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Blog | A Doctor's Rape-Murder And The Calcutta Chromosome
It has been 28 days since a 31-year-old doctor was found raped and murdered in a seminar hall of Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. And the City of Joy, known to be laid back and hopelessly romantic, is wide awake and angry.
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Blog | How 11 Doctors Failed To Diagnose My - A 'Fat' Woman's - Tumour
No doctor ever cared to look at my body as a whole, beyond the layer of fat that envelops it. No doctor cared to look at my brain and get it scanned. Until one did and found a tumour.
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Blog: If And When Your Doctor Makes Way For An i-Doctor
As I wake up with a start, burning like a furnace, iDAS (my digital assistant) calms me down. "Listen carefully A, I'm sorry to wake you up early, but you have a fever, and you need to do a few tests," he says in a confident voice.
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Blog: I'm A Doctor And This Is Why I Wrote My First Novel
This is a brutally honest yet refreshingly innocent and a very real account of a time gone by, before globalisation and digitisation, in two disparate societies, seen through the eyes of doctors and through the medium of Medicine.
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Blog: What Is The Point Of Being A Doctor If I Can't Treat My Own Mother?
I failed my mother. What was the point of being a doctor if I couldn't treat my own mother? Anger, sadness, denial all brewed inside me.
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Blog: I Was Covid "Positive". 24 Hours Later, Negative
On Thursday last, my cameraperson broke the news to me that he has tested positive for COVID-19. He had been tested before a minor surgical procedure; doctors have made it a rule in the time of coronavirus.
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Blog: India Inc Has To Speak Up To Save The Economy
India's abysmal GDP data is out and the Modi Sarkar's spin doctors are busy crunching numbers to giving it a rosier hue. They claim that if it hadn't been for seven days of the lockdown taking place in March, our GDP growth would have been a whole percentage point more than the 4.2 percent reported on Friday. Of course, there is some truth to this....
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Blog: I Am A Doctor In Mumbai. Please Forward And Receive WhatsApps With Care
When you see videos going viral of isolation wards and hospitals looking like graveyards, please know that they are also sources of recovery and rebirth for many people. Please forward WhatsApp messages responsibly.
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Blog: An Indian Doctor, Working In New York ER, Describes War Vs Coronavirus
The truth is that we don't know what lies ahead, and accepting that reality is perhaps the greatest challenge of all.
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Blog: Dying Alone Because Of Covid-19: A Doctor's View
We don't think of dying too often. But when we do, we hope that we pass away peacefully, surrounded by our family, friends and loved ones. However, the global pandemic of the COVID- 19 infection has challenged the very core of this thought.
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Blog: In Delhi's Air Pollution Emergency, What Changed And What Didn't
Declaring a "public health emergency" in Delhi and its neighbouring area is unprecedented. However, doctors like Dr Arvind Kumar of Lung Care Foundation, have been demanding this for some time now.
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Blog: She Was 11, With An Eating Disorder. It Took Her Mom To Figure It Out.
For nearly five months in late 2016 and early 2017, I had a sinking feeling that something was desperately wrong with my 10-year-old daughter, but the doctors and specialists we visited during that time didn't have any answers.
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Amitabh Bachchan's Doctors Are 'Fiddling Around With His Body' In Jodhpur
Amitabh Bachchan is in Jodhpur for Thugs Of Hindostan
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Blog: When Baby Is Handed To Parents In Plastic Bag - By An Oxford Doctor
Both doctors and patients will continue to be victims if the only response we can come up with are recrimination and finger-pointing.
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Reporter Writes His Own Obituary. It Makes For A Heartbreaking Read
"If you are reading this, that means that I am no longer here," wrote Mark Mooney in his obituary. Titled "My Last Byline," the American journalist's obituary also serves as the final post in his blog "Closing in on -30-", where he had been documenting his cancer battle. He started the blog last year after being told by doctors that he had only two...
