Pranab
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Musings of a skeptic oslerphile.
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The King (of Indian Roads) is Dead… Long Live the King
These days the newspapers are awash with so many happening and eye-catching articles, that it would not be too hard to miss this one: Hindustan Motors, the... Read more
Posted on 25 May 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Happy Towel Day!
So, you never heard of this, eh? Today is World Towel Day, celebrated in the memory of Douglas Adams, the celebrated author of A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galax... Read more
Posted on 25 May 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Meet Your Match: USMLE Match 2014 Interview #3: Meet the Little Rock-Star!
I had embarked on a project to write about people and their experience of cracking the USMLE puzzle this year, and had asked matchers to fill in a short, and... Read more
Posted on 25 May 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Meet Your Match: USMLE Match 2014 Interview #2: Cleve-land Ahoy!
This is the second post of the series where I talk to (and about) people who have successfully matched and reached the culmination of their USMLE Journey. I hav... Read more
Posted on 15 May 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Confessions of a Quondam Gourmand
I usually stay away from posting personal stuff on my blog here at Scepticemia, but seeing as how the personal stuff has kept me from blogging (and life, in... Read more
Posted on 14 May 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Meet Your Match: USMLE Match 2014 Interview #1 – Houston, You Have a Resident!
This is a series in which I post about the confessions of the USMLE matchers this year. I had encouraged people to fill in their responses to a series of... Read more
Posted on 01 April 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
The Parable of the Farmers Plagued by Rats: AKA Publications in Advancing Medica...
There was a small island kingdom, inhabited by a peaceful race of people who prospered through the advances they had made in agriculture. One day, they were... Read more
Posted on 04 March 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
DNA Digest’s Twitter Competition for Data Sharing in Genetics
As any reader of Ben Goldacre’s blog and books will know, open data is the big debate. And the bigger the diagnostic or therapeutic implications of the data... Read more
Posted on 11 February 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Hacking of the National Institute of Epidemiology and Musings on Hacktivism
Yesterday, my friend and medical blogging maestro, SoumyadeepB brought this to my notice:National Institute of #Epidemiology, #India hacked .. @scepticemia migh... Read more
Posted on 28 January 2014 CURRENT, SOCIETY, TECH -
My “Kunwar Amar Fiasco” and Republic Day Reflections
I have been debating whether or not I should write this post, but eventually I decided to go ahead with it. There is no point in holding back on one’s... Read more
Posted on 26 January 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE, SOCIAL MEDIA -
USMLE Match 2013: Part 1: Positions Per Applicant – Revealing the IMG Story
This post has been long due, and I have been rather flattered that I received several “requests” for this post as a follow up to my previous ones; you can find... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
The Death of a Disease: India Eradicates Polio
Today (13th January, 2014) is a landmark day in the history of public health in India. It is exactly three years since the last Polio case was detected in India. Read more
Posted on 12 January 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
2013 in Review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.Here’s an excerpt:Madison Square Garden can seat 20,000 people for a... Read more
Posted on 02 January 2014 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Buying and Selling Never Was So Easy
This is a sponsored guest post.Nowadays, Internet has transformed our lives so much that we use it for doing almost everything. One of the clearest examples of... Read more
Posted on 25 November 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
World Toilet Day: Sanitation for Gender Equity
Hello. It is World Toilet Day today! I have made it a point to regularly blog about it every year since I started blogging:Have A Shitty Day: World Toilet... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
PixelPumper: Windows Live Writer Replacement for Mac?
I have recently shifted to using a MacBook Air (thanks for the applause, now can you please give me some money so that I can buy some food?) and for the most... Read more
Posted on 16 November 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Assam Rape Festival: A Satire, A Nation Ridiculed
So the American news website called National Report has come up with an obviously fake satire about a Rape Festival beginning in Assam this week. Read more
Posted on 07 November 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Showing Polio the Finger: A Lesson in Public Health
As students of Public Health, we, in India, are witnessing history in the making. It is not often that one gets to see, and be a part of a revolution that is th... Read more
Posted on 26 October 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
IEC in Public Health: What Can Public Health Learn from Steve Jobs?
I was watching some cool advertisements of an online portal (OLX.in) and was wondering that why the public health messages that went out were so boring and... Read more
Posted on 25 October 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE -
Predatory Open Access: Part 3 – Research Spoofs and Publication Faux-Pas
Ever since the Science paper came out earlier this week, the world of academia has been a-flutter with excitement and controlled outrage. Read more
Posted on 07 October 2013 HEALTH, MEDICINE