Musings Of A New Doc

 

Across each of the scores of office desks that line any government office, we can find our typical government office clerk. They sip tea, eat biscuits, take breaks, comb their hair, rock their chair, and then, when their mood and motivation permits –do some paperwork that comes their way. They aren’t particularly fast at processing your applications, but the stash on their papertray stays slim. Every morning at their fixed time, they punch in their attendance card and occupy their chairs. They sit through the office hours, go about their stereotypical routine, and then they go home.

 

February is not the best of months to acclimatize in London. Granted, London’s fast-paced lifestyle is hard to catch up any time of the year, but for February, even the weather brings out a new surprise every morning. For my four weeks of electives break that I spent in London, I walked through thick snow (first that London received for the season), defied sharp cold winds, got wet in occasional showers and basked on some lovely sunny mornings. And then at the Hospital where I spent most of my time, the diversity of scenarios was even more exhilarating.

A yummy, mouth-watering gastronomical treat on any other day for any other person, this chef’s specialty cuisine acquires a whole new nuance at the microbiology lab.

We, the medical students, are oft tantalized and romanticized with exotic and fantastical descriptions of utterly boring conditions and diseases. But nowhere does it gets more senselessly delusional than in histopathology and micro.

Homologous recombination is a very essential DNA fixing and dividing mechanism. When it goes wrong, cells lose their ability to repair damaged DNA, which can lead to mutations causing uncontrolled proliferation and cancer.

Here, this Blackwell Publishing artwork deftly sums up the complicated maze of homologous recombination. Of course, you are not expected to know it all, but to have  a look can boost your ability to understand the pathogenesis of various tumors, besides helping you out in pure Biochem.

 

With every new drug that gets approval, or every innovative technology that gets honed, we believe that we are inching closer to our dream –our goal of easing pain of those in anguish and sufferings. Medicine is checking back on itself and improving at a phenomenal pace; every day of every week sees new research and development around the world. But even then, a healthcare crisis brews the world over as caregivers get increasingly detached and distant to the very patients they are meant to serve –a crisis of communication, empathy, and disregard for untold stories.

Medical careers are getting increasingly internationalized for young graduates around the world. The list of countries with opportunities for international graduates on offer is expanding fast. Every week comes with news about Board Exams and Certifications in different countries and how it is improving and evolving. It appears less of a problem for countries to assimilate international workforce into their healthcare. But how big is the issue of assimilation into a new country for the international graduates themselves?