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…
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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…
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,…
Read moreMastery in any field demands the three Ps: practice, persistence, and patience, coupled with an enormous degree of the three Ds: devotion, discipline, and drilling (training). Swami Sivananda once said, “The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph….
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The last time I was driven to the edge of my seat was when I watched the movies “Uri – The Surgical Strike,” “Mission Mangal,” and “Tanhaji.” I am not fond of Bollywood movies, but these were rare exceptions. They were some of the very few movies…
Read more“When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of distress and anxiety; If I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without any pain. From this, I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me, and attracting…
Read more“I am already very busy; how can I find more time to learn more?” This is one of the most common excuses given by some of our colleagues. In 2005, I was at the peak of my clinical practice. I was teaching at a medical school, traveling in India and…
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I became a laughingstock on social media when I claimed that there are more than 800 surgeries in the Otorhinolaryngology specialty. Even I was surprised when I stumbled upon this number. A few years back, I joined a corporate hospital as a senior consultant…
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