Down the memory Lane

Volume 3 Issue 1 January, 2013 It’s important not to stereo type people I did my under graduation in Madurai Medical College, Madras University, and was a House Surgeon (intern) in the year 1970. In the medicine Unit, where I was posted, we were also asked to look after the ‘Prison Ward’. Not many of […]

Volume 2 Issue 12 December, 2012 Beyond Seniority, accepting difference of opinion For a brief period I worked in VHS, Madras (Chennai) before joining CMC Vellore for my Senior Housemanship. I worked in the newly started Renal Dialysis Unit and in the Ophthalmology Unit. The Chief in the latter was the very well known Dr. […]

Volume 2 Issue 11 November, 2012 Experience may reduce our mistakes but does not eliminate it!! A young college student was brought by her mother for depression with paranoid features. She came from a middle class family and both her parents were employed. She was started on anti‐ depressants and risperidone for the paranoid features. […]

Volume 2 Issues 10 October, 2021 Illness Is Nothing, Where There Is Humanity Nearly 20 years ago, one night around 11.30 p.m. when the whole household was asleep, there was noise at our gate. I sleepily woke up to find a car load of people came urging me to come and see a patient urgently. […]

Volume 2 Issues 9, September, 2021 Patient on Ventilator During my posting in Neurology Department at CMC, Vellore, I was asked to see a terminally ill young patient who was on a ventilator and other life support systems. During the rounds, my Chief Dr.G.M.Taori, after detailed discussion about the patient and its current state decided […]

Volume 2 Issues 8 August, 2021 Don’t take anything for granted!!! The practice in the Neurology ward at CMC, Vellore was for a senior Houseman to do Lumbar puncture whenever cases are sent from the OPD by a colleague after performing a thorough physical examination. It is assumed that the cases that come for LP […]

Volume 2 Issues 7 July, 2021 Never Jump to conclusions in a Hurry It was in the Casualty Department in the CMC Vellore, I was asked to see a young 16 year old girl, who came with discomfort, pain and uneasy sensation in the inner aspect of her left thigh. On examination, I found absolutely […]

Volume 2 Issue 5 May, 2012 How do I Understand This Case? I am narrating here a summary of my observation concerning a unique pattern of illness manifestation in many rural patients attending the out‐patient services during my service at NIMHANS. They suffered from ‘somatoform disorders.’ In this, somatic symptoms are the presenting features, which […]

Volume 2 Issue 4 April, 2012 How do I Understand This Case? Once, Dr. Royadu narrated to me a clinical incident in his practice when he was a general practitioner in Ranibennur. A male daily‐wage laborer from a nomadic tribe attended his clinic with severe pneumonia and fever. Explaining the seriousness of the illness, the […]