Pranab

LATEST ARTICLES ( 332 )

• Rural Posting for MBBS Interns: My Experience

  

  The rural-urban health gap in India is an inconvenient truth – one which we may not acknowledge exists, but it does. The fact remains that even students who com... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2012 HEALTH

• Comic Book Meets Medicine: Little Orphan Annie

  

  One of the classic histopathological signs that we read of in Pathology quite often is theOrphan Annie Eye nucleus seen in Papillary carcinoma of the thyroid.... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2012 COMIC BOOKS, HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Mistakes in Medicine

  

  This TED Talk has been on my radar for quite some time now, but thanks to my exams and study schedules, I have not been able to get around to going through it.... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• VW Action 1986

  

  Reblogged from Bandwagen: Back in the days before there were digital cameras, before there were VW shows every other weekend in the UK and when VW Motoring was... Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2012 MOTO

• Do You Have an Online Presence? Then Stop SOPA/PIPA Now!

  

  in today’s world hardly anyone is bereft of an online presence. And hence, hardly anyone is in the dark about the outrageous Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2012 SELF EXPRESSION, TECH

• Tech Care of Your Health

  

  Well, it took a massively thought provoking article by Vinod Khosla on TechCrunch to jerk me out of my inertia of lethargy with blogging. Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2012 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Rapid Revision: Serum Sickness Like Reactions

  

  Background:Serum sickness like reaction is a rare but well-recognized adverse effect with certain drugs, especially antibiotics, amongst which Cefaclor is... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Rapid Revision: Rheumatoid Pneumoconiosis

  

  More popularly known as Caplan’s Syndrome, after Dr. Anthony Caplan of the Cardiff Pneumoconiosis Panel, who was the first to describe this condition, this is,... Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Rapid Revision: Chromoblastomycosis

  

  This is the segment where I jot down high yield notes for rapid revision of some key features of a focused topic. I know I have not done these for a while now,... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Up on Grand Rounds: Looking for Meaning

  So just a little post to let all you readers (yes, all five of you!) know that I am alive, and to pipe in that the latest segment of the Grand Rounds is up at... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Is MBBS Becoming a Vestigial Degree?

  

  “There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Why the Future of Medicine Should Not Be Predicted Based on Recruiting Company...

  

  KevinMD has been the blogging guru of almost all the young medical bloggers out there. I am no exception. I have been reading Kevin Pho’s blog ever since he... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Happy World AIDS Day

  I usually tend to write a series or two on the occasion of this event but several events have coincided this year to cause an immense crisis where blogging has... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Earworms: Kolaveri Di and the Pathogenesis of a Musical Malaise

  

  Like the rest of the nation (and some would say, the world), I have been asking myself over and over again why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di. Read more

  Posted on 26 November 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Why This

  …kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di? I just cannot get this song out of my head. I do not understand half the lyrics but the latest viral video song on youtube is... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Pepper Spray and the Police State

  

  This macabre image by Louise Macabitas has brought to us an event that has triggered off a massive knee jerk response in what is considered to be one of the mos... Read more

  Posted on 24 November 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• "First They Ignore You, Then They Laugh at You, Then They Fight You, and Then Yo...

  Have you heard of Sanjit Bunker Roy? NO? Of course. Your nose mjust have been buried in some rotten MCQ book like mine. Go read this then. STAT! Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• So What If Peter Roebuck WAS Gay?

  

  I logged in to check if I had any comments or mails to moderate or reply to and I was hugely shocked to see this on the stats tab of the blog:Initially I had... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE

• R.I.P.: Peter Roebuck

  

  Just as I was about to wind up for the night, I came across this news bit on Twitter: Peter Roebuck is dead. He was supposedly being investigated for... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2011 HEALTH, SPORTS

• The Map of the Cat Conundrum: Richard Feynman and AIIMS November 2011

  

  Well, that sounds like an odd assortment of topics to group under the same heading, does it not? Well, today I had the misfortune of experiencing first hand wha... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2011 HEALTH, MEDICINE