Cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of human beings as of now. Number one. We cant escape that fact. Both in men and women. It includes coronary artery disease and ischemic stroke. We cannot have old age as acause of death. Old people also die of something, and it turns out that Cardiovascular disease […]
Category: Healthy life – the right balance
But I don’t eat much!
I arrived a day before the conference. The idea was to spend the day with Vignesh, a friend from my schooldays. He was now running his own software consultancy in Bangalore. It was immediately after my MBBS, and both of us were bachelors. I remembered Vignesh as a pleasantly plump boy who smiled while licking […]
Eureka- I got it. Now give me the Nobel
I am a reasonably modest man. I don’t claim to have made many scientific discoveries. Yet there is one tremendous secret that I have discovered. They say that if you discover the cure for the common cold, you will become a millionaire. The cure for overweight should definitely come in the same league? If so […]
Modern Medicine- Knowing our enemies through Science:
It was the mid eighteenth century in Hungary. A young doctor joined the Vienna General Hospital’s Obstetrics and Gynaecology wing as Chief Resident. His name was Ignaz Semmelweis. There were two maternity Units in the hospital, each admitting on alternate days. Poor pregnant mothers from across the country flocked to this hospital to give birth. […]
Vegetarianism- the Truth.
Disclaimer- I am, as of now, non-vegetarian. I was doing my residency in another state. One of my colleagues casually remarked that it was the natural state of human beings to be vegetarian. I contested this claim immediately. I had to, since I was not a vegetarian. Now, I wouldn’t have. I wouldn’t have argued; […]