A Digital Newsletter of Psychiatry for Medical Doctors
Down The Memory Lane Volume 12 Issues 8 August, 2022 Going down the memory laneThere has been happiness and painReflecting back on our lifeIt has been a lovely driveAmazing great times we hadSome moments did make us sadYet we did not give up so fastPersisting till the very lastLots of hard work we had to […]
Down Memory Lane Volume 12 Issues 7 July, 2022 The year was 1971. Medical education was highly coveted in India. Kerala had only three Medical Colleges at that time- Trivandrum, Calicut and Kottayam besides the private TD Medical College, Alleppey (which was later taken over by the Govt in 1973). Kerala had only 400 medical […]
Down The Memory Lane Volume 12 Issues 6 June, 2022 In 2014, at the department of child and adolescent psychiatry, Institute of child health, Chennai, it was decided to translate a holistic ADHD parent rating scale VADPRS [ Vanderbilt ADHD parent rating scale] into Tamil language as it was a gold standard rating scale used […]
Down The Memory Lane Volume 12 Issues 4 April, 2022 The fruition of psychiatry training went paralleled the history of psychiatry and was influenced by the policies and political conditions of the time. Historically, psychiatry training was confined to the mental hospitals, and integration of psychiatry services was encouraged at various levels of the health […]
Volume 10 Issue 10 October, 2020 KING GEORGE AND QUEEN MARY As young senior house officers on the medical wards, we worked unlimited hours. Any number of chance events would prolong the day. I describe one such event. In the early 70s there was not much in terms of psychiatric care practiced on the general […]
Volume 10 Issue 9 September, 2019 As I began to write this article, it dawned on me how‘ going down memory lane’, is an important and universal diagnostic and therapeutic tool vital for the survival of every health care professional. As a medical student in the 1970’s, I was taught the universal skill of‘ history […]
Volume 10 Issue 8 August, 2019 In the early 1980s, my journey in psychiatry started in a multi disciplinary hospital’s psychiatry unit in the city of joy, Kolkata. My mentor, who was a professor of medicine, advised me about integrating medicine, neuro medicine and psychiatry. It was a fascinating experience but involved hard work. During […]
Volume 12 Issues 2 February, 2022 Growing up, I always heard family and friends calling me “Chota (Punjabi Word for Junior) Doctor”, even before I knew the meaning of these words. They called me because my father was a registered medical practitioner in a small town in North India and they just assumed I would […]
Volume 10 Issue 7 July, 2019 In my 15 years in Psychiatry, I have trained in the United Kingdom and in Singapore, before returning to practice in my native city in India. I have been fortunate to witness Psychiatry in varied socio cultural contexts. Working in the last remnants of the mental asylum system made […]
Volume 8 Issue 11 November, 2018 I joined the Indian army as an intern in 1984 & went on to specialise in psychiatry at AFMC Pune. I wasfascinated by psychiatry since early days & that has carried me till date. In my 12 years of stay in the army having seen the extremes of climate […]