Author: akshay
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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…
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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…
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Why I Write
Subtracting the dates, I have been blogging for more than 9 years as of now. That is not a big number considering how blogging was mainstream years before I began. Neither have I written a lot by quantity. But I have been writing. I do not remember if I had any specific idea in mind…