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I was pleasantly surprised by some news passed on by one of my medical college classmates from Chennai a couple of days ago.
One of our classmates, I’ll call her Sue, has been promoted and appointed as a Unit Chief in the General Medicine department in a big league medical college in Chennai.
Sue was among the [...]

Instead of flipping through a textbook, radiology residents will soon use computers to learn about the physics of radiology.
Four Web-based instructional modules are being developed by medical physicists and radiologists at the Medical College of Georgia. The project is funded by the Radiological Society of North America and the American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

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I saw my friend Ramona’s post and multiple posts on twitter about Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty earlier today yesterday. It’s past midnight and I know I am late.
I initially did not want to write anything. My reasoning was that any medical person in my country could fill volumes with the gut-wrenching instances of [...]

Note: The worst renal injury that I have seen. This is one of the cases that I was telling my surgical blog friends Bongi, Buckeye & Ramona that I would post on my blog.
A 50-year-old lady fell down a flight of stairs in her house and badly hurt her right loin. Brought to the [...]

Note: Starting yet another series of radiological posts. I am going to model this on Laughlin Dawes’s excellent Radiology Picture of the Day, which unfortunately has run aground due to lack of submissions. So this will be mostly images with a little bit of explanatory or reference text.
Two-days-old baby with a large Liver mass [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

While looking through the archives of ultrasound images I came across a couple of instances of common diagnoses made through tests that are not commonly done to diagnose them. This might become a series of posts, if I stick with the theme.
Acute Appendicitis is, as everyone knows, a common diagnosis on ultrasonography of the Abdomen [...]