Author: akshay
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The beauty of first MBBS
Here's what we learn in the first year of MBBS… Touch any point on your body, we're gonna be able to tell what structures lie underneath (anatomy), what reactions occur in the microscopic picture beneath it (biochem) and what the implication of these reactions are, in other parts of the body (physiology)…that is knowing every…
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Internal’s turn
The very first internal exam's gonna happen on 21st, 22nd and 23rd of November, as it was put up in biochem lab.New general secretary, coordinating secretary and magazine secretary talked to us after dissection (during which we disarticulated the lower limb, bathing in fat and blood doing the adduction) mentioning the magazine (of 10-11 batch)…
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Treating the disease and not the symptoms
If you had the power to change one thing about India, what'd you choose? Corruption, inequality, injustice are all issues that need to be given a death knell as soon as possible. But our journey towards a better India needs a start from elsewhere – better education."But we already have quality schools!?" is the question…
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The Peace in being Immensely Busy
To waste not a second, being busy like a bee, was always my dream. But in medical college it's the rule and not exception that you be busy, always. And I'm finding a strange feel of order and happiness in it. You wake up, do the record work for the day, preview the day's class,…
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Diwali
Didn't imagine I'd be so jobless at home. Diwali holidays – Tuesday and Thursday in Karnataka, Wednesday in Keralacelebrated my brother's birthday with him on Sunday. Got in a Bangalore bus at around 8 am on Monday from the great Mattanur bus stand. Got down at ramaswamy circle at 10 minutes to 1 played cricket…
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Charity begins at hostel
Indeed lower limb is thicker than the upper limb..and there's the genital blocking our way all the time. But what needs to be done has already been done – draw the first blood..err..i mean first formalin.. Skipping breakfast has now become a life saving habit. And a few seniors have joined Divya Deepa volunteer force…
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Racing ahead
The upper limb's done. We being the dissection of lower limb on Monday. But don't ask me about how much I've learned. If it was easy to learn, it'd not have been so tough to get into.Setting that aside, the week went pretty quick. Celebrated Arya's birthday on Wednesday.And as it happens often it took…
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Postings
The exhibition duties, and the management of it, taught me one thing. When we start getting postings next year, i should never exchange my duty with someone who has their duty before mine.Then, that Samsung phone chargers are very hard to find lying around, unlike Nokia's Mysore zoo is big! 3 km to walk, i…
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Subtle interplays
If a diver using oxygen cylinder to breathe under water comes back to the surface very quickly holding his breath, the air inside his lungs will expand rapidly due to the lower pressure near the surface, rupture pulmonary veins and enter the circulation causing a fatal condition called air embolism. This could happen even from…
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Attitude directed elsewhere
Purushottam sir and the contagious nature of moods! Went to Divya Deepa trust's school – Kaliyuva mane on Sunday.