Lessons from LockdownI have to self-isolate “shielding” because I am on high dose steroids to control temporal, hopefully it will also be temporary, arteritis. After a life of frenetic activity, it was a shock to realise that an imposed physical slowdown also allowed a mental slowdown, allowing for an “on the thought” time for reflection […]
Category: Postgraduate Medical Journal
The Doctor will not Touch You – clinical medicine at a juncture(Abhijit Das)
We are currently going through a cataclysmic event in modern history. The SARS-Cov-2 pandemic has struck with an unprecedented global scale and ferocity: within a span of 6 months, the virus has infected more than 6 million people and continues to spread unabated around the world. This extraordinary pandemic has brought in one definitive paradigm […]
Being a Director of Medical Education in the time of COVID (Dr Catherine Matthews)
In March 2020 things changed, seismically, both at home and at work. As my 11 year old twins prepared for their first day of home school, I prepared to set off to a new kind of workplace. “What will you be doing at work today Mummy?’ ‘Well – it’s mostly about my ‘Director of […]
Torn between two countries: On being an International Medical Fellow during a global pandemic (by Dr Revathy Krishnamurthy MD and Dr Archya Dasgupta MD)
The global healthcare system is currently facing an unprecedented challenge in the form of the COVID-19 pandemic, propelling medical workers into the frontlines. The personal lives and professional careers of medical students, residents, fellows, and staff have been altered in many ways and to different degrees, each gearing to assume elevated roles and responsibilities. The International […]
Stopping the tide of Covid 19 by lockdown: India
Since December, 2019, coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid 19), originated from Wuhan, China, has rapidly spread across the globe, as evident by declaration of this latest threat by World Health Organization as pandemic in March, 2020. With exponential surge in morbidity and mortality, the world is witnessing the rampage by Covid 19. As on 19th April, […]
What makes Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) challenging compared to other Coronavirus pandemics? (Sai Gudi)
Within no time, Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has emerged as an outbreak, then as an epidemic, and finally now as a pandemic. However, Coronavirus (CoV) is not the first-ever occurrence as it was initially discovered in the 1960s, and since then, several types of CoV were identified amongst which Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-CoV (SARS-CoV) and Middle […]