Month: August 2017
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My Obsession with Free Knowledge
I have a peculiar attachment with free knowledge – the concept that knowledge should be free of conditions and unencumbered by geographical, economic, cultural, and any other avoidable barriers. This often puts me in a position where I strangely reject certain well meant advices simultaneously appearing stupid and arrogant to others. For example, a good…
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Fellowship in HIV Medicine – Interview
A day before independence day, after the long wait of more than three months, the FHM interview took place at SVYM office. I was on duty and was checking on a newborn with tachypnea (probably transient tachypnea of newborn) when they called me upstairs for the interview. I had others fill in for me and…
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Do Cats Get HIV?
Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt is a surgical technique used in colouring Blue Babies pink. Last week we had a baby who was referred for cardiac evaluation come back with a report saying she had Tetralogy of Fallot and needs a BT shunt. The parents had not gotten it done yet. Still, the baby wasn’t blue. Because she…
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CPR – To Terminate Or Not To – That is the Question
Unlike with many other resolutions I figured out that today is the first day of the month only after resolving to be productive today. As a part of that I woke up about an hour early and started seeing my babies in ground floor general ward. (Oh, did I forget to mention, I’m in charge…