Year: 2018
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What Next?
I am privileged. I was born into a higher middle class family in Kerala. I have not been discriminated against based on my family’s religion/caste/colour/whatever. I am male. My parents are both alive and work in public sector. I even had access to internet at a very early age. I was allowed and assisted to…
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Way Forward
On 30th of June, SVYM organized a one day session on careers after MBBS at Vivekananda Memorial Hospital. Interns and/or final year students from Mysore Medical College, Bangalore Medical College, Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences, JSS Medical College Mysore were among the ones who were in the audience. After the SVYM video, it began with…
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First PEP – Days 7, 8, 9, 10, and so on…
Well, I lost count. I didn’t miss a single tab. But I have, as usual, missed on writing the experience. There are indeed some highlights. First, a house surgeon and his friend from my college came all the way to Nugu and our hospital after reading my posts. I guess I put enough philosophy in…
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First PEP – Days 4, 5, 6
Days fly by as usual. It’s already day 6 and I’m wondering what I did on day 5. (I slept all day). Day 4 – Monday, 30th April I had general OPD duty. In essence I was jobless almost the entire day. I sat in the injection room and saw some 10 patients. This morning…
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First PEP – Days 1, 2, 3
After having done the “Perfectly Messy Prefect” series and “Jog Journal” series, I have now gotten the opportunity to start a new series – on Post Exposure Prophylaxis. Let’s start with the good news. I put a central line in a patient (that’s my first time after MBBS and the first time I was confidently…