Volume 8 Issue 2 February, 2018 “Changes in source of learning” A couple of months ago, one of my patients who suffer from Bipolar Disorder came to see me with his wife. That day I had a DNB and family medicine post graduate with me doing her psychiatry rotation. “Doctor, my uric acid level is […]
Down the memory Lane
Down The Memory Lane
Volume 8 Issue 1 January, 2018 “Journey towards satisfaction” My journey from MBBS days to what I am now has been an excellent motivating journey for myself which I wish to share with you Bereaved with the untimely loss of my father while in final MBBS financial compulsions forced me to take up a job […]
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Volume 7 Issue 12 December, 2017 Autobiography of “I” “I” is our only world and life which we nurture and safeguard “as if” it is our friend, guide and philosopher” till an event or a situation open’s one’s eye door to “Reality” giving rise to a doubt, whether “I” is real or false? Throughout life, […]
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Volume 7 Issue 11 November, 2017 Personal History My seniors in medical college taught me to write bowel, bladder, sleep and appetite as personal history. When I joined Psychiatry, really I knew how much a detailed personal history helps, not only in diagnosis and treatment but also in prevention. Psychiatric personal history starts from antenatal […]
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Volume 7 Issue 10 October, 2017 Mental health in the work place The last week saw us celebrating the World Mental Health Day with emphasis on ‘well-being at the workplace’ as Mental health being adversely affected by stress, internal conflict, time and energy demands, is now at an all-time high. To illustrate the above is […]
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Volume 7 Issue 9 September, 2017 An Ode to silent Sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease Prof. Alois Alzheimer is described as the chain cigar-smoking psychiatrist-clinical researcher who was fond of “spending evenings and nights at the microscope.” Request took me to go up and down the memory lane and I recognized that beginning was made in […]
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Volume 8 Issue 8 August, 2017 Psychiatry at good old school When we go down the memory lane many things come to our mind and when asked to write to a journal I had hard time choosing something which will be of interest to all the readers. A non academic subject or the pranks we […]
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Volume 7 Issue 7 July, 2017 Psychiatry at primary care My first posting as a medical officer was at a primary health unit at a very remote area. I was the first full time MBBS doctor posted there. Not many patients were coming to PHU as they had no confidence about government hospitals. Many quacks […]
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Volume 7 Issue 6 June, 2017 Value of Ethical practice It was a decade and a half ago when I started working as lecturer in psychiatry in a general hospital. I came across a graduate patient with alcohol dependence syndrome whose family was fed up with his irresponsible behavior when he is inebriated. Twice he […]
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Volume 7 Issue 5 May, 2017 Menders of Mind It happened during my PGCET preparations and I had been in a confusion deciding as to what subject take up for my specialization. I was keen to take up OBG to make a name and fame. It was a sunny day when my friend invited me […]