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Blog | A Doctor's Rape-Murder And The Calcutta Chromosome
It has been 28 days since a 31-year-old doctor was found raped and murdered in a seminar hall of Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital. And the City of Joy, known to be laid back and hopelessly romantic, is wide awake and angry.
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Blog | How 11 Doctors Failed To Diagnose My - A 'Fat' Woman's - Tumour
No doctor ever cared to look at my body as a whole, beyond the layer of fat that envelops it. No doctor cared to look at my brain and get it scanned. Until one did and found a tumour.
-
Blog: If And When Your Doctor Makes Way For An i-Doctor
As I wake up with a start, burning like a furnace, iDAS (my digital assistant) calms me down. "Listen carefully A, I'm sorry to wake you up early, but you have a fever, and you need to do a few tests," he says in a confident voice.
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Blog: I'm A Doctor And This Is Why I Wrote My First Novel
This is a brutally honest yet refreshingly innocent and a very real account of a time gone by, before globalisation and digitisation, in two disparate societies, seen through the eyes of doctors and through the medium of Medicine.
-
Blog: What Is The Point Of Being A Doctor If I Can't Treat My Own Mother?
I failed my mother. What was the point of being a doctor if I couldn't treat my own mother? Anger, sadness, denial all brewed inside me.
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Blog: I Was Covid "Positive". 24 Hours Later, Negative
On Thursday last, my cameraperson broke the news to me that he has tested positive for COVID-19. He had been tested before a minor surgical procedure; doctors have made it a rule in the time of coronavirus.
-
Blog: India Inc Has To Speak Up To Save The Economy
India's abysmal GDP data is out and the Modi Sarkar's spin doctors are busy crunching numbers to giving it a rosier hue. They claim that if it hadn't been for seven days of the lockdown taking place in March, our GDP growth would have been a whole percentage point more than the 4.2 percent reported on Friday. Of course, there is some truth to this....
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Blog: I Am A Doctor In Mumbai. Please Forward And Receive WhatsApps With Care
When you see videos going viral of isolation wards and hospitals looking like graveyards, please know that they are also sources of recovery and rebirth for many people. Please forward WhatsApp messages responsibly.
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Blog: An Indian Doctor, Working In New York ER, Describes War Vs Coronavirus
The truth is that we don't know what lies ahead, and accepting that reality is perhaps the greatest challenge of all.
-
Blog: Dying Alone Because Of Covid-19: A Doctor's View
We don't think of dying too often. But when we do, we hope that we pass away peacefully, surrounded by our family, friends and loved ones. However, the global pandemic of the COVID- 19 infection has challenged the very core of this thought.
-
Blog: In Delhi's Air Pollution Emergency, What Changed And What Didn't
Declaring a "public health emergency" in Delhi and its neighbouring area is unprecedented. However, doctors like Dr Arvind Kumar of Lung Care Foundation, have been demanding this for some time now.
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Blog: She Was 11, With An Eating Disorder. It Took Her Mom To Figure It Out.
For nearly five months in late 2016 and early 2017, I had a sinking feeling that something was desperately wrong with my 10-year-old daughter, but the doctors and specialists we visited during that time didn't have any answers.
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Amitabh Bachchan's Doctors Are 'Fiddling Around With His Body' In Jodhpur
Amitabh Bachchan is in Jodhpur for Thugs Of Hindostan
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Blog: When Baby Is Handed To Parents In Plastic Bag - By An Oxford Doctor
Both doctors and patients will continue to be victims if the only response we can come up with are recrimination and finger-pointing.
-
Reporter Writes His Own Obituary. It Makes For A Heartbreaking Read
"If you are reading this, that means that I am no longer here," wrote Mark Mooney in his obituary. Titled "My Last Byline," the American journalist's obituary also serves as the final post in his blog "Closing in on -30-", where he had been documenting his cancer battle. He started the blog last year after being told by doctors that he had only two...
