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“Medicine is my lawful, wedded wife, and literature is my mistress”
– Russian physician-writer, Anton Chelrhov
This blog is where I share my perspectives on various issues and not just related to medicine but not necessarily in exclusion to it. I’m a free thinker & compulsive writer. I’m an surgeon by profession but an artist at heart. I shall share my perspectives, my poems, my life lessons, my experiences with my patients and with the world at large in this little corner of cyberspace.
Murdered in a Pandemic
Crowds gather at the election rallies and religious gatherings. Politicians showing their hypocrisy by encouraging both, While demonizing you for getting afflicted. In any case, You were not killed by a virus but murdered by the state!
2021: A New Year- New Possibilities
2020 has been an incredible year. For sure it has been a tough year but in all the difficult periods there are the big life lessons. The paranoia of the early days of the pandemic has given way to a little breathing space now. This pandemic has been a pause button on our lives and…
The Twitter-Storm in a Kashaya (Herbal Tea) Cup
People often forget that food is also made up of chemicals- each of which have their own toxicity levels. Enough of the regular garden variety chocolate can kill a mid sized dog by poisoning. Many of these supposedly “immunity boosting” ingredients- Turmeric, Fenugreek (Methi) seeds, chawanprash, basil(Tulsi), Aloe Vera when consumed in large quantities can…
When will Artificial Intelligence replace Human Doctors?
AI robots will be complementary to human doctors and won’t be a zero-sum game for a long time to come. AIs will help us reduce our mistakes, decrease our workload, make us work more sane hours and in turn manage our work-life balance- but at least in the foreseeable future they aren’t going to replace…
Why I love what I do?
I wasn’t a natural at being a doctor and struggled a little bit in medical school. Medical school was sometimes confusing and intimidating. I picked up empathy along the way and learnt to be compassionate to other people. I found out that I loved the difference that I bought to others and got better at…
The Alina Project- TVM’s first steps into Vietnam!
The Vision Mission (TVM) travelled to Vietnam in July-August, 2019. TVM was collaborating with Alina Vision, USA to set up a Medical Retina Service and Oculoplastics service at Alina’s first eye hospital in Hanoi, Vietnam. TVM’s goals as an organisation has been at capacity building, sustainability and access to sub-speciality eye care in under-served areas…
The Sri Lanka Diaries- TVM footprints in 2016
I was part of a team of surgeons who went to Northern Sri Lanka to operate on poor patients there who couldn’t afford eye surgery. We went to a hospital in Vavuniya which was the biggest hospital in the northern province to do the surgeries. This region was the most affected by the 25 year old civil…
Project Netra 2017: The Vision Mission’s India story
We started this present trip with a CME in Bhubaneshwar, then moved to Bhawanipatna to witness the launch of the collaboration between Trilochan and SBI foundation to make the Kalahandi district of western Odhisha cataract blind free by 2021. We then moved to Sambalpur to commence Project Netra 2017. This year TVM is supporting TN…
Can LED Screens Damage Our Eyesight?
As of now not really! There are various media outlets trying to bring a new spin to the story of LED lighting and eyes. LED lighting has improved efficiency as well as reduced power consumption. I feel this need to be seen objectively supported by actual evidence and not the hypothesis of scientists in a…
Finding Superman: Changing a prolific surgeon to a social entrepreneur
December, 2015 This was my second trip to Sambalpur, a nondescript town-city in western Odhisha. I was introduced to The Vision Mission (TVM) by my colleague, Dr. Jayant Iyer when I was working in Singapore. He along with his friends (Avinash Jayaraman and Jason Lee) had established a non-profit organization to help under served areas in…
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