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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.
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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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[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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]