The fact remains that some features of our nature do have an innate component. Intelligence and personality traits are according to various studies, between 40 and 70 percent inherited. Your ideology may cause you to stick to 40, while some may swear by 70. Many may deny this exists. Some would like to believe that […]
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; […]
Doing what I don’t like
Another of my attempts at giving advice to young medical students. I cannot run away. They want me to. What can one do but oblige…….. Remember……they asked for it. In the film ‘Pretty woman’ , Richard Gere’s billionaire character asks the character of Julia Roberts, a prostitute: “What all do you do?” “I do […]
How to choose?- Maximise or Satisfice?
Sreehari was a friend of mine from high school. He was in fact, very good at studies. But he seemed to lack…..well- something. He had some favourite clothes that he wore repeatedly. He always ordered urud vada and coffee whenever we went out for a break. One thing he was really interested in was becoming […]
The terrifying Ascendance of Cancer
I had a grand aunt, an unmarried lady. She was an amazingly healthy old woman. At the age of fifty, she had an ultrasound of the neck done, as part of a work up for a sore throat. The throat cleared after a few days. It was some minor infection. But the ultrasound scan picked […]