USMLE – The Journey
USMLE Hello everyone, a few years back I dreamt of US residency but I had no idea what I was going into. The journey was hard for me but I was fortunate enough to have some wonderful people who guided me through […]
Patient Encounters
The best part of being a primary care doctor is the innumerable encounters that happen every day. Recalling these encounters (at least some) brings you joy at the end of a busy day. There is something new in each patient encounter – […]
Settling down?
Aspiration is great. But it is like an addiction, you can’t control it. Every other day the ladder keeps on getting higher and higher and we never see what’s on the top. A few months back, I desperately wanted to be a […]
Empathy- a doctor’s perspective
‘Empathy’ – is expressing it is enough? As a doctor, I had numerous encounters where I felt I have adequately shown empathy, like while trying to calm down the nerves of my anxious pre-operative patients, discussing untreatable conditions and asking patients to […]
What’s in a drink?
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink and then the drink takes you – F. Scott. Fitzgerald People start drinking for refreshment and slowly and steadily that inculcate into a habit and indulgence of that sort leads […]
As far as I remember, medicine has been a pure science- the perfect biological process of how a human body works. The real joy of an internist lies with the perfect diagnosis. But my question is, how often do we go far […]