The standard of radiology in India has significantly improved since the time when I was a medical student. Primarily the access to high end imaging technology has seen rapid development in the past two decades. While in the past, imaging in India was focused on conventional radiology and ultrasound, today it has evolved into sophisticated and […]
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We recently celebrated our 17th anniversary at TRS. When asked to say a few words I reflected over the things that had remained constant since the beginning and what had changed. In terms of the aspects of our organizational culture that I feel are a constant and have remained so since the beginning of TRS, these
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I recently attended an interesting lecture hosted by the New India Foundation on the subject of How to Fix Primary Education in India, by an eminent speaker from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof Esther Duflo, in which she elegantly described, using randomized controlled trial data generated by her organization’s field research, what is erring
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An awful lot is being said today about radiologist burnout. Hardly a week passes by without a dire article on the subject on the front page of a radiology journal. Surveys indicate that the majority of radiologists are burned out, and some of these even delve into associated pathologies such as substance abuse to indicate
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There is a great story in the Indian mythological tour de force the Mahabharata about Arjuna and Duryodhana, representing the forces of good and evil respectively, coming to visit their mentor Lord Krishna to seek his support for their respective armies during battle. When they arrive he is asleep on his bed. Duryodhana who arrives
Visibility in radiology reporting is everything! Read More »
A trip of mine to Paris three years ago was bizarrely disrupted by the river Seine flooding its banks. This week once again the Seine is threatening to flood and the mayor of Paris is quoted as saying that this is “clearly a question of the town adapting to climate change” Along with other recent
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As the world transforms itself in response to the COVID crisis, healthcare companies, being at the forefront of the battle against the virus, have also been forced to adapt. In our own organisation which provides teleradiology reporting services and technology to healthcare institutions around the world, we have had to make rapid changes as well, and
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Since its emergence at the end of last year, the Coronavirus has been continuously at the forefront of our consciousness and mind space. Reflecting on its impact on our collective psyche, it struck me that our psychological response to this microbe and its effects parallels what the eminent psychologist Elizabeth Kubler-Ross in the late 1960s
The Human Mind’s Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic- The Five Stages of Grief Read More »
In the words of Martin Luther King “Only in the darkness can you see the stars”. The Covid-19 pandemic continues to loom like a specter over our country, and the world. Despite weeks of lockdown the numbers of new infections continues to rise or remain static. The only difference seems to be that the geography
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As recently as July 30, 2020, Dr Anthony Fauci went on record saying with typical understatement, that the conflicting guidance on mask-wearing (in response to the US president’s tweets on the subject) was ‘not helping the situation’. Even at this advanced stage of the coronavirus pandemic, the fact that the importance of one of the
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