Author Archives: Dr. Ramakanta

How young a young doctor can be ? The world of Super- Duper Specialization in modern medicine.… After completing 5+1 years in a medical college you add a MBBS degree. Then the street vendor while balancing one kg potatoes on a scale for you, innocuously asks ,”sir, What is your speciality ?”..So you go backContinue reading “Super Duper Specialization”

At least that’s what the school teacher told the mother of Gillian Lynne as she was summoned to the principal’s. Today we know Gillian Lynne as one of the most famous English dancer, choreographer, actress, and theatre-television director. In 2018, The new London Theatre was renamed in honor of her as the Gillian Lynne Theatre.Continue reading “The hyperactive, good for nothing child”

.How young a young doctor can be ? After completing 5+1 years you add a MBBS degree. Then the street vendor while balancing one kg potatoes on a scale innocuously asks you,”sir, what is your speciality ?” So you study 3 more years to add MD (anaesthesiology) to your name for the street vendor’s sake.Continue reading “Ultra-Super Specialization”

[Plasmodium falciparum was a quiet ancient organism. Recent biomolecular research has dated their existense to 100,000 years ago.]…70,000 years ago, we Homo Sapiens were roaming in Africa and Mediterranean and were just preparing to migrate Eastward in search of a warmer climates of the tropics. To Asia minor, India, Australia. Rest of the world. YourContinue reading “Malaria and Hemoglobinopathy”

Sometimes I wonder why didn’t the olive oil in the Big Bazar has an expiry date ? While the tooth paste I eat can live for 3 years, the betadine cream I apply externally should expire within 2 years ? Why are the MNCs too eager to display the expiry date as boldly as possible?Continue reading “The Phoebus Cartel”