Blissful Life

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  • Anatomy paper 1 RS 2 RGUHS 2013 December question paper

    My roommate says this one was easy too.

  • Pathology Paper 1 Final exam RS2, RS3 2013 RGUHS 2nd year

    An easy one

  • 1st year 1st internal Anatomy Physiology Biochemistry Theory paper 2013

    Biochemistry paper

    Anatomy paper

    Physiology paper

    Courtesy – my roommate

  • What Doctors Don’t Get to Study in Medical School by BM Hegde

    Disclaimer: I realize that I could be putting myself in great academic danger by publishing this post while studying medicine in the same state of the honoured author. But whoever decides to influence my very open professors and make me fail in my exams, also please read this response by nirmukta to one of his articles, to realize that I'm not the only person who feels like there's stone in the rice, waiting to be bitten.

    Ah! What an interesting title and how easy a way to grab the attention of a medical student tired of reading pharmacology.

    Within minutes of starting to read this book, I could smell honest but blind religiosity.

    With all due respect to the degrees the author possesses, this book isn't worth buying. But you should definitely read it once, to understand the workings of a conspiracy theorist's mind.

    If you read with a truly open mind, you will be able to ignore the blatant errors of facts or practicality and focus on the drive home message, which is "this world is so bad, let us build a newer world"

    I'll go with a chapter by chapter review for the sake of not sounding rude.

    Preface, introduction, forward: Apparently modern medicine is a lie and we should be imparting a more holistic treatment to people.

    Chapter 2: Born again science
    Scientific mumbo jumbo and a display of erroneous understanding of statistics. Uses the word "non-linear" again and again to suggest that the human body cannot be explained mechanistically. Finally invokes analogies from physics to suggest that modern medicine is flat earth and ayurveda is quantum leap.

    Chapter 3: Man and his problems
    Uses evolution to suggest that since modern medicine is recent, we should go back to ayurveda

    Chapter 4: human body's intelligence
    Uses physiology to suggest that sex workers won't catch AIDS, that eating mud is good for health, that treating diseases is bad.
    [Can't say I don't agree to this. I totally hate taking medicine for cold, fever, diarrhoea, etc. But I so am afraid of sinusitis, otitis media, dysentery, etc]

    Chapter 5: Social Health Promotion
    This is the first useful chapter in this book. The author rightly identifies that diseases need a social cure, and goes on to propose an arguably practical solution: Let villages have a club where they discuss everything relevant to them and find solutions all by themselves without outside intervention.
    The author also adds ten commandments for a healthy discussion. But I have no idea if the author thinks that all the villagers are going to read his commandments and follow them. And I'm not sure if he's aware of something called "Panchayati Raj system"

    Chapter 6: Healthcare reaching the unreached
    Here the author introduces us to his own classification of diseases according to which only 10% of diseases are the ones that need treatment. Rest of them could do with changes in the lifestyle.
    I'm alright with this as long as the author lets me know where he got that "10%" statistic from.

    Further there are 18 commandments for India laid out starting from "comprehensive development of villages" and ending at "economic empowerment of masses".
    This is where I started understanding the problem with this book. It is well meant. It is sincerely written. But it says things that we all know.

    Chapter 7: Power of Prayer
    More ideas about how everyone should be tolerant, how there should be tranquillity.

    Chapter 8: The quiet art of medicine
    Must read if you are a medical student. In this chapter, the author gives us the actual wisdom he has accumulated as a fine doctor. He talks about sympathy, imperturbability, and "aequanimitas", and how medicine should not be made a business, about learning, never stopping learning, about loving your alma mater, about knowing alternate medical practices, etc. If this chapter was the whole book, I'd whole heartedly have asked you to read this book.

    Chapter 9: The fine art of living
    This one too. The author pours out all his wisdom living life, and is a fine lesson in work ethics.

    Chapter 10: Doctor's dilemma
    A small chapter bashing modern medicine again.

    Chapter 11: Joys and Sorrows
    Some oft-repeated stress management tips.

    Chapter 12: Deschooling Medical education in India
    Here's where I actually understood that not much of research has been put into writing this book. Why? Because of Lord Macaulay urban legend being the basis of this chapter. (Also because I find a lot of proofreading mistakes, like too many exaggeration marks!)

    As far as I've understood from their vision 2015, MCI is trying hard to reform the medical education scenario in India. The author is putting forth his ideas based on Western system, which is also good. Maybe, the MCI should read this chapter.

    Chapter 13: Science and Scientism
    This is where the author explicitly falls into the trap of not understanding what science is and what Scientism is. By putting forth a few useless paragraphs that talks about life on Mars, about validity of Big Bang theory, about Einstein plagiarizing from his wife, about quantum mechanics the author has taken away all my trust. And then he mentions that RCTs are unreliable. And then he confuses the potential for statistics to be abused with statistics being fake.

    And I don't want to read the rest of the book and waste my beautiful evening.

  • MAA Utsav 13

    Unfortunately I won't be attending it this year. Nevertheless, here is the event schedule

  • If We Could Start From the End

    “In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people’s home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!” ~Woody Allen

    In my next year I want to spend time backwards. I start off with an exam and get that out of the way. Then I study hard and understand the entire syllabus. After that, I go to the wards and see the patients. And have discussions with my friends about various ailments. And then end the year with “honeymoon” term.

    Ah!

