Author: akshay
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Understanding the 1/5 Unconstitutionality of Aadhaar and What You Can Do About It Today
What is the difference between a monarchy and a democracy? I am Tipu Sultan. I rule the kingdom of Mysore. I ensure that my kingdom flourishes. In order to ensure that, I will make certain rules. I will punish those who do not follow the rules. Welcome to Mysore. We are the people of India.…
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Why Jacob Vadakkanchery’s Arrest is the Best Thing for Naturopathy, AYUSH, and the State
There is a lot of context needed here. To begin with, Jacob Vadakkanchery is a self-proclaimed healer naturopathist from Kerala who goes around asking people to believe that modern medicine is harmful for health. His arguments are so basic and trying to respond to an argument he raised had me writing a 1200 word blog…
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Healthcare With Smartphones?
Imagine this. You are a 36 year old lady working as maid in two houses, not supported by an alcoholic husband, and mother of two school going children. Your husband had a wart on his genitals and now you have it too. It is not particularly bothersome, but you are not sure what you should…
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Reimagining Kinnars (Hijras) as Health Workers for Reproductive & Sexual Health
Supreme court struck down section 377 a couple of days back. India is moving forward in the right direction. There is still a lot of work left to do. We see kinnars (hijras) working on roads asking people for money. They are “strange” humans in other people’s mind and when people look at them all…
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Bridges, bridges, everywhere
I’m a Bangalorean now. I have a metro card as well. For about a week now, I have been talking to a lot of people and reading (also searching for 1BHKs around IISc). Turns out there are not many secrets in answers to “What to do in life?” There were a few points that made…
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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…