Archive for May, 2006
Gospel Music & the Gurukul system of Medical Education
3 Comments Published by Vijay May 16th, 2006 in Medical Personnel, MedicineBloglines alerted me to a new post by Dr. Hebert a few days ago. I read a few lines and thinking that it was about Jazz and Gospel Music, something that I don't know anything about, I quit.
I came across the post again in Grand Rounds (hosted by Dr. iBear at Doc Around the Clock) [...]
Why aren’t the medical students in Tamil Nadu protesting?
13 Comments Published by Vijay May 14th, 2006 in Life in India, Medicine, News, PoliticsNote: This post was imported from my old blog at wordpress.com. I have disabled comments.
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Close Encounters Of The Alternative Medicine Kind - II
2 Comments Published by Vijay May 14th, 2006 in Life in India, MedicineFor those who read Part-I of my Close Encounters, this story is different. This is more in line with the usual kind of stuff that 'real doctors' write about Alternative Medicine.
It ought to be titled "Quactitioner Alert". I refrained from doing so out of deference to Dr. Crippen who coined the phrase.
This story starts with [...]
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A problem too jumbo-sized for Bill Gates to solve?
0 Comments Published by Vijay May 12th, 2006 in ComputersThat is the question posed by John Naughton of The Observer. The problem is the continuing saga of delays that have plagued the launch of Windows Vista.
Why is this on my blog?
The difference between Microsoft and Apple can be largely explained by two factors. One is structural: Apple's OS X is based on Unix, which [...]
Close Encounters Of The Alternative Medicine Kind - I
4 Comments Published by Vijay May 11th, 2006 in Life in India, MedicineThis is the first of two stories based on two incidents that occurred last week.
I am not a fan of any of the systems of Alternative Medicine. My limited experience of the world of medical blogging tells me that I am not alone. For those of you who are familiar with what 'real doctors' write [...]
Saw this in the newspaper this morning….
NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday restrained public schools in the Capital from subjecting children and their parents to interviews for admissions to pre-nursery and nursery classes. (read the entire article here)
I hope this will be followed in the rest of the country too.
For those of you [...]
State of Indian Mothers and Children
2 Comments Published by Vijay May 10th, 2006 in Life in India, Medicine, NewsI saw Dr. Tara Smith's post at Aetiology today and read the CNN article that she linked to. As there was no mention of India in the best and worst 10 ranks, I was curious to know how we fared in the rankings.
I went over to the Save the Children homepage and downloaded the State [...]













