8 months into blogging and finally, that bit of Googlized love that every domain owner craves for: Page Rank! I figured out that since it had been several days since I had […]
Google Page Rank Love!
Experimenting With Visual Learning Aids
I have been tinkering with visual learning tools, like mind maps and flow charts, because I find that it is not only more interesting to learn stuff this way, but also, I […]
Aaron Swartz and the Open Access Civil Disobedience
Aaron Swartz has been formally charged with a set of violations based on his hacking the MIT mainframe in order to get into JSTOR’s archives and downloading a large segment of JSTOR’s […]
Aaron Swartz: The Robbing Hood of Open Access?
Let me make it clear at the very outset that I am aware that AS is being indicted for hacking by the federal government on charges of “wire fraud, computer fraud”, etc […]
Reading Now…
On the cusp of starting the final segment, The House of Zock. Expect a review of this book soon!
Move Over Penis Captivus, Cello Scrotum and Guitar Nipple, we have TEXTER’S THUMB!
The medical mind has pondered and pondered on the existence of maladies of the body and mind which are real, and sometimes, not so real. While the cynics say that the latter […]
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 […]
Harry Potter and the Missing Trauma Cases
With the last Harry Potter movie in the piping (due for a global release this weekend), it is understandable if the Potter craze gets a little irked this time around. And in […]
We’re Speaking of Medicine on @PLoS!
Me and a colleague have published a post on the PLoS Blog Speaking of Medicine. Check it out here!
ASMJ-Elsevier Essay Writing Competition
Elsevier and Asian Students’ Medical Journal present an Essay Writing Competition on the topic “Defensive Medicine as a bane to healthcare”. We invite undergraduate and postgraduate students in any field of health […]
She’s Got The Looks: Google Blogger’s New Look!
A series of screen grabs to show what it looks like: 1. The Main Home Page: 2. The Blog Dashboard: 3. The Stats look cool: 4. A drop down list for the […]
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 […]
When Diseases Talk: Tuberculosis and Its Impression on Literature
A skiagram of the chest, showing miliary mottling, suggestive of Pulmonary Koch’s Disease in both lungs. there is also an opacity of the right upper lobe suggestive of active pulmonary disease. Patient […]
