healthcare
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Colours of Life.
It was a beautiful sunny day yesterday. Finally it’s summers, and it’s good to have those days where I don’t need layers and thick puffy jackets. It’s green everywhere and I have seen flowers in almost every colour. For the first time, I have seen nature in so many colours over the past months. White… Continue reading
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International Pathology Day
I have been a Pathologist for almost 17 years now. When I entered the pathology department as a junior resident in 2004, the branch was fascinating and enigma to me.However, I didn’t think highly about the branch then. For me Yet, it was a leftover. I couldn’t get what others at lower rank could get… Continue reading
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Tears of frustration and Tears of gratitude
Nothing in my medical education could have prepared me for the scene which is unfolding in my home country now. Indians had let down their guards early. Ever since the first wave was receding, people had stopped wearing masks, partying and travelling as if to make up the lost year, and the Indian government was… Continue reading
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Where is the Trust ? #MondayMusings
The other day Hubby gets a call in the middle of night. One of the patients has just been shifted from ER to ICU.. the patient, an elderly male is in shock, needs to be intubated ASAP. Hubby changes and rushes back to hospital. The patient has been intubated and access to IV lines secured… Continue reading
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Behind the scenes in a Pathology Lab!
A pathology lab is usually always in frenzy. Samples coming in from Emergency, Outpatient Department, Inpatients and reports being signed out. The analyzers are in constant motion, quality checks, stat samples, routine samples. However, I may ask my technologists to slow down and not mistakes, they will be in a hurry to clear the orders.… Continue reading
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The Lone Pathologist !
Another hectic day at work it was. As I was sipping my coffee, my 10 year old came and said,”Such a stressful job you have! Why did you become a pathologist?” That night I kept thinking ” Why did I end up becoming one?” My parents were educators, and I grew up in the vicinity… Continue reading
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Healthcare and Insurances !!!
A few months back One of my husband’s cousin who has a kid with cerebral palsy ended up losing her child after paying a hefty sum to hospital where she was treated. I know there was nothing the doctors could do to save her other than make her last few days pain free. The cost… Continue reading
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The BoardRoom
12 weeks .. 12 weeks was the time given to him to bring the profits up. He had tried every marketing strategy he and his team could come up with. Healthcare no longer remained a patient – doctor profession. It had become another business with cut throat competition. He had tried to lure doctors with… Continue reading
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When Healthcare became a Business!
When I was small, I always looked up to them. How miraculously they could transform you from the sick child to a healthy one! As I grew up, the fascination became an admiration, till the day I landed on the steps of a medical college. The gruesome reality, as was always projected, started to fade… Continue reading
About Me.
I am a histopathologist based in UK. I find solace in my work, nature and books. My musings are my own personal beliefs.
The Vagabond 