Volume 11 Issues 3 March, 2021 The Asian Medical Students Association (AMSA), India is a non-profit organization consisting of medical students’ from across the country who undertake social work, conduct quality research, and create interpersonal relationships in an attempt to shape the future of medical fraternity and health care provided. Under AMSA’s wings comes the […]
Month: January 2022
DOWN THE MEMORY LANE
Volume 11 Issues 3 March, 2021 It was a hot summer evening when I attended to this lady. I was pursuing postgraduate training in psychiatry and was about to complete first year of residency. Though it was the month of summer vacations for the institute, the time was rather busy for junior residents like me. […]
From the desk of Editor
Volume 11 Issues 3 March, 2021 The Bogeyman called Dissent In the recent ‘Toolkit case’, a climate change activist was charged with alleged incitement of violence in the ongoing farmer’s protest but was soon freed of the charges on grounds of sketchy and insufficient evidence. In all of the chaos, the key actor was unmistakably […]
“THE FALL HAS BEGUN”
Volume 11 Issues 4 April, 2021 There I stood, on the tallest buildingBuried in silence, I could speak to the windBusy men and women walk the streets of ManhattanBut from where I stood, I was far too distant. No happy faces bring joy to my soulNo cheering crowd mask my sorrowsI fought my battles, called […]
Can you cross the crosswords!!
Volume 11 Issues 4 April, 2021 Across 2. 27 year old man, is hospitalised following a violent attack on his computer screen with a cricket bat. Over the last year, he seems to think someone within his computer is monitoringhim and that videos he was seeing showed people laughing at him. Patient was diagnosed with […]
BENEFITS OF GROWING PLANTS IN THE CONTEXT OF PSYCHIATRIC CONDITIONS
Volume 11 Issues 4 April, 2021 Be it the beautiful trees that flower every year in our hospitals, the countless drugs derived from plants, or the Horatio’s Garden, a national charity of the United Kingdom, providing a promising livelihood for spinal injury patients, plants are scattered across the realms of modern medicine, helping tackle various […]
COVID 19 & THE BRAIN
Volume 11 Issues 4 April, 2021 The infection COVID-19 caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus was declared as a pandemic on 11 March 2020.The spread via droplet and small airborne particles by even asymptomatic individuals has largely been responsible for the scale of the pandemic. Beyond the common pulmonary manifestations, the virus is capable of multisystem […]
DOWN THE MEMORY LANE
Volume 11 Issues 4 April, 2021 Case conference presentation – A learning experience During our post-graduation days, we all had to present certain number of cases in our weekly academic teaching programme. When my turn came, I was given a diagnosed case of Bipolar Affective Disorder who was in depressive episode at that time. In […]
From the desk of Editor
Volume 11 Issues 4 April, 2021 Is the medical profession waning its allure? The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic put colossal pressure on the existing health care system of the country-massive cost paid by thousands of lives in a matter of weeks. The empty roads scream with sirens of an ambulances, chilling the spine with fear of […]
From the desk of Editor
Volume 11 Issues 5 May, 2021 BARBERSHOP – Hair raising revelations! One significant outcome of the COVID lockdown had been and continues to be men’s growing beards and outgrown hair. There is no end to their lamenting…no selfies, no video calls and doling out apologies for their new outlandish looks. Why is this sob story […]