Shalini, Nayantara, Jayashree, Rolli and me


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eBird: https://ebird.org/checklist/S140300679 (38 sp ( Read more... )

I had a long meeting (made longer by the delay in getting his visiting cards!) with Dr Manish Mattoo, the head of Fortis Hospitals, Bannerghatta Road. I had a few major points to convey ( Read more... )

DOCTORS AND ETHICS ( Read more... )

Long and detailed post about my follow up on the bad billing practices at Fortis. Read only if you feel like it ( Read more... )

2 weeks after the surgery that I described

here the knee injury that I had sustained in Madhya Pradesh (a young man boarding the train to Bangalore in a rush pushed me from behind, and I fell with my knee hitting the corner of a tin trunk, leaving me in excruciating pain) flared up again, and I could not even move a few steps ( Read more... )

I am going crazy repeating the facts to every person who is enquiring, "What Actually Happened ?". Well, here it is ( Read more... )

On Friday, 11th Jan 2013, a few of us were going for a birding trail, and we were waiting at the chai shop at Mantri Residency Apartments, on Bannerghatta Road, for a couple of others to arrive ( Read more... )

Am very sad...but also boiling with anger and helplessness. Someone from the family who've practically brought me up had come to visit Chennai from Kolkata, where she lives. Last night she was unwell...and was taken by ambulance to Malar Hospital, where she was refused admission because, they said, they had a doctors' strike. After more confusion, ( Read more... )

One would think that a hospital, being an abode of ailment, accidents, and amelioration, would be a sombre place, and one that could not, possibly, yield much in terms of entertainment. But no! Here's the Hospital Visitor Multiple-Ring Circus! Behold the poor victim, The Patient (TP), lying hapless on hes (that's her/his) bed of pain, with that ( Read more... )