Author Archive for Vijay
CT Users Meet
3 Comments Published by Vijay August 5th, 2010 in CT, Cardiac CT, Healthcare, Life in India, MDCT, Medicine, Radiology…
I started writing this on the way back home from a meeting that I attended over last weekend. This has remained a rough draft for the past three days. I decided to publish it now with minimal changes. Else this too shall remain in my drafts folder for a long enough time to become irrelevant.
The [...]
Do No Harm To Early Pregnancies
1 Comment Published by Vijay May 6th, 2010 in Humour, Medical Journals, Medicine, Radiology, Radiology Journals…
An impressive and compelling editorial in the latest issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.
First, Do No Harm . . . to Early Pregnancies - Doubilet and Benson 29 5: 685. [Excerpts here with emphases added by me. The editorial is free to view &/or download in India. Subscription may be required for [...]
Credibility of MCI Will Be Restored
2 Comments Published by Vijay May 5th, 2010 in Ethics, Life in India, Medical Education, Medicine, News, Politics…
The Times of India - Credibility of MCI will be restored, says Azad:
As MCI continues to reel under a severe crisis of credibility, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said it was the government’s immediate objective to ensure that the body responsible for regulating medical education in the country worked in a fair [...]
Radiology in MSM
3 Comments Published by Vijay May 4th, 2010 in Brain, CT, Medicine, News, Radiology…
Presenting one of the rare occasions in which radiology features in the mainstream media…
[Image source: Afghanistan, April, 2010 - The Big Picture. The Boston Globe]
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The caption to this image (photo number 3 in The Boston Globe’s The Big Picture article Afghanistan, April, 2010) reads…
A CAT Scan shows the placement of a 14.5 millimeter high explosive [...]
The Worm At The Rotten Core
2 Comments Published by Vijay April 24th, 2010 in Ethics, Healthcare, Life in India, Medical Education, Medicine, News, Social Commentary…
[Image - Screen grab from The Hindu's online article]
Note: The post title relates to this older post
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Update (24.04.2010, 2:45 PM):
This news article from The Economic Times gives more details about the sordid story…
NEW DELHI: In an important step towards cleaning up the corruption in the medical education sector, the Central Bureau of Investigation arrested Medical [...]
SurgeXperiences 319
9 Comments Published by Vijay March 21st, 2010 in Blog carnivals, Medical blogs, SurgeXperiences…
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You know, I am hearing a lot about March Madness from my American friends on twitter and facebook. I am not knowing what that really means, but I am thinking it must have something to do with their healthcare reform bill which I am growing sick of hearing about. So I was thinking I will [...]
A Quiet Blogiversary
5 Comments Published by Vijay February 23rd, 2010 in Blogging, Friends, Medical blogs, News, Other Bloggers, Personal…
Just to note the passing of four years of existence of this blog
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I really ought to put more effort into keeping this lively following the example of friends who have recently seen the light and friends who have been leading lights in the medical blogging world
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scanman’s casebook: Case 23
3 Comments Published by Vijay February 17th, 2010 in CT, MDCT, Radiology, casebook…
A young adult (mid thirties), a known case of non-specific aortoarteritis (Takayasu’s arteritis) was referred for a CT scan of the Abdomen including a CT Aortogram to rule out mesenteric ischemia.
The inital plain (no IV or oral contrast) CT scan did not show any evidence of abdominal pathology. So a CT Aortogram was done.
The following [...]













