SECOND OPINION: A surgeon’s view of healthcare and policy in India
True endurance
Jamil was ten when he started chewing ‘khat’. As he entered his 20, Jamil was detected with liver disease. In 2017, Jamil underwent a successful liver transplant, with his wife as a donor.. A few days ago we did a video call. He introduced us to his children, something he had never done before
The Superstar Illness
With a celebrity, one wonders whether the attention is on the message or the person. The surrounding spectacle drowns out the message. Even worse, the medium becomes the message. And illness a metaphor for herocentric formula films
Study of pre-hospital care, patterns of injury and outcomes of suburban railway accident victims in Mumbai, India
India has one of the largest railway networks, with a high incidence of railway-related accidents and fatality rate of 150/million passengers per year. We evaluated the pre-hospitalization period, pattern of injury and outcome of train accident victims in a metropolitan city.
Letter to the Editor: Congenital Extrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts (Abernethy Malformation): A New Variant
Letter to the Editor: Congenital Extrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts (Abernethy Malformation): A New Variant.
Critical questions in times of Covid
Mumbai embarks on a pathbreaking experiment of a massive expansion of ICU facilities to deal with one needs to realise that there are challenging areas difficult to fix quickly but the earlier we recognise their importance the faster we will move from optics to effective action.
Chronicle of a death foretold
Why does a city of this size, resources and claim to modernity not have a developed, centralised system that co-ordinates from a nodal point where updated information on the availability.
A tragedy goes viral!
With their local health systems broken and unable to provide specialised care, many like the Rajbhars brave the challenge of travelling to a big, alien, expensive city with hope. They sleep on the streets or in the corridors of hospitals, tending to their loved ones with amazing resilience.
Rare tumour reveals a rarer person
Neuroendocrine tutors are now increasingly being detected during scans for other problems, which means that they are not as rare as we think.