Archive for January, 2009
However strong your…
2 Comments Published by Vijay January 29th, 2009 in Blogging, Life in India, News, Other Bloggers, Social Commentary, twitter…
…pseudosecular-liberal credentials are, I bet they aren’t as strong or as pseudo as those of NDTV.
Shame on NDTV, for forcing a lone blogger to grovel in abject surrender!
Shame!!
DesiPundit: Patrix - Blogger Silenced by NDTV:
Terrorist attacks in Mumbai. Media reports. Bloggers blog. Twitterers tweet. People don’t like media’s coverage. Bloggers opine and report on media’s role. [...]
National Girl Child Day
0 Comments Published by Vijay January 24th, 2009 in Life in India, News, Social Commentary[Image from this older post of mine]
January 24th will be celebrated as National Girl Child Day every year to create awareness about welfare and empowerment of girl child. This was announced by Smt. Renuka Chowdhury, Minister for Women and Child Development here today. She said that to commemorate the occasion a number of programmes would [...]
Why are weekends different?
0 Comments Published by Vijay January 18th, 2009 in Friends, Hospitals, Medical Personnel, Medical blogs, Medicine, twitter…
All the medical bloggers who are on twitter know of the “Twitter Favourites” series posted by Ves Dimov (AllergyNotes on twitter).
The following conversation occurred on twitter. Spread over more than twenty hours and spanning half the globe, the conversation involves an American physician, an Indian radiologist (me), two American nurses (one of whom is also [...]
Finally, some support for MDCT Coronary Angiography
0 Comments Published by Vijay January 13th, 2009 in CT, Medical Journals, Medical Research, Medicine, NEJM, News, RadiologyAs a radiologist with a newly installed state-of-the-art multislice CT capable of doing Coronary CT Angiography in my department, I am obviously biased in favour of MDCT. But that does not mean that I endorse the indiscriminate use of CT or any other radiation-heavy investigative modality for diagnosis.
I have had concerns about the reports of [...]
Some CT angiography images from my new toy…
Aortic Arch to Dorsalis Pedis arteries (110ml non-ionic iodinated intravenous contrast; scan time 34 seconds) MIP frontal projection.
The above image seems to be lacking in detail because it is zoomed out to show the entire angiogram (approximately 1.5 m or 5 feet) and the JPEG compression probably ate [...]
A spotter for my surgical blog friends. This is not for you people.
Any other medical types are welcome to post their answer(s) in the comments section.
Update (January 10, 2009):
Many thanks to all who answered. Especially to bongi & Rambodoc, both excellent bloggers and practising surgeons, one in Mpumalanga, South Africa and the other in Kolkata, [...]
Sharing some of the first images from our new multislice CT.
CT Abdominal Aortogram 3D VR image.
CT Abdominal Aortogram MIP projection, gray-scale inverted image.
CT Urogram MIP image.
CT Urogram 3D VR image.
Normal lungs with the tracheobronchial tree seen in MinIP projection.
Usual Interstitial Pneumonia (UIP) - MinIP projection.
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Please Vote in the 2008 Medical Blog Awards
5 Comments Published by Vijay January 7th, 2009 in Awards, Medical blogs, NewsPolls are open at medGadget for the 2008 Medical Weblog Awards.
I am a finalist in the Best Clinical Weblog Category (I’m still not sure if that isn’t a mistake). You can vote for me here if you wish.
Please vote for the finalists in other categories here.













