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 […]
…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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
What’s Normal for A Medical Student?
Thanks to Dr. Shock, I stumbled across this wonderful pic: http://twitter.com/#!/DrShock/status/58217594305511425 Kinda reminds me of Michelle Au’s wonderful cartoon, the 12 types of medical students, and especially, this one: I need […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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! […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
In A Lighter Vein
Action Potential, an Australian Medical Student Blogger, speaks of her first blood draw and the North Korea-South Korea standoff (with USA in the fray: where there is war, there is USA!) in […]
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. […]
