What was your most embarrassing moment? Imagine being away from home, stuck in an emergency, your smartphone dead due to low charge, and you can’t remember your wife’s mobile number! I found myself in such a situation once. Another time, our senior colleague Dr. Deepak Haldipur Ji could recite my mobile number effortlessly, yet I
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When I struggled with temporal bone radiology, a great quote by Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman came to my rescue: “If you can’t explain something to a first-year student, then you haven’t really understood it.” This quote guided me to simplify and comprehend temporal bone radiology. I further mastered this topic by adopting another of Feynman’s
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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 hippocampi! Eleanor Maguire, a neuroscientist at University College London, published a fascinating study, “Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers,” in 2000. The London city road system is
Read moreI 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 winter, in hilly terrain, was worth the lessons learnt. However, I never imagined the life
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