Oliver Sacks is one of the many contemporary physicians who I have looked up to as a source of motivation and inspiration. Much before I read (or watched) Awakenings, I was accidentally introduced to the body of work by Sacks. While browsing through the volumes neatly stacked on the racks of a quaint bookshop in … Continue reading A Sacksophile Writes: Revisiting the Works of Oliver Sacks
Tag: neurology
West Nile Virus and Polio-like Syndromes: An Emerging Threat
While the whole nation has been gripped by a media-induced frenzy about the fatal effects of the so-called "litchi virus" (do not get me started on this! This issue deserves a whole post of its own!), another virus-related news has quietly slipped beneath the radars of the cumulative hysteria. This article in the Times of India … Continue reading West Nile Virus and Polio-like Syndromes: An Emerging Threat
Scepticemia 