Author: akshay
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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…
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Patient Inclusiveness in Rounds, Sex Between Serodiscordant Couples, Role-plays, PrEP, PEP, Anti-Retroviral Drugs, Drug Resistance, and what not!
This weekend was fun! I am grateful to a lot of people for it being so. It started Saturday morning with grand rounds, as usual. We were joined by Dr Ramakrishna Prasad (RK), Dr Ashoojit, and Dr Praneeth Sai. RK was leading the rounds. And he introduced the concept of patient/family centred rounds wherein we…
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Cough Up Some Patriotism, Please!
Many Indians have a “respect” problem. To them, respect is physical. Bowing down, touching feet, keeping legs uncrossed, standing up, using the words “sir” or “madam” in every sentence, and so on. On the other hand they also have great difficulty in respecting others’ time, personal space, or opinions. They are ignorant of their hypocrisy.…
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Documentation in Medical Records
I have documented my love of documentation elsewhere. I blog to document my life. I’m not perfect at it. Nobody ever can be. Because perfect documentation would take more time than the original act of knowing. Imagine. If you were documenting a visit to a nearby tourist attraction. How would you document it perfectly? You…
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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…