Archive for April, 2008

Note: This is a series of images of CT scan in the diagnosis, staging and therapeutic follow-up of colorectal cancers, which I prepared for a talk that I had to give to general practitioners. By ‘prepared’ I mean I had selected representative images and annotated them to show the abnormality to laymen. So this series [...]

The latest episode of SurgeXperiences, the surgical blog carnival is up in limerick form at:

Surgeonsblog, by Sid Schwab, a retired General Surgeon int the Pacific Northwest in the US and author of the book "Cutting Remarks: Insights and Recollections of a Surgeon."

Go. Read. Enjoy. Think.
Powered by Qumana

The Luckiest Guy In The World.

TED Prize winner Larry Brilliant is an epidemiologist who presided over the last case of SmallPox on the planet.
Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Dr. Larry Brilliant talks about how smallpox was finally eradicated from the planet. In a conversational style that belies the deadly seriousness of his subject, he describes the dangers of pandemic disease, [...]

I am to be the guest on Dr. Anonymous’s Show # 31 on blogtalkradio.  You can listen in live at 6:30 AM IST on Friday, April 18, 2008 (9 PM EST on Thursday, April 17 in Dr.A’s place in Ohio).

I recorded and uploaded a promo video post on viddler but found that it does not [...]

Bongi on BTR.

Bongi, a general surgeon working in the notorious South African province of Mpumalanga and author of the blog other things amanzi, will be the guest on the Dr. Anonymous Show at blogtalkradio.
You can listen in live at 6:30 AM IST on Friday, April 11, 2008 (9 PM EST on Thursday, April 10 in Dr.A’s place [...]

Photo Hunt - “glass”

About | Theme: glass | Roll
I am very late for this week’s Saturday Photo Hunt. But I had a great set of photos for the theme so I decided to go ahead and post them today.
I took a short break this weekend to go to Yercaud for a day with my family and some friends. [...]

Catch Me If You Can.

Atropine is on my mind thanks to these two resus stories at Bongi’s blog. Here is my own atropine story.
This happened a while ago in our hospital. A young man of about twenty or so was admitted in the ICU for organophosphate poisoning. From what I gathered later from the nurses it was an attempted [...]

Note: This is a series of images of CT scan in the diagnosis, staging and therapeutic follow-up of colorectal cancers, which I prepared for a talk that I had to give to general practitioners. By ‘prepared’ I mean I had selected representative images and annotated them to show the abnormality to laymen. So this series [...]