Author: akshay
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Joining Vivekananda Memorial Hospital, Saragur
I joined Vivekananda Memorial Hospital as a Resident Medical Officer, on 18th April, Tuesday, around noon. VMH is a secondary care hospital started by Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement at Saragur which is a place almost 1.5 hours by bus from Mysore, but just one hour by private vehicles. There is a one year course called…
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Losing an Ear-Tip
“Which is the most important part of a stethoscope?” asked the Professor. “The diaphragm”, “the tube”, “the earplugs”, came answers from students. “No. The most important part of a stethoscope is the one between the two earpieces”, said the Professor with a smile. 1 It was a regular “free” day in Orthopaedics. That means you…
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Disillusionment
After graduation, almost everyone I know went away to different so called “coaching centres” for getting into a preferable post graduation seat. I was uncomfortable with the way health education works at colleges and at “coaching centres”. So, I went away to Malki hoping to figure out everything. Daktre was waiting with a vane to…
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Bye Bye Mysore
An incredible journey has come to its natural end. I started this blog more than 5 years back while waiting in college for my admission procedures. The things that transpired in these 2048 days, I could never have imagined. The journey doesn’t end here though. I am going to continue writing about the funniest things…
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What’s up?
It’s been a busy 9 months of internship. So busy that I had to take a casual leave to update this blog. No, just kidding. The CL was just a coincidence. (I couldn’t finish this post on that day. I’m now writing this in the free time at psychiatry department). It is just my incredible…
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Why would Kashmir want to stay with India when they don’t even get access to internet like the rest of Indians?
India is brutally restricting access to internet in Kashmir. And like marital rape, suppressing a citizen’s basic rights this way is legal in India. There are complex geopolitical issues in Kashmir. But, what wrong did internet in Kashmir do to be treated like trade with an enemy state? There is a class of Indians who…
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Haridwar
This notorious place. Do anything you want, but never eat a thing from here. They are probably taking all their water from the E-coli filled dirty sacred holy river Ganga. We had no plan to eat at the bank of the river, but it rained and we got trapped near a place and we ate…
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Mussoorie
We reached Mussoorie around 4 o’clock. Although we saw the youth hostel on the way we weren’t sure if they provided accommodation and it was a bit far from all the places we wanted to trek to. At the bus stand an agent approached us asking if we wanted rooms and then led us to…
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Dehradun
The Delhi Dehradun express stops for long time at various places and reaches Dehradun by 9 in the morning. We woke up by the time the train reached Haridwar and saw dried Ganga on the way. At Dehradun railway station, you can walk outside to the Dehradun bus stand where there are half hourly buses…
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Surgery – the rush
Wednesday: OPD My first OPD. Showered and left early to the ward to finish work there and be at the OPD on time. It was a continuous rush of patients from 9 o’clock till the time PG asked me to go have lunch. There was everything – Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs), healing and non-healing wounds…