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HIV/AIDS– when stigma kills people!!!

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Electronic Cigarettes: New Hope for Smokers?

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When Rahul Roy Chowdhury, my bosom friend from school, told me over phone about his plans to launch electronic cigarettes in the Indian market a year ago, I din’t take him seriously. While he kept saying that it was going to be a big leap from conventional cigarettes, I was confused and found it hard to [...]

Anatomy Teachers in Calcutta of the Seventies

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The teaching of anatomy was taken very seriously in our student days. The first two years were devoted to its study, a daily lecture being supplemented by a three hour dissection stint during the afternoons and many classes on osteology, viscera and surface marking. Many of us used to enjoy the grind; the knowledge of [...]

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13 unlucky QUESTIONS THE MEDIA should seek answers for and answer too

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Are Junior doctors the only doctors in the Health Service? Why senior doctors who take NPA not acted upon when it is an open truth that they have chambers? Patient parties come in a stressed situation to the hospital they are harassed by dalals (who are either red or green in colour.. hope you all [...]

THE GOLDEN PLATE of Health Services in West Bengal

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“West Bengal witnessed a 4 day strike Of all junior doctors in Kolkata” “Inhumane face of doctors in West bengal” has been the staple diet for the media in West Bengal.

Is it not time that we find out what is the cause behind such strikes taking place in all parts of West Bengal. The cause is exactly what the Govt takes pride in – West Bengal is a state which provides maximum heath care in the governement sector. But is it health that is provided in state medical colleges or care that is provided??? [...]

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Mob Attacks on Doctors & the Role of the Media

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It is a matter of great shame that in the recent few weeks there has been several attacks on doctors on duty in government hospitals all over the state. In most of these cases, the junior doctors had to bear the brunt of mob fury save for a few instances where the most senior and [...]

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WWGHD?

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It means what would Gregory House do? One of my friends is mortally ill. He contracted a Hepatitis A infection and went down with fulminant hepatic failure, which is quite rare in Hep A infection. Subsequently, he suffered from massive intravascular hemolysis and the resulting hemoglobinuria precipitated and acute renal failure. He was put on [...]

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Kill Sweet Desire

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I watched the monitors as they slowly but surely blinked and bleeped slower and slower. The heart rate was going down. The Blood pressure was plummeting. The fever was going up. The urine output was trickling to a stop. Inotropes on full blast were doing no good. Glasgow Coma Scale rating was a dismal 3/15. [...]

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A 10 STEP GUIDE TO BREAST CANCER FOR A MODERN WOMAN

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Hello friends , its adrita from north Bengal…and today I intend to tell you all about a killer disease which can be easily routed out if properly treated but the veil of modesty that we woman wear often prevents us from doing so……and the end result…we sacrifice our lives….. Yes my friends I am talking [...]

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PODCAST: Save our Doctors!

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I had made this podcast after an episode of public mob fury hitting the doctors working in the ER in Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata. I have posted it on my blog and on Youtube.com, but I think, there needs to be a wider dissemination of this message so that more people actually get to [...]

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