Neocortical Impulses!

well BJP won with a realtive majority, it was almost a simple majority, missed it by just one! anyway, i had voted for them and they have won here in our constituency as well! and looks like they are the ones who will be forming the Govt., hope this one lasts the term. otherwise a pretty boring day, did not do much today-hardly studied(in front of the tv,watching election results)! another royal challengers match today, also the monaco grand prix, will watch these now.... and was really happy that ManU won the champions league, would have been happier if they had won without going to the penalty shootout.

about time our medicine postings started, they did from this monday. already we have seen quite a few interesting cases, 2 pleural effusion cases, copd with cor pulmonale, anemia for evaluation. but the most interesting case is about a guy who has diffuse, dull aching, bilateral chest pain since 3 years and breathlessness and bilateral pedal edema since 1 month. he also has cough when he gets breathless, a/w scanty sputum! evening rise of temp. also since a month. to top it all, he says he has diarrhoea since 3 years-hard to believe when he says he dint take any real treatment for it. its a case referred to our hospital(victora) from jayadeva. obg internals was okay. couldnt blog because net connection was down for almost(or more than) a week, first time this has happened with bsnl broadband. at last, bangalore royal challengers won a rare game yesterday, the last 4 overs were scintillating to watch! 3 wins off 12 games, they have moved off the bottom of the table at long last! p.s: th...

so soon? thats what i feel whenever some test/exam comes up! but these internals do really come very frequently in the final year, what with internals in all the postings you attend and theory as well. well, obg internals fast approaching, am trying to fast reading! still have quite a bit to read. skin postings are still going on(no internals in this one posting,thankfully), get over this saturday.we saw a case of pemphigus yesterday and a case of hansen`s today. lucky the patient was so co-operative today, imagine 30 odd "doctors" examining your hypoaesthetic patch, palpating all the nerves that can be palpated superficially(half of them tender for him), each one asking the same questions, .... found an interesting and funny image!

voted for the first time in my life today! was not exactly a happy or easy experience, they made me roam around looking for my serial no.,part no.,even though i had my voter id card....they were not even serious about checking my name in the list, first i was told to go to some other school, then i was told that my name is not there in the voter`s list, then i ,literally by myself, had to search my name in the list, which i got and you had to see their faces then!(and mine too)! i was quite angry then! and my sister did not have a voter id card, she just had to check her name and get her nos.....which she got quite easily. and to top it all, my parents` names were missing (for real,this time) from the voters` list, they who had been voting from so many years...... talk about the biggest democracy in the world!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That`s the postings i have right now, i am supposed to have anyway, but as the PGs have their exams going on, i don`t think it will start until friday atleast(more likely monday as thursday and saturday are holidays). that reminds me, saturday is the d-day,elections, its the first time i will be voting! The boy in the photo(photo is not mine, though i suffer from the same condition) has a skin disease called acne vulgaris . i have been suffering from this condition since 6-7 years, with exacerbations and (not exactly) remissions. i have been put on isotretinoin treatment since almost 2 months now and the pimples have cleared up(at long last!!!!!). its a 3 month course and lets see how long this remission lasts! The drug itself is a retinoid(a vit a analogue), has a page full of side effects! is prescribed only as a last resort in cases untreatable by other drugs and means(like mine).

well, our orthopaedics postings have got over after a 4 week posting. the 2 internals have been done and dusted.... the internals in instruments and x-rays were held on friday, were okay. watched the bangalore royal challengers v/s deccan chargers match yesterday, at last the royal challengers won a match at home, barely though! it was a closely contested match and took some fine last 2 balls from the bangalore boy(or man!) Anil Kumble for the bangaloreans to scrape through for a 3 run win, the narrowest of margins yet in the tournament! feeling a little unwell from yesterday morning, have right maxillary sinusitis from what i make of my symptoms and signs! anyway, today i am relaxing, have no plans of studying anything.... am posting this not knowing what to do now, maybe i will watch a movie!