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Here I am pushing the limits of my technical abilities, modest as they are, exploring yet another frontier.
l apologize in advance for typos and formatting errors, which l hope will be minimal.
I am writing this post on my mobile phone, while on my way out of town. l am thankful for handwriting recognition with stylus [...]

Happy 61st Independence Day India

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Abortion is “something that has fascinated me since my days in medical college.” That is a direct quote from one of my first serious posts after I started this blog. In that post I had declared; “To us in India, abortion is almost a non-issue.”
In a related post a few days later, I answered some [...]

Readers who have some knowledge of electrical engineering could probably solve this exercise with ease (?!).
For those who do not have any idea about electrical engineering, here are the basic laws that would help (?!) in completing this exercise.
Kirchoff’s Current Law (KCL, also known as Kirchhoff’s first law, Kirchhoff’s point rule, Kirchhoff’s junction rule (or [...]

I am trying to go green from now on….
…on a red bicycle.

I bought a new bicycle yesterday. My wife and I intend to share it. The shop did not have a metallic red cycle ready last evening, so we had to wait till they delivered it today. I have to remove the garish rubber ‘mudguard‘ [...]

Ian Furst, author of the blog Wait Time & Delayed Care has an interesting post on India’s Health Care System.

India’s healthcare system is undergoing dramatic changes that parallel its’ odd emergence as a capital market. Where Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong and more recently China have emerged from rural societies into modern economies through industrialization, urbanization [...]

via David Porter of the Health Disparities Blog
The International Herald Tribune has a story posted that speaks to health disparities in India. The article contrasts the care provided by two very different hospitals.
Wockhardt is a state-of-the-art private hospital that provides 5-Star service. Patients have private rooms overlooking gardens. Cable TV and computers are just a [...]

This happened when I was an intern.
I was on night duty in my General Medicine rotation and was in the casualty near midnight because nothing much was happening in the wards. An emaciated old man was brought in by a bunch of rustic folk. He was wrapped in a threadbare shawl and there was [...]