Tag Archive | Life in Medicine
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win."
Have you heard of Sanjit Bunker Roy? NO? Of course. Your nose mjust have been buried in some rotten MCQ book like mine. Go read this then. STAT! One of the prestigious Time 100 in 2010, he is one rebel I would love to emulate. Check out this TED talk of his. [Thanks to Dr. […]
…maybe your life just sucks?
I don’t know why but this cartoon by the FANTASTIC Abstruse Goose reminded me of my life.
House MD 8×01: Twenty Vicodin
So, like I said in my last post, House is back, and with a bang. The new season starts off on a bleak note with House serving out the last few days in his 8 month old sentence, and being on the verge of getting paroled. After the rather weird season finale for season 7, […]
52 Hertz: Loneliness, No More!
I was reminded of this story that I had read in the NY Times an age ago. its about a whale that meanders the waters of the world, all alone. Unlike others of his ilk, this whale has been uniquely disadvantaged. Here is what one desperately touched blogger had to say about it: Unlike all […]
The Diaspora Dilemma
Foreword: Well, those of my readers who do not know me personally (I am talking to you two there, thanks for coming to read it!) will not be able to understand where this foreword is coming from, but it is meant for a person who is very close to my heart. One of my best […]
Anesthetists’ Hymn
Alright, with all the hate and fear and negative stuff going around for the last few days, I decided to can it. Come on folks, let’s move on already and let peace reign. And with that let me provide, for your entertainment, the Anesthetists’ Hymn, a parody of “Total Eclipse of the Heart” – a […]
When the Shit Hit the Pan!
WhiteCoat’s Call Room is one of my most favorite blogs and I just went all ROTFLMAO when I read this: How Betadine Almost Got Me Arrested. Now is he becoming the Dick Feynman of Medicine, eh? And a pic of the poopy brilliance:
The Post Where I Finally Get Political
So I was discussing about the contents of this document forwarded to me by a mentor of mine and I was surprised when my friend suddenly said that she did not think that goold, ol’ materialistic me was so left leaning! That was when I realized that I had to get this post out there. […]
Harry Potter 7 Part II: The End of An Era in My Life
Ever since 1999, when I landed my hands on the first Potter book, I have been a fan: and today, I caught the whole anthology come to its final conclusion. It seems like this was not just the end of the most significant bit of literature in the last couple of decades, but also, a […]
The Tyranny of Diagnosis
For a profession that primarily concentrates on the well being of the human being, we seem to be very disconnected with the suffering person. We hide behind the facades of cases/bed no./patient ID or sometimes, even diagnoses/differential diagnoses to depersonalize the man who is suffering the disease. We end up diagnosing the disease, treating the […]
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) […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Common Test?
This post was written on an old blog of mine when the common entrance test for the medical under and post graduation levels were being mulled. Now it seems the big shots have reached a final decision and there seems to be a consensus on making a united, single exam in the form of the […]
Another Brick in the Wall
This is a repost from my old blog. Something happened today morning to remind me of the fact that as medical students we go through some of the worst times in our lives, and it never pays to give up in the struggle for life. I am trying to mask the identities and changing the […]
Valentine’s Day Special: John Hunter
In this special series, I will try to head up to Valentine’s Day with a series of posts to celebrate the day of love with posts not quite so pink and rosey. And I will start with the volatile Scottish surgeon: John Hunter! Yeah. You read that right! Read on, to understand why I chose […]
Students Forever? No Longer!
I am an avid reader of the Health Policy and Reform blog of the NEJM and believe that they should enable the commenting system on the site to allow bidirectional interaction, much like BMJ and its Rapid Responses. So, this week’s NEJM came with an article which piqued me greatly: Residents: Workers or Students in […]
COLDkata
I live and work in Kolkata, one of the metropolitan cities in India. Now, of all the things my city is famous for, cold winters ain’t one. And this winter, well, if it gets any colder, there’ll be snow, I think. Without going into the climate-debate, I would rather concentrate on saying how this affects […]
Blog Buddies, Ahoy!
So, the wonderful people over at wordpress.com make life a joy. Now, with their newest venture, they have set my imagination on fire. They propose hooking up with someone in the blogoverse in order to motivate one another to achieve their goals. How sweet is that? Especially titillating is the fact that it might lead […]
Junior Doctors’ Symposium: The Abstract
So, at the end of this month, there is going to be a competitive symposium for the junior doctors (Interns, House staffs, Residents) at my medical school. The topic is urrgghhh… OBESITY! Not the most interesting in the world, I am afraid. The subtopics are: Epidemiology of Obesity Pathophysiology of Obesity Assessment of Obesity Medical […]
It Is That Time of the Year Again: Part – III: Resolutions
Alrighty then. It is the last week of the year and time to sit down to look back, see what I’ve done wrong, what I’ve done right and what might be expected in the days ahead. And its also time to sit down and make some resolutions. I always end up procrastinating the resolution making […]
It’s That Time of the Year Again: Part I – Christmas
It is that time of the year again: Christmas. It seems like the whole city around me has gone down with Christmas fever, like every other year. Wherever I turn I am met with large glaring lights, signs and sounds: all is well, joy to the world, Christmas is come. And such stuff. Now I […]
PIMP #1
So, following my gallant explanation of what the business of pimping implies in reference to medical schools here, it is finally, time to bring out the first pimp from the… wherever the pimps stay… and this is not that difficult a question, I just put it up because I enjoyed answering, and learning from this […]
An Introduction to Medical Pimping
This is an introduction to a new series of posts which I hope I shall be able to keep going despite my busy (read: lazy) schedule in life: Medical Pimping. Now, this particular post has been heavily influenced by the folks over at Life in the Fast Lane who blogged about the art and science of […]
Of Classes, Confusions and Consternation
[Meaningless personal rant below, read at your own risk!] So, I have been away from the webverse for the last couple of days, trying to sort out some of the weird issues that plague my life. I have been attending some classes, didactic lectures, etc in order to hone my skills prior to the upcoming […]
Two Sides of the Same Coin
There has been a lot of noise on the interwebs lately centering the almost prophetic death of two of the most popular (at least posthumously) faces of breast cancer sufferers. Kim Tinkham and Elizabeth Edwards. Whilst the former concentrated on alternative medical therapies, stressing on the need for alkalinizing the body to cure cancer which […]
Break Ke Baad (After the Break)
Oh, no, not the movie. I was just talking about me! I am back after a break. A break in course of which I attended a workshop, realized the futility of life, did no blogging, got depressed after managing to alienate people close to me, and of course, did nothing to improve my slacking schedule. […]
Joining the Cargo Cult
In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they’ve arranged to imitate things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for […]
