Spice Route India Newsletter
Newsletter : Vol. 2, Issue 1, 26 January 2021
Season’s greetings!
Spice Route India Movement and the editorial team wishes everyone a safe and healthy new year ahead.
The year 2020 has come to an end. And it belonged to the frontline healthcare workers who have worked tirelessly, relentlessly against the COVID-19 pandemic. With the advent of several effective vaccines (Covaxin, Moderna, Pfizer, Oxford), the vaccination drive against COVID-19 is imminent and the frontline healthcare workers are the first beneficiaries who are soon receiving an effective armour to fight this war. These are times of uncertainties, continuous learning, and loss. But as they say, great changes are often preceded by chaos.
The pandemic has made the gaps and inefficiencies in our healthcare system more apparent and hence taught us several lessons. And one of these is the realisation of ....... continue reading
Warm greetings to all !
It is more than 6 months after the release of the first edition of The Spice Route India Newsletter. Hope everyone enjoyed the first edition. Thank you all for the feedback and appreciation.
We are going through tough times, with the pandemic affecting our life and work in multiple ways. Despite the hurdles, we have tried our best to continue with the activities of The Spice Route India Movement.
The newsletter is a wonderful opportunity for all young family physicians to showcase our talents and also be a part of the history of Family Medicine in India.
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Well, its been six months since we launched our newsletter. We are happy to release the next edition, albeit with a delay.
The recovery from the pandemic has kept us all busy, personally and professionally. Many of us went through tough times during the last year and came out victorious in many different ways. The lessons learnt are enough to make us understand the importance of being for each other in every situation.
Spice Route India – AFPI is one such family that has been together , and stuck with each other . To sum it up, we have had online sessions for post graduates and new young practitioners to discuss clinical cases, PG orientation for new joinees........ continue reading....
The beginning of the calendar year is at its heart a fantasy of newness and clean slates—of the chance to do things differently and with more attention to purpose. In reality, it’s also one of the most challenging times of our lifetime , as we are returning from a global pandemic and flying straight into an overfull schedule.
Our second issue is a call to take a breath and remember what it is that we’re doing, and why. You won’t find any New Year’s resolutions, but you will encounter many different angles on the ideas and talents of our fellow family physicians.
It gives me immense pleasure to present before you the second issue of our Spice route newsletter . The first issue of our newsletter received an overwhelming response by everyone including students and faculties from all over the world. FM 360 program is on a stand still all around the world due to our global pandemic. continue reading....
By engaging the young minds of budding family physicians of the country, we aim to nurture, guide and encourage them to take this discipline to greater heights
We aim to be able to provide high quality primary health care, which focuses on the body, mind and all the social aspects of well being Develop networking skills and partake responsibilities in all the National, Regional and International events pertaining to the discipline
Let us begin this spooky tale
backwards, so- this ail
arises when the brain
or its parts are in strain
due to dearth of ......
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Dr MN MENON:My journey began from Government Medical College, Kottayam in 1969 in my teens, like most of us of our times, my focus turned to modern medicine and public health, and my professional practice began in 1975. As we all can see, scientific updates, inventions, discoveries and technical innovations are happening globally at a fast pace. So much so, I have witnessed tremendous changes in modern medicine and health care delivery system in our country since my undergraduate days. In my long innings in the field of modern medicine, I have seen .....
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Being free from disease and improving the quality of life is what every individual desires in his lifetime. According to International Diabetes Federation( IDF) data, 70% of 70 million diabetics in India do not know they have a disease. A person with dizziness will be spinning around different specialists and hospitals yet his dizziness may persist or worsen. What is forgotten by patients is that in the quest for a solution to their symptoms, running with their wallet, moving from specialist to specialist, there is a forgotten hero who can help them from this trend of "DOCTOR SHOPPING". COVID-19 Pandemic has made us think of an alternate solution to this problem and probably has made us pursue a warrior....
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".....And remember to have food at the proper time and do take adequate rest. Okay?"
