Carelessness

In this post i am going to cite two patients that i saw recently.
The first patient is a middle aged lady with three months of fever and cough. Her clinical findings were significant for crepitations in the whole of the right hemi-thorax and bronchial breath sounds in the mammary and supra-scapular regions. Her Chest X-ray [...]

Compassion

Yesterday, I saw a movie – ‘Vasool Raja’ (Vasool – Collecting, Raja – King) by actor Padmashree Kamalahasan. The story is a good entertainer. The theme of the story shows doctors as feelingless human beings who see patients as ‘cases’ (Like a case of typhoid, Carcinoma stomach…) instead of human beings with an illness. The [...]

Things beyond our control

Inhaled corticosteroids are prescribed for asthma (It is the standard of therapy for anything worse than a mild asthma). Many a time these patients come with acute worsening especially during winter seasons. Some of them would have lapsed on taking the inhaled steroids. I used to reprimand them quiet a lot. My assumption was, if [...]

Time to hog food again

Today is Vinayaka Chaturthi. This is the day when Lord Vinayaka was supposed to have been born. For who do not know about Vinayaka, he is the god with a human body and an elephant head. One good thing about any Hindu festival is you get to hog-up good food. The problem is with diabetics, [...]

Are we humane ?

This is about a kid dieing because of failure to be treated. What has happened is just probably one of the alarm bells of how inhumane we are becoming. Whether the doctors could have saved him (Especially when the bite is unknown) of course does not really matter. What matters is, he had to die [...]

Amavasai

Yesterday (11/9/2007) was a special day for my stomach. For that matter any Hindu’s stomach. The reason being Amavasai.
Amavasai is the no moon (When there is no moon in the night) day of any month. This is considered auspicious according to Hindus. It is considered that the soul of our ancestors visit our houses to [...]

my son’s test

Today was another one of the regular days except that my wife had to teach my 8 year old son second language for the upcoming term test. It is so frustrating to watch with multiple thoughts going in my head. One is with such short attention span he has, how my wife is going to [...]

Hello world!

My first step into the brave new world of blogging.
Helped by some able friends.
I’m sure there will be more to come.