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 […]
Down the memory Lane
Down The Memory Lane
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 […]
Down the Memory Lane : Dr Raman Baweja
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 […]
Down The Memory Lane
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 […]
Down The Memory Lane
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 […]
Down The Memory Lane
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
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 […]
Down The Memory Lane
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 […]
Down The Memory Lane
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 […]