"Yes Maa... I'll do that. You keep saying this to me every day."
"You'll understand when you become a parent yourself"
"Okay mom... Not again!... Please."
"Okay, Okay... Fine... You said your duties are still very hectic, when do you study then?"
"I'm trying to squeeze it in my ........
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After a very tiring day with much of it spent inside the cumbersome PPE, managing patients with COVID-19 along with my colleagues in a 200 bedded block, I was having my dinner at around 11 pm, all alone and away from family (which is a common occurrence today with most doctors). That’s when I got a call from the ICU asking me to go in person and break a piece of bad news to one of my patients. It was to convey that her husband had passed away a few minutes ago in our ICU.
I knew that this would be a tough experience for me, but I decided to do it in a proper way as per my training in 'palliative ......
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It was just past midnight, I was on ICU duty, and there came this familiar young boy who was about as old as me, brought in by my peers with polytrauma. He was familiar because he had been with us for over a month now. Initially, he had shown some improvement, but it was all downhill from there onwards. We residents dreaded the day we would have to write and sign that summary- a lengthy paperwork on one hand, but in reality, it was a precious life - far too young, full of dreams and aspirations, nevertheless, gone too soon. I was the chosen one on that fateful night who had to shoulder the burden of writing.........
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Tring...Tring...Tring...
The familiar sound greeted Santosh, as he started his morning walk. He didn't need to turn around to see who it was, up and about, at this early hour.
He smiled and waved as the cyclist passed him.
Dr. Bimal, smiled back, his usual wide smile, which could brighten up anyone's day.
"How are you, Santosh? Good to see you exercising so early. Please continue. Nothing can be better than exercising early in the morning", said the doc.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous impact on both the physical and mental health of people throughout the world. Compared to the pre-pandemic times, no one feels safe stepping outside their houses, not even for work. A number of studies have found that the major brunt has been experienced by the young and the adolescents. (1)
This article reviews why and in what ways the adolescent and youth have been affected by the pandemic.
Before the pandemic, youth was always on the go, attending schools, colleges, and other institutions having good interpersonal interaction among peers as well as mentors along with their extended family, cousins, and so on. But the lockdown and home confinement suddenly disrupted their studies, physical activities, outdoor fun, and peer interaction (2). The unexpected closure of schools and colleges led to a barrier for the young minds to have the usual emotional
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When most of the northern part of the country was reeling under high temperatures in May, West Bengal was battling the cyclone Amphan.
Adding to the trauma of COVID 19, the people in the southern fringes of the state of West Bengal had to face the wrath of nature a second time over in the midst of this pandemic. The already dwindling economy in that region, from March, due to stoppage of tourism, was severely hit by this cyclone named as Amphan. Food supply was severely affected, among other things. People were starving due to lack of food and potable water. AFPI West Bengal, along with Spice Route members .....................
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When we come out of high school, like a premature baby, some extremely essential organs have not developed to take in the air which is not a 100% oxygen or to take in food which we cannot digest.
If I were to give myself a neonatal ICU, I would parcel all the equipment sterile and pack in wise words back in time.
There wasn’t a need of a C-Section-I could have come out on my own
One of the worst mistakes I made was to blindly follow my role models then- to decide my specialty from the beginning of the first year. “I am going to be the first female plastic surgeon to practice in Bharuch”, said my inner self ......
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Aaye Re Chhute Aaye Pujor Gondho Eshechhe… A famous song written and composed by the famous Salil Chowdhury, for me, has always crisply described the sentiment of Durga Pujo being around the corner. Notun Jaama, Notun Goyena (New Clothes, New Jewellery), the excitement of Pujor Baajaar (Durga Pujo Shopping)..........
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1. A 5-year-old boy is brought to the office because he has had pain in his left knee for the past three days. The patient walks with a mild limp because of the pain. He has no history of trauma to the knee. He had symptoms of cold one week ago but is otherwise healthy. Vital signs are within normal limits. Physical examination shows full range of motion of the left......
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