Blissful Life

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  • Happy New Year!

    The year’s first mass bunk happened on the last day of 2011. Saturday. Up to 15 people were reported to have attended the classes.
    And as expected, it was celebration throughout the midnight.
    The mess hall turned into a dance ball.
    The TV was the DJ.
    Then, burning the hostel. Palm leaves, fire-logs, kerosene – inflammable combination.
    Wishing everyone around the fire.
    All networks were jammed at the right time.

    +I learned the art of pulling out an all nighter. To finish the gross anatomy record. It was fun. Theophylline (instead of the preferred caffeine) and Taylor Swift’s Love Story.

    Then, yeah, Dr Asha, physiology dept., has agreed to give us all the presentations she uses in the class.Well, that could be called a stride towards being like MIT.

    I guess my brain needs some sleep. ZZZ…

  • Brain in the Bag

    Friday was an awesome day at the dissection lab. Where we turned carpenters. Saw, axo, knife, chisel, and what not. Breaking open the skull, we took out the brain. The soft, really palpable tissue, in our hands, finally proving that brain, does, exist.

    I came home for Christmas.

  • Hernia Ne Bana Di Life

    This post dedicated to Shubham, who is right here messaging some of the new friends he got, thanks to the inguinal hernia he had and which was operated y'day morning by Dr S K Balakrishna.

    A surgery! What a way to start medical life!

    Students' special ward, is the place. 11, 12.

    And the fantastic thing about it is that he's now able to walk for short distances by this time I'm posting this.

    Bactoclav (amoxycillin and potassium clavulanate injection) is the life saving antibiotic. And thanks to interns and pgs, we've stocked enough of those.

    Food, is not a problem for him (he's got the tube delivery direct to blood)
    but it is, for us. So lemme go and have dinner.

  • MAA Utsav 2011 end of session 1

    Lunch time and i came back to hostel. No more live commentary. Thanks for tuning in.
    There's amusement in the afternoon, and two classes 2mro.

  • MAA Utsav 2011 – Dr Prashanth G R

    PET CT an introduction
    consultant of nuclear medicine says the trend is moving towards molecular basis
    it uses radio active isotopes?

    Shows increased enzymatic activity. And cancer cells have increased glycolysis, etc

    decisions are based on anato-metabolic imaging

    this can be taken to the heart too and brain!

  • MAA Utsav 2011 – Dr M S Vishveshwara

    From deep x-ray to imrt

    from current to current (state of art treatment)
    change is the only constant thing in life

    so, we should learn new things, change.

    3 idiots dialogue.

    To diagnose we use kilo volts, but to treat it takes mega volts. And radiation is no longer delivered using radio active substances, but x-ray

    medical linear accelerator
    rotates around patient to deliver from multiple angles

    earlier the dose could be only given through a square or rectangle that could also include the normal tissue.
    Then, it became possible to give custom shapes.

    Then, intensity modulated radiation therapy. Dose required, is dose delivered.
    Computer controlled multileaf collimater

    cancers- head, neck, breast, prostrate, etc are all treated.

    The media should be handled carefully
    knowledge is power

    and the video that explains the 360 degree treatment, except that it didn't explain how it comes from below the person – through the bed?

  • MAA Utsav 2011 – Dr Radhesh

    MR guided HIFU

    high intensity focused ultrasound.
    Necrosis of fibroids without surgery

    leiomyoma – uterine fibroid is non malignant but very incapacitating.
    Ok. So there is mri, ultra sound directed on the prone patient inside the machine. Painless, non-invasive, targeted, non-anesthetic, ends in 3 hours.

    The hifu heats the tumor to 60 degrees, it undergoes necrosis and get absorbed gradually. Reduced symptoms in 1 month.

    So after voxel by voxel sonication, there's 80%+ non perfused volume.

    Scars don't have blood, so it could burn. But there are scar patch beams

    better quality of life!

  • MAA Utsav 2011 Dr Mahesh B H

    The last post was made a bit too quick. This year on, the orators are being given a silver medallion for the first time. And citation as normal.

    Surgical approach to complex spinal deformity

    this doctor was all India rank 1 in pg entrance!

    MS ortho from aiims!

    Non academic first 2 minutes. Experience at college. Late comer for 9 o'clock ward, copies during internal.

    Scoliosis. Even Hrithwik roshan had it.

    Stop the growth at convex side, allow concave to grow.

    Skeletal maturity, if you wait for it after the first presentation, it's gross negligence.

    Shows several cases. Operation is pure mechanics. Put steel, screws all over, straighten the spine.

    And cervical pedical screws introduced even before the west has started using it!

    So, again and again. All spinal deformities are best addressed as early as possible.

    Catch them young.
    Jisarspine@gmail.com

  • MAA Utsav 2011 Dr Nagarathna

    The first speech, about yoga and its effect. I missed the first part because i went for free breakfast 😀
    in between, bad news for Divya Deepa trust. The plan for a stall in this meet didn't succeed because we hadn't asked for permission in time.

    Ok. Back to yoga.
    Says, yoga is better than normal exercise routine in increasing HDL.

    Yoga for cancer!
    Only pilot studies as of now. Hospital stay, anxiety, depression reduces during therapy.
    cortisol level increased.

    Aging.
    They say yoga doing people can sleep better than normal exercisers

    back pain
    all the same story.
    Yoga group better than normal exercise group.

    I wish i could actually see how the experiments were done, what exercise did the non-yoga group do?

    Says, techniques from sages have enormous healing potential that requires very little chemical interference.

  • MAA Utsav 2011 – Dr B S Ajaykumar

    Here's the summary of the first speech i listened to in MAA Utsav.

    Dr AjayKumar is an oncologist and founder of hcg cancer treatment

    the statistics, he says, say that there are only 1 million new cancer cases in India while it's 1.5 in usa. This is obviously error of enumeration.
    And it's exemplified in the 'arogyashree' program of Andhra Pradesh where bpl people are given free health care (even tertiary)and this has led to an increasing number of patients crowding at all leading hospitals with cancer, cardiac or ortho care. The question is, where had these people been going before the inception of this particular program?
    And then, it could be misused in a society like India's.
    And then there's the health care system of Switzerland which's based on compulsory health insurance.

    To finish, he talked about how India is now just following the west in medical methodology and not innovating anymore like she used to, before British came along. Why not we lead!?