Volume 8 Issue 9 September, 2018 Success of good clinical and legal intervention When I was a lecturer a graduate young male of 23 years of age was brought by his father. He was addicted to alcohol and cannabis. He had relapsed very fast as an out patient. When suggested treatment as inpatient, he refused […]
Down the memory Lane
DOWN THE MEMORY LANE
Volume 12 Issues 1 January, 2022 The Saint Psychiatrist My memory goes back to 1974, when I was yet to join medicine. I had heard that there is a doctor at the Government Medical College, Rohtak, who often supports many patients financially. I joined MBBS at the same College in August 1976. Then, I came […]
Down The Memory Lane
Volume 8 Issue 3 March, 2018 “Life is a teacher” Sitting in my consultation room exhausted hoping to have lunch received a call from my son asking ‘”where is the curry, where is my shirt” I told him it’s where about and was thinking how a mother’s life, whoever we are revolves around children. My […]
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Volume 8 Issue 2 February, 2018 “Changes in source of learning” A couple of months ago, one of my patients who suffer from Bipolar Disorder came to see me with his wife. That day I had a DNB and family medicine post graduate with me doing her psychiatry rotation. “Doctor, my uric acid level is […]
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Volume 8 Issue 1 January, 2018 “Journey towards satisfaction” My journey from MBBS days to what I am now has been an excellent motivating journey for myself which I wish to share with you Bereaved with the untimely loss of my father while in final MBBS financial compulsions forced me to take up a job […]
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Volume 7 Issue 12 December, 2017 Autobiography of “I” “I” is our only world and life which we nurture and safeguard “as if” it is our friend, guide and philosopher” till an event or a situation open’s one’s eye door to “Reality” giving rise to a doubt, whether “I” is real or false? Throughout life, […]
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Volume 7 Issue 11 November, 2017 Personal History My seniors in medical college taught me to write bowel, bladder, sleep and appetite as personal history. When I joined Psychiatry, really I knew how much a detailed personal history helps, not only in diagnosis and treatment but also in prevention. Psychiatric personal history starts from antenatal […]
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Volume 7 Issue 10 October, 2017 Mental health in the work place The last week saw us celebrating the World Mental Health Day with emphasis on ‘well-being at the workplace’ as Mental health being adversely affected by stress, internal conflict, time and energy demands, is now at an all-time high. To illustrate the above is […]
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Volume 7 Issue 9 September, 2017 An Ode to silent Sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease Prof. Alois Alzheimer is described as the chain cigar-smoking psychiatrist-clinical researcher who was fond of “spending evenings and nights at the microscope.” Request took me to go up and down the memory lane and I recognized that beginning was made in […]
Down The Memory Lane
Volume 8 Issue 8 August, 2017 Psychiatry at good old school When we go down the memory lane many things come to our mind and when asked to write to a journal I had hard time choosing something which will be of interest to all the readers. A non academic subject or the pranks we […]