Archive for August, 2006

Dr. Hébert has started his Katrina Blog Project as announced. It is his personal memoir of what happened in New Orleans in the last week of August, 2005.
This memoir is not especially dramatic. I was not involved in any rooftop rescues. I was not stranded in any hospitals. My family evacuated, and it was weeks [...]

The third edition of the monthly Radiology Grand Rounds is up at Dr. Sumer’s blog.
Dr. Sumer has managed to make even ‘dull & gray’ radiology look interesting with quizes, case reports, unusual findings, thought-provoking articles, posts in other languages and posts on veterinary radiology…
Among the dozen entries, these two are definitely worth looking at…
…a moving [...]

The human spirit of inquiry and man’s seemingly insatiable curiosity about the workings of the world around him are without question the foremost reason for the advanced stage of evolution that mankind finds itself in today.
mmmm…
Is it really so?
The doubt arises when I come across something like this post.
The NMR spectrum of ear wax that [...]

Anniversaries.

Yesterday was our wedding anniversary. It has been seven wonderful, eventful years.
Today, my brother and sister-in-law are celebrating their fifth anniversary.
We are looking forward to emulating my parents who are celebrating their thirtyfifth anniversary today.
The picture shows my daughter’s hands with patterns of mehndi, which she loves.

The 3rd edition of Radiology Grand Rounds is due on Sunday, August 27, 2006.
It will be at Dr. Sumer’s blog again this time.
You need not be a Radiologist to post. Please send in anything even remotely related to radiology to sumerdoc-AT-yahoo-DOT-com.
If you can’t find anything to submit this time around, you have till the last [...]

This not about Guantánamo Bay, Afghanistan or Iraq. But it typifies the changed times that we now live in.
I read this post in Dr. Sumer’s blog about a man who was detained at Orlando airport because the radioiodine that he was administered for the treatment of thyrotoxicosis triggered the airport’s alarm.
I was reminded of a [...]

I read this eulogy for Susan Butcher in Tundra Medicine Dreams a few days ago.
She was featured in an article about the Iditarod in today’s Young World section of ‘The Hindu.’

Time Out.

For some time now I’ve seen many blogs with colourful photographs. Mine looked a bit dry and bare. The only pictures I have on my blog happen to be ones related to radiology.
Time to change that.
Last Sunday I took my wife and daughter on a small outing with some friends to the same nearby hill [...]