A Digital Newsletter of Psychiatry for Medical Doctors
Guest Editorial Volume 12 Issues 8 August, 2022 Many students and young faculty members regard medical journal editors villains: They compile boring, unreadable stuff and statistics into overpriced issues, heartlessly reject your works of love and hard labor with flimsy excuses, and then fill the journal pages with articles of their own or their cronies, […]
Volume 12 Issues 7 July, 2022 What do Marcus Trescothick, Glenn Maxwell, Will Pucovski, Jonathan Trott, Sarah Taylor, Suzie Bates, Praveen Kumar, Virat Kohli and the great Sachin Tendulkar have in common? England’s opener Marcus Trescothick returned to his country in the middle of the India tour in February 2006, citing personal reasons, which were […]
Volume 12 Issues 7 July, 2022
Volume 12 Issues 7 July, 2022 We all must have come through these terms at least once, have read it in some news or article and would have casually moved on from it because probably it’s no new occurrence. In history, diseases and devastations were considered acts of supernatural powers or angry gods or malignant […]
Volume 12 Issues 7 July, 2022 There is a saying in our anatomy book “a surgeon is the one who has a lion’s heart, a hawk’s eye and a lady’s hand.” Since age’s healers have been regarded as the epitome of gods on this earth, their toil relieved the sick, the suffering, and the ailed […]
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 […]
Guest Editorial Volume 12 Issues 7 July, 2022 Geoffrey Rose’s 1985 paper, Sick individuals, and sick populations drew a distinction between the causes of illness at the individual level and the population level(1). Health care typically focuses on individuals presenting with symptoms of illness, or screening for individuals at high risk of some adverse health […]
Volume 12 Issues 6 June, 2022
Volume 12 Issues 6 June, 2022 For many students, choosing the right textbook for a subject can be a rather tedious process. Most of us depend on advice from professors of various departments and senior colleagues. It is essential that we choose the right book while getting introduced to the subject itself. Psychiatry is one […]
Volume 12 Issues 6 June, 2022 “Life is a balance between holding on and letting go” – Rumi. India is undergoing sociodemographic changes such as increased literacy, health awareness, rising corporate culture, working parents, and nuclear families. It leads to a particular stratum of young, working parents who are health aware and specifically regarding child […]