A doctor must be psychologically fit for this job –able to make decisions under a terrifying amount of pressure, able to break bad news to anguished relatives, able to deal with death on a daily basis. They must have something that cannot be memorized and graded.  A great doctor must have a huge heart and a distended aorta through which pumps a vast lake of compassion and human kindness & medical colleges don't give a shit about all these in academic years. As you might imagine, learning every single aspect of the human body’s anatomy and physiology, plus each possible way it can mal ..read more

It's not a medical story Only!! Here is the story of team work, friendship and relations.. Patient Ravi Panchal (35/M) presented to us on 29/09/22 late night with early ARDS , Acidosis , Severe Pancytopenia , Dengue Shock Syndrome with MODS , Remained in ICU on ventilator for 10 days , with Dialysis and Ionotropes Supports , with God's Grace , his own will to fight disease , prayers of his Wife and Ultimate support by his friends in all regards , our team's hard work paid off today , he is getting discharged today with smile on his face and his family. At one point, the situation was extreme ..read more

Suppose for an example; Patient gets admitted today at xyz hospital with xyz disease , being investigated to reach some diagnosis by in house team of consultants and medical officers , say 10 of them. Relatives asks and takes pictures of all reports and papers to send to some 11th doctor who has not seen a patient yet , but they are giving him all information and asks for his opinion. looking at these 10 doctors with all doubts by their whatsapp and google knowledge they have gathered. even before the reports have arrived & read properly by treating team , someone in family is ready with m ..read more

HOSPITALS-RELATIVES-PATIENT WHAT A GOOD RELATIVE OF A PATIENT CAN DO FOR THEIR LOVED ONES? 1. visit less , disturb patient and their first relatives as much less as possible , avoid crowding , avoid transferring infection as well as avoid social burden on first family relative of a patient.  2. don't quote negative incidences that u have heard or come across , either related to or not related to same disease condition. 3. offer more sympathy and less logics. don't offer your half / partial knowledge without being asked and don't be google doctor. 4. never lie to your doctor. trust ur ..read more

A loud shoutout to all my colleague/friends, BHMS/BAMS medical officers, Family physicians and General practitioners, All over Vadodara, Gujrat, other states and India, who have worked day and night during this pandemic, putting their lives and families at risk, many of them got infected also with covid but still war was On & its still On,   In this whole year, our medical fraternity was under trouble during this period of Pandemic, in many ways including shortage of manpower, even though GOI and so called NABH has failed over the years to acknowledge contribution from us, neithe ..read more

It's been almost 15 years now that I am doing Job here in Vadodara, what its called RMOship, in different hospitals, different atmosphere, with different people & I feel blessed that this city has given me back more than what I deserve, It taught me that if you are ready to work hard & sincerely, Medical feild here is ready to accept you and nourish you, all seniors are supportive and great people, knowledge & healthy discussions are always around you if you look for it, you will get best of health wealth respect everything here in Vadodara. I want to clarify few basics today what ..read more

Note: *This is absolutely different stuff than hospitals and critical care medicine* As per survey conducted by SEMI, Society of emergency medicine in India, in 2017, “With more than 100,000 road traffic related deaths, 98.5% ‘ambulance runs’ transporting dead bodies, 90% of ambulances without any equipment/oxygen, 95% of ambulances having untrained personnel, most ED doctors having no formal training in EMS, misuse of government ambulances and 30% mortality due to delay in emergency care, India portrays a mirror image of the U.S. of the 1960s.” The good news is that EMS has taken firm root in ..read more

Covid – 19 Pandemic , year 2020 Covid -19 such a negative word when it come positive. People are living under a fear of a tiny virus, we can’t even see by naked eyes, The purpose behind this blog is “why India is in lockdown as compared to Australia.” Being medical person, my curiosity makes me updated with the ongoing situation. I found out during first week of Covid 19 India and Australia’s cases were running parallel. During second or third week both countries had same cases around 6000. After few weeks I saw that Australis’s cases are still same however, India’s cases are increasing day b ..read more

Being Barodian, being BHMS, working in different hospitals since April 2006, I Find myself blessed here, medical field, Doctors, staff, hospitals, are far way better than what we hear n read about in different other cities, in many ways, if not superior in medical facilities. I would like to share a trick / way / methodology which I hv practiced so far, from being student to doctor, be it called as rmo or registrar or whatever it is, Number of hours spent in icu, bed side with patients, is equally proportional to ur knowledge **if u hv interest ofcourse** Discussion with other Doctors aroun ..read more

!Ol my Medical n NonMedical frnz do read this one! The most irritating thing about working in Hospitals is 'Visiting Hours' I really dont understand why ppl come to visit patients in Hospitals! Hardly 5% people coming r really concerned about their health n r thinking how they can b helpful to the patients in real sense! Rest 95% ppl do come for x y z reasons which indian tradition is set for! Either bcz just they r free, curious to know what's happening, sharing their irrelevant n expert experiences n knowledge with everyone patient n relatives n doctors, some r coming just to c billing n ot ..read more