Author: akshay
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Why Do Children Fall Ill?
I had lunch and finished packing my bags at 3. Then I spent 5 minutes saying goodbye to my roommate which is when I told him that I'm going to North India for a trip. Of course I had to tell him at the last moment, because apparently last month he had gone to the…
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OBG practical and Internship Dreams
Woohoo. Finally. I already wrote about the first three practical exams. OBG was a breeze. Went early to the special (examination) ward. Had a 24 year old lady with a previous Caesarean section as my Obstetrics case. And a 65 year old with procidentia uterus as the gynaecology case. I told the examiners that the…
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Medicine, Paediatrics, Surgery practicals.
Oh, the last three days! If I had a moment for myself, I would have posted this one a bit earlier. I am usually not very tensed before any exam. But being the last set of exams, and losing 6 months if I don’t get through gave me some horrible horrible dreams on the night…
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Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Paediatrics Theory question papers
Obstetrics The trend of poor specificity in answers continued. Gynaecology Paediatrics Overall, there’s very good chances that I won’t make it in one theory paper at least. Can’t figure out which one.
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Surgery all papers
Surgery was an altogether different experience This is Surgery (general) paper, part 1 This is orthopaedics paper And this is Surgery part 2 which was the ultimate cram-test
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General Medicine Paper 2
Everything went by so fast and I have no idea how. Heart failure, again!
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General Medicine Paper 1; final year, final exam, finally!
That’s the question paper, folks. Except the 10 markers, everything was random. Finally, after years of apparent toil, the final exam starts. I was cramming yesterday and today morning (exam was from 2-5 pm). Heart failure was taught by Dr Srinivas in those 7 day extra classes. Pneumonia, I read today morning. So was NASH…
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The Reason Why You Cannot Convince Anyone To Switch To FOSS
How many times have you talked about your favorite free software to a friend and they appeared totally convinced about how cool it is, but just won’t stop using their proprietary tool? Firefox is cool. But Chrome’s market share keeps increasing. XMPP and IRC are both cool. But they’re both dying. LibreOffice can do everything…
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[jog-journal] Running With A Smile
I went jogging in the evening today. My main goal today was to run slow with a smile on the face. To look at others and show my smile. I remember reading a long article earlier today about what goes inside the mind of a runner. I know what goes through. “Is my heart beating…
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Who is Killing Our Bloggers?
How do you discover content to read, on the Web? Do you have a specific set of websites that you visit every day? Do you have a single website that you visit every day and people there fill you in with links? Do the pages that you read online mostly come from your friends? Do…