Suppose you are in the kingdom called Indus land. You are a member of one of the prominent families in the region. The family manages the sanitary activities of the Kingdom- an important function. The King gives your family some powers over the people. Look after their toilets, for instance. The people are happy. They […]
Category: Healthy life – the right balance
Body weight and Diabetes
It was 1997. I had just finished MBBS. For a short period, I stayed at home. One day I met Raman Menon and family from the house nearby. It was many years since we met. Raman Menon was in his early seventies. He had made his fortune in the Middle East. That was his ticket […]
Money and Health- heading for the abyss:
It was 2006. I had become a Plastic Surgeon. After four and a half years of MBBS, I did One year of that rotating slave work called internship. Then three years of surgical residency at JIPMER. I had done eighty to hundred hours of work per week in those years, and I didnt know what […]
Lifespan and India
In my childhood, fifty years meant old. Sixty was really old. 20 years back, I would have been described as middle aged. I am attending a conference of Plastic Reconstructive Surgeons in Kochi, and many see me as part of the ‘younger crowd’. Believe it. Newspapers mirrored it, if you were thinking that I am […]
Dont Diet- Just Exercise! ( Sorry- wrong advice)
College hostels are good places to look for real big eaters. I knew two of them, during my days there. Jim and Tim- both were famous for their gargantuan appetites. The similar names made it easy to buzz about them. “Did you see Jim and Tim at the mess yesterday? Each had fifteen chappathies.” “And […]