Author: akshay

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…

Purushottam sir and the contagious nature of moods! Went to Divya Deepa trust's school – Kaliyuva mane on Sunday.

Busy. Not life stalling business, but yet.Been sleeping more than 8 hours since Abhivyakth. Tuesday was a holiday! Spent half of it at the ENT department. Learned basic Kannada grammar from Shamanth. Forgot half of it due to hypo practice. Got identity card from the office. And Arya was speaking Kannada to the ma'am sitting…

If i was a writer, I'd have rewritten the history of mankind, or may be i can do that even without being that writerHeewa meaning peace is the theme of the first day of Abhivyakth '11that's why every senior was wearing whitei participated in English extempore. My chit pick read "if i was a writer".…

One of the several things that's been keeping me busy for the last 2 days is not my cold. It's the inter college fest we're conducting for world peace – Abhivyakth '11.Beginning 23rd it will go on till 25th on which day the Dussehra medical exhibition begins. Madhura, the newly elected girl CR, was representing…

Abhivyakth '11 begins today.

The routine has started becoming, well, the routine.Dissection of the disarticulated arm is interesting. The cephalic vein which always used to scale my biceps. I finally saw it, draining some of its blood into the basilic vein through the median cubital, the vein that doctor pierced during my first and only blood donation. Muscle physiology…

Facebook has learned a lot from Google+ and changed, for the good of everyone because it'd have been so tough for a mass migration to occur.And so, the MMC&RI 2K11 group was created. I was restricted by the limited capabilities of my phone, so i used some help from uvais my old buddy, doing computer…

Discovered what makes a medical student happy – catching up with their portions.Entered the biochem lecture hall or rather lecture well for the first time to understand that there is so much to learn. Let's begin with carbohydrates. Apart from being energy source for the whole body there are a lot of functions for the…

I've found other medical student blogs online, and from my expectations when i visited those blogs I've realized what i should change about the posts in this blog. I'll try to make the posts in here less personal and more medical oriented. That way I'll concentrate more on learning and also prove informative to the…