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 […]
Down the memory Lane
Guest Column: Down The Memory Lane…………
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 […]
Guest Column: Down the Memory Lane
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 […]
Guest Column: Down the Memory Lane
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 […]
MORSEL OF TIME
Volume 11 Issue 7 July, 2021 Down The Memory Lane Morsel of childhood innocence Lurked in brooding woods and Stony tracks.. Soaked in flowing creeks and muddy ponds.. Battered in bleeding wounds and haunting taunts.. With eyes searching in vain for home. Morsel of adolescent autonomy Bloomed in boarding schools and bunk beds.. United in […]
Down the Memories: Dr. Ashoka Janavi Prasad
August 2021 Volume 11, issues 8 DOWN THE MEMORY LANE Growing up in the 1960’s, there was no way I could have avoided the influence of R.D. Laing, who in those days was a cult figure for all the impressionable teenagers. Much later, when I was earnestly training as a resident in psychiatry, Laing and […]
Guest Column: Down the Memory Lane
Volume 2 Issue 3 March, 2012 Series 2: How do I understand this case? Late Dr. Raghavendra Rao, a consultant cardiologist had published in the year 2000 a book in Kannada (“Vaidya Keliddu, Kandaddu,” ‐ ‘what the doctor heard and saw,’) containing interesting anecdotes from his practice. One is about a past middle aged male […]
Guest Column: Down the Memory Lane
Volume 2 Issue 2 February, 2012 How do I Understand This Case ? On an Out‐patient day at NIMHANS, a PG presented the history of a male patient in his mid‐30s with complaints of bouts of abnormal behavior. He had delayed milestones of development, could not progress beyond 8th standard and had mild mental retardation. […]