally tons of people blogging about wordpress vs blogger out there, but […]
Hat Tip: ScienceBase
David Bradley is one of those people who I look at and wonder when they get some sleep. I have been reading his blog, Sciencebase, for sometime and I must say I enjoyed reading it a lot. Also, just recently, I signed up for email alerts of a new and interesting blog, called Sciencetext, which […]
Vagus Journalis: My New Science3point0 Blog
Thanks to the amazing people over at Science3point0, I have been able to set up my new science blog over there. However, the focus of writing will remain on this blog. The new blog, which I am calling Vagus Journalis, is intended to have short and brief posts indicating which journal articles of general medical […]
Elliot Krane: Pain is A Disease
“I’m a Pediatrician and an Anesthesiologist, so I put children to sleep for a living. And I’m an academic, so I put audiences to sleep for free…” You know you are in for the best 8-minute talk when it begins thus. Elliot Krane is a pain management specialist who makes a crucial statement: “Pain is […]
Prophylactic Adrenaline for Anti Snake Venom Induced Anaphylaxis
I had just started working in Critical Care when we got informed that a patient was wheeled into the ER in a state of severe hypotensive shock. It was a person who had traveled to his village home for the weekend and in course of his stay there, had got bitten by a snake. The […]
Tasting A New Open Access Journal: Flavours
Although it sounds like the name of a multi-cuisine eatery owned by an imaginatively impaired person, Flavour is the name of a new Journal being launched by the BioMed Central folks. The introduction email says: The recent explosion of molecular gastronomy has brought the worlds of the laboratory and the kitchen closer together, with science […]
CDC: Learning from TV Shows–Preventing the Zombie Apocalypse
So, there was this TV Show, The Walking Dead, which spoke of a Zombie Apocalypse befalling the earth, destroying most of human civilization. The show follows a group of survivors who try to find their way to survival. And, towards the end of the season that was airing, they go to the CDC and there […]
The New Look WordPress: #JustWrite!
One of the reasons why I absolutely love wordpress.com as a blogging platform (aside from the fact that they make hosting a painless affair) is the fact that the developers are continuously working to make it a better place. Together with the users, the developers have nurtured a vibrant community which encourages the art of […]
Poetry Duels!
So, there’s this awesomely cool medblogger who has decided to write all the posts in rhyme. And well, if someone takes up such a great step, you got to show them some love! So here I am, with a poetic reply to his poetic post. No, neither one of us are going to win any […]
USMLE to Scrap 2 Digit Score
One of the great mysteries of the USMLE was the dichotomous scoring system. Usually, an examinee would be given 2 scores, one a 2 digit score, with the minimum cut off fixed at 75, and a maximum of 99. And the other, a 3 digit score, which was more representative of the overall performance of […]
Friday the 13th
Nah, I don’t mean this: I meant this: Following the highest ever polling rates, West Bengal is poised on the brink of a political equivalent of a knock out game. This time around, the opposition coalition, led by Mamata Banerjee of Trinamool Congress, is expecting to topple the ruling leftist coalition, led by Buddhadeb Bhattacharya […]
Justifying Infidelity
If you can write and sing this, then, hell yeah, infidelity is justified. The Beatles: Norwegian Wood I have always been a big Beatles aficionado and this song suddenly struck a chord with me. I have been feeling pretty bogged down, feeling trapped a bit, and suddenly, John’s words come to my rescue. I stumbled […]
Winds of Change or A Damp Squib, Again?
In a bid to keep my blog politically neutral (which of course, as a person I am not), I usually do not write about politicking. It is a strange business which makes for strange bedfellows and honestly, sometimes, I just don’t get it. That said, I have been having the most political morning in quite […]
Ganguly: The Comeback Man
F**k you SRK. Bah. Got that off my chest. Anyways. Now to discuss the match. This pic from ESPN CricInfo more or less summarizes the events of the day: Following the fall of Robin Uthappa, this emotional fan breached the security and invaded the pitch to throw himself at the feet of Dada. Oh, by […]
Workshop on Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Manipal University has been one of the leaders in bringing research to Indian Medical Students, so it was no surprise that they were initiating a novel workshop on Mesenchymal Stem Cell with hands on skill development. Slated to be held in Bangalore in July, this seems like a wonderful way to wade into the future […]
Rabindranath: The God of Bong Things
Today marks the sesquicentennial of India’s Nobel laureate, poet, philosopher, multifaceted genius, Rabindranath Thakur. There hardly seems to be a facet of our lives which has not been touched by his works, his words. He was prophetic in announcing in 1896, at the age of only 35 years: “A hundred years from today,Who are you, […]
Collaboration Becomes Easier as WP.com Allows Sharing Google Docs
I have expressed my intense love affair with wordpress.com in several posts in this blog. Consider this one more added to that genre. Big whoop, I like these guys. They make my life easier. So here is the deal: in their latest announcement, the WordPress Happiness Engineers have said that they are allowing the access […]
AIIMSing for the Best
A weak pun, I know, forgive me, I have an exam in a few hours for which I am grossly underprepared! Whilst I sincerely wish they were going to ask me questions like this: I am pretty sure I will be handling questions like these instead: Now if only I could be even a portion […]
Gayle Storm Pummels Punjab
Not unlike the way he cracked the Kolkata Knights’ armor and won the match with gay-le abandon! Watch his dance of destruction!
The BMJ Group Awards, 2011
Every year, the BMJ Group gives away awards to illustrious individuals and organizations working towards ensuring that we live in a better world. While all the segments are very closely fought and feature some of the world’s most sterling physicians and physician-led organizations, one segment which I closely follow is the junior doctor of the […]
Its Fingerpluckin’ Good!
World, stop talking about Bieber and listen to this kid go: MI Theme Admittedly, this ain’t the most difficult thing to strum on a guitar, but look at the way the li’l dude gets immersed in his thing. Its as if the guitar is just an extension of his being. This is some seriously good […]
Psychiatric Carols
I do not usually repost internet memes, God knows we get enough of that on our SPAM folders without us all adding to the burden on each of our blogs, but then I came across this somewhere, don’t exactly remember where, so please forgive me, and I decided to repost it here. Its funny, if […]
ReBlog from ASMJ
This is an article which got published from a post I wrote here! Science is a journey of going from facts to the truth. Often, in this journey, the steps are difficult to trace and get replaced by a religio-socio-cultural context appropriate for a specific ethno-geographical background. This has traditionally been described as the Cave […]
The 20% Time Rule
For understanding the purport of the rant that is about to follow, you need to take a look at this 20-odd minute long TED talk by Google Gods Sergey Brin and Larry Page first: So now that you are caught up with the 20% time rule, let the rant commence! <rant> This talk is from […]
