I tweet primarily in English and Marathi, and occasionally in other languages.
Topics: Surgery, MedEd, Cricket, Trivia, Marathi, Linguistics, Miraj town and its vicinity.
A few of notable tweets:
माझे मराठीतील ठळक ट्विट्स:
Krishna's father is वसुदेव and not वासुदेव. वासुदेव is Krishna himself.
Unfortunately this nuance is lost in common Romanized transliteration to Vasudev. Gn
Today I learnt from a second MBBS student.
1. Second year MBBS is only of one year.
2.Forensic Medicine is part of third year part one.
The second year MBBS was the best period of MBBS and they've ruined it!
Added MBBS to my twitter username.
When I write MS ( Master of Surgery ) as my degree it is implied that I have already passed MBBS.
But today the value of MBBS is diluted too much by all. We specialists are also partially responsible. Let's strengthen MBBS again and flaunt it.
Dear resident doctors, be mindful of this fact while communicating with patient's attendants. Doctors from periphery refer patients there because of limited resources and not because they don't know the line of management.
#TipsForNewDocs
@ShashiTharoor
I am a Hindu and for me the
Cow is poojaniya.
Unless it's against the national constitution/law or physically harmful matters of faith should not be questioned is my personal opinion.
99.9999%+ Hindus don't have a cowdung bath.
World perception is made by Media and not govt.
When in 3rd MBBS our professor of pediatrics used to tell us that the richest natural source of Vitamin C is Amla (Indian Gooseberry) and the cheapest is the tablets. It was a surprise but actual calculation validates it.
100g Amla yields 600mg vitC
500mg VitC tablet is 1.5 Rs.
@ShashiTharoor
Most Hindus know that bathing with cowdung is potentially harmful and has no role in COVID.
They don't practice it.
But using this act done by a few peoe to belittle the entire community and the nation is petty and illogical both.
Effective immunity against COVID is generated only in 2 ways.
1. Natural infection
2. Vaccine
The former has risks:
loss of income for 15 days. getting admitted ~ 20%
dying around 1%
infecting loved ones potentially 100%
#Vaccines
: none.
Choose wisely
Junior residents in India are fully fledged doctors and not ' junior doctors'.
They have a permanent registration and a licence to practice. Stop calling them 'junior doctors'
Hence I feel houseman and registrar were better terms than JR.
A big shout out to Aasha workers and municipal nurses who are going door to door to sensitise people to have vaccine.
They have encouraged many to have it.
It's been twenty years since I passed final MBBS.
Am peeved to read a post stating that in my UG college nobody attends lectures! We did a rare mass bunk, but it used to be a once-a-year or max twice thrill event and regular lectures used to have 80%+ attendance. What changed?
मराठी भाषेसाठी
१.रोज एक स्फूट (पोस्ट) मराठीतून लिहा.
२.रोज एक मराठी वृत्तपत्र वाचा.
३.महिन्यातून एक मराठी पुस्तक वाचा.
४.घरी मराठीत बोला.
५.मराठी बोलण्याने इंग्रजी शिकण्यात, बोलण्यात कोणताही अडथळा येत नाही (स्वानुभव)
६. इतर भाषांना नावे ठेऊन मराठी टिकत नाही.
#ट्विटरसंमेलन
#Dasara
is special for me for a personal reason too!
It was on the day of Dasara I started my surgical gastroenterology clinic at Pathak Hospital Miraj nine years ago.
It's my work anniversary.
Everytime I eat Idli I am reminded of one of my school teachers. Weird it sounds but it's true and associated with an important turning point in my academic life.
#Sunday
#Leisure
#LongThread
Image from: Wikimedia commons
This Monday in early morning I lost my grandmother.
Going to Ajol is always special for kids and Ajjis make it more special.
She used to write an inland-letter to me before every annual exam. It had a lot of advice.
I rue the fact that I didn't preserve them well.
Miss her
GMC Nagpur is the best. It's close to the zero mile of India. One of the biggest campuses in Asia that has own gym & swimming pool to chill. No itch to tom tom 'we're the best' at each drop of hat. Still ample clinical exposure, good hostel,and very good strike rate at PG and SS
Before it became 'preventive and social medicine' it existed in the form of 'Hygiene and Public Health' and before Park, this was the standard textbook of the subject.
#MedTwitterIndia
#HistoryMed
#मातृभाषादिवस #मिरज
मिरजेची #मराठी:
१. मिरजला, जतला, बेडगला वगैरे पुस्तकी रूपे आहेत पण अस्सल मिरजकर कायम मिरजेला, जतेला, बेडगेला अशी समान्यरूपे वापरतो.
२. खरा मिरजकर कायम हुडकतो बाकीचे लोक त्या क्रियेस शोधणे म्हणतात.
३. होय की! सलग तीन वाक्ये की न वापरता कशी शक्य आहेत?
Herd Immunity saves the herd.
It might or might not save an individual.
Vaccine saves individual life one at a time and also the herd as herd is nothing but many lives together.
Hence for an individual the vaccine is good irrespective of the herd immunity.
This is gold
P. L. Deshpande on early Marathi theatre, the legendary dramatist Annasaheb Kirloskar, and how classical music was elegantly reimagined for stage
The 1st of August used to be the starting day of the first year of medical education for so many years, sigh COVID has changed it all. Hopefully it reverts to normalcy next year.
I have worked with resident colleagues from all corners of my country. I have worked at Municipal Goverment and Private setups.
The hubris of big institiute seat goes bust just in 2 years of private practice.
Never forget the preference Branch> Degree >College.
#MedEdIndia
I exist on twitter with my real life credential. Because of this baseless allegation by a stranger I might be targeted and harmed in real life too. I make it categorically clear that I do not make fun of anyone based on their faith/gender/caste. I have reported this tweet
Anyone can open the abdomen but it takes a well trained surgeon to close it well. Anyone can don PPE kit but it takes a well trained person to doff it well without risking self and others. Training matters in things that matter. Practice well before going on actual duty.
Good to see JR1s getting time to post on social media.
In residency especially the first year priorities in using free time were
1. Sleep
2. Talk with gf/spouse/fam
3. Have a bath
4. Eat
Remaining is luxury.
I spent that luxury window on reading books (texts most of the time)
@daactar_sahaab
@DrSaurav5
Academics don't always correlate with what you post on SM.
Nobody can deny the hard work earning a super speciality seat based on what you post on social media.
At the same time being a topper is not a qualification for insulation from being called out or posting crap.
Twitter is for everyone, so is
#MedTwitterIndia
I