Month: March 2019
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What Can an Individual Do?
Forwarding a message I received from Dr Dharav Shah who is creating a wave of change in youngsters across India making them abstaining from the first puff and the first drink so they lead a healthy and happy life without the poisons we love. Do watch the video. I had tears only once, but your…
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Reviving community medicine in India: The need to perform our primary role | International Journal of Medicine and Public Health
Link to original article: http://ijmedph.org/article/217 This is a very thought provoking article I came across yesterday. It says that the actual role of a community medicine specialist is as a family doctor in primary health centres. My college had a "preventive and social medicine" department. Now it all makes sense. If you look at community…
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Interactive textbook with adaptive level of complexity
This is an idea I've been having since a long time. I think it is relatively easy to implement as well. We need textbooks like we have online maps. Textbooks that give you an overview first and then let you zoom in to any part and get more and more details. The deeper we go…
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Making Time
Yesterday Swathi and I visited Anivar and Joshina and their kids. It has been at least 5 months since we started planning this visit. And we finally made time for it, yesterday. The moment we stepped inside Noonu and Ilan were on us – showing their toys, making us read story books, laughing at jokes,…
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Why is Benzylpenicillin called Penicillin G and Phenoxymethylpenicillin Penicillin V?
This one took a lot of searching. My initial hunch was that the G and the V stood for amino acids. G for Glycine and V for Valine. I thought, maybe, if these amino acids were not substituents, at least they would be the precursors involved in synthesis of Penicillins. I had also heard the…
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JLS: SJG Ayurvedic College, Koppal
On 6th March, Wednesday JeevaRaksha team did the first JLS (JeevaRaksha Life Support) course in an Ayurvedic college in Karnataka at SJG Ayurvedic College, Koppal. I took Hampi express on the night of fifth and reached by about 9 in the morning and the workshop had already started by the time I reached the venue.…