    In retrospect, it’s so very stupid that we have our exams at the very end. As if the examination is the end. It is supposed to be just the means to the end. And for that, it’s best kept somewhere towards the middle of the year. First half, you need to have lessons, lectures and learning. Then you will have exam. And then you go to the patients.

    Well, don’t read the above paragraph.

    What I essentially feel now is that quintessential wonder. “Why can’t I study 3 months before exams the way I study 3 days before exams?”

    There is no answer. Anyhow. Learning is a very nice habit. Going back to it.

  • I am Alive, yet

    The paucity in posting was because of two very important things.
    1) I got other things to do. Lot of friends, lot of things happening. I will write them down here in no particular order.

    I got broadband: This happened only about a month ago. And counter-intutively, it didn’t lead me to posting more here 😛 Because by the time I had gotten broadband, I’d forgotten this blog. Anyhow, the broadband connection is 2-8 unlimited, BSNL Combo plan which costs me Rs 701 per month inclusive of everything. That means I have a longer day because I now don’t sleep at 9 right after dinner, but instead at 3 right after the free usage begins and I’ve queued things for download.

    I quit facebook.
    A lot of things had been happening in facebook. There was a lot of groups, a lot of people I was following. Even the MMC&RI confessions page which was fun to read. But I realized that I didn’t have any time to waste on reading all those useless things from the endless wall. And deactivated facebook.

    Digital Library became gaming hub:
    This was essentially after Sammscrithi’13. There was “reign of games” which had NFS, and counter strike and fifa being played multiplayer in the first floor of auditorium. Essentially, those games reached our digital library which had by then became defunct as a youtube browsing center because probably we didn’t pay the bills. So, an hour of counter strike after dinner, can make you alert for three hours of pathology.

    Among other things, I created a bot for whatsapp, hike was released, bbm was released, anyhow 2k11 whatsapp group had to be split into two – main group and extended group.

    Bhavika became class representative along with Abhilash Mayya, replacing Fadnis and Pratibha. The voting for Bhavika was particularly interesting with the votes being equal for her and Sri Raksha at the end. And interestingly Saraswathi hadn’t voted till then. But she couldn’t vote after that because then everyone would know whom she voted for. So, we called up everyone who was absent on that day and finally it was Bhavika who would become academic secretary after Anusha.

    I have been consistently scoring low in most exams, because, I have been giving no time at all to studying. Which means, I can’t continue this post to write about exams, hostel, college, my ICMR project, or anything. Anyhow, I will try to post about each of them when I’m bored studying. Bye bye for the morning.

  • Research Primer – 15/5/13

  • Graduation day, socials, ethnic day

    While skin posting reached its relieving end, without me taking out even the magnifying glass in that cubicle with 50 people packed inside, three events occurred on subsequent days.

    Graduation day:
    2k7 batch went out with summer dreams 2013. Dr Antony, Dr Abhas, doctors everywhere. They made a beautiful video about their life in MMC and danced to their contentment while we had good food and slumbered.

    Socials:
    I’m yet to talk with the juniors about what happened there. But in the hostel there was definitely innovative hazing methods.

    Ethnic day:
    Now this was fun. Thanks to more than a week of bugging hard work by class representatives and others Sammilan, though it was never called so, went so well at hotel ruchi. I was the DJ playing the right songs at the right times except when I muted the sound for 15 seconds just when the sexy lady part of Gangnam style was coming up.

    Everything went so well – titles, games, food, ramp walk. Fadnis and Deepthi became the ethnic couple.

    And the dance hall was simply superb with the closed room heating things up. People sweating and dancing and enjoying the night in ways that never were.

    BTW, the MMC&RI confessions page has started on Facebook.
    And it’s OBG posting for me from today.

  • Weird Dream

    I am in Mysore Junction Railway station at 8 AM, trying to cross the track to the first platform. But there’s a local train which is blocking my way, so I decide to get inside and get outside at the other side. But as soon as I get inside, the doors close and I’m trapped, along with two girls and an old man who also wanted to go out. They’re waiting for the next stop to get down, while I get to know that the train goes to Kuthuparambu (which is very close to my home, comes after Mattanur, the place I got to get down for my house) and reaches there at 10:30. Since it was Saturday, I thought I’d go home and come back on Monday, and fall asleep. When I woke up, I see that the train is already at Mattanur, and instead of going towards Kuthuparambu, it turns towards my place. I’m extremely happy and want to let everyone know…

    And then I wake up, prone, on the examination table in the hall. Aquib’s pointing towards loose stools on the bed and laughing at me, while removing his gloves. And then the professor starts taking class, about rectal examination. And that’s when I realize what’s happened. I call Sneha and ask her whether they did a rectal examination on me while I was sleeping. She said “Yes”. And bam I slapped her. I was so angry that when Hema ma’am came and said they thought I’d not mind, I just didn’t listen, but went to the professor who was teaching and said him “They did rectal examination without my permission while I was sleeping. That’s absolutely against medical ethics. And there’s even pain in my rectum now”. And the next thing I see is a PG coming inside with sheets of paper and taking statements from Raziq and all others about what happened. And that’s when I feel sad about it and later I go ask Sneha and Swathi why they didn’t ask my permission. They say they didn’t ask Nandu permission in the previous class, and then I remember I had missed the previous class. And I was feeling so sorry for everything…

    And then I actually wake up, prone, on my bed in Room #28.

    Dream within a dream. Double Dream. False Awakening. Not Inception.