What was your most embarrassing moment? You are away from home, stuck in an emergency, your smartphone has died due to low charge, and you cannot remember your wife’s mobile number! I was stuck in such a situation once! Another time was when our senior colleague …
Learning surgeries the Walt Disney way! An awed visitor to Disneyland exclaimed with appreciation, “How unfortunate Walt Disney was? He didn’t live long enough to see his own creation!” A passerby replied, “Walt Disney had already envisioned this even before …
To be a great surgeon, enhance your ASKability – Part 1 One most important lesson I learned during the early part of my life is that we have to ask first to get what we want in life. If we don’t ask, the answer will be automatic ‘no.’ I had …
“To follow the path: look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.” ― Zen. To effectively train and master surgical skills, we need three essential factors – 3Fs: Focus, Feedback, …
Hi there, I have a desire to get MRI studies of the brains of Dr. Vijayendra, Dr. Jain, or Dr. Janaki to assess the size of their hippocampus! Eleanor Maguire, a neuroscientist at University College London, published a fascinating study, …
When I struggled to learn temporal bone radiology, one great quote by the Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman came to my rescue. It said, “If you can’t explain something to a first-year student, then you haven’t really understood.” This quote helped …
Good morning friends, Sometimes life’s lessons can come from unexpected corners. For example, the ruthless forensic psychiatrist ‘Hannibal the cannibal’ has quoted in the movie Red Dragon, “Our scars have the power to remind us the past was real.” Thankfully, …
I picked up two key learning strategies as an NCC cadet during the pre-university course: deconstruction and deliberate practice. Daily running with a 12 kg backpack and a .303 rifle with a bayonet in hand, drenched in sweat in chilly …
A weekend with a maestro! “You won’t get much time to read here. So, keep your eyes and ears open. You will learn everything!” This is the first piece of advice I received from one of our senior residents on the …
9 May 2021Chitradurga The last time I was driven to the edge of my seat was when I watched the movies “Uri – the surgical strike,” “Missing Mangal,” and “Tanhaji.” I am not fond of Bollywood movies. However, these movies …
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