Dr. Ramakanta

Typhoid Mary

Can you force a person who is perfectly healthy to be operated because others wanted it ? You have no evidence. She is healthy and she refuses. It happened in 1908. Mary Mallon was a plump Irish lady. She was a good COOK and had a RICH clientele. Unfortunately, she had a curse. Wherever sheContinue reading “Typhoid Mary”

Priceless Moments

( Excerpt from the last letter of an young girl who died of Ewing Sarcoma at the tender age of 27.) 1. How many good times have I wasted brooding, because I didn’t like the COLOR of my new NAIL polish ?Oh! I could have spent them on so many HAPPY THINGS of my lifeContinue reading “Priceless Moments”

My second letter to my son

To my son It is already one year since you have left the high school when I wrote you my first letter. You look so much stressed at this tender age. I presume the cause of your strain is the coming JEE MAIN.And you are in a hurry to clear it in this year itself.Continue reading “My second letter to my son”

What is Bird Flu ?

Birds have bird flu and we humans have human flu.It’s difficult for humans to catch bird flu and the vice versa as well. ( If at all, you closely observe birds, like your pet dogs, you will find birds also regularly suffer from common cold (flu) with running eyes, drooling and loose green stool everyContinue reading “What is Bird Flu ?”

Naaman the Leper

..Doctors are magnanimous as long as they remain poor…Once they charge money they become eyesore. [ Are health care providers God incarnate ?A person who sells mobile data (Jio) can be a billionaire and we are proud. Another who supplies goods ( Jeff Bezos) can be the richest person we don’t mind. Yet when itContinue reading “Naaman the Leper”