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HAS CLINICAL MEDICINE BEEN TAKEN OVER BY HIGH TECHNOLGY INVESTIGATIVE MEDICINE?

Yes and I state that high tech. investigative medicine has in many cases taken over clinical medicine and in some cases caused irreversible damage to both the medical practitioner and the patient. The topic of this debate is actually most appropriate and relevant to my present status as a teacher in a new budding post graduate training institute. All these years I have worked in mgm hospital. Working in this hospital is like working with one hand and foot tied. We have been told to deliver 21st century patient care using vintage equipment and facilities. Despite that most of us have made a success of our work thanks to our clinical skills. What we lacked in equipment we made up by keen observation, thorough examination, compassion and care for patient and experience. Our work in MGM has enabled many of us to become better physicians in outside hospitals where we work. With the advent of medical students since last year, I along with my senior colleagues have become painful

Thailand Travelogue

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My family and me went to Thailand on March 29 to April 8, 2012. Some musings and observations. While we all thought our Mumbai airport privatized is world class we were relegated to gate 1A terminal 2 from which some low profile air flights depart. There were mosquitoes galore, and we did not know what to mind our boarding passes or our bodies. The opening of the BKK airways plane with mosquito repellant spray could not quite repel the resilient pests from Mumbai who were determined to take a free ride to Bangkok. Why do airways serve dinner at 2am?? Just to feed us and mark as fed. Why does hindu veg meal always have paneer? Vegans of the world must start a petition to serve us vegan meals every flight. All over the world immigration officers are glum stern and slow. Security in Thailand is very tight too. We went to Phuket, pronounced Pooket and not Fuket to avoid any double entendre. Tourist destinations all over the world are same, full of touts like our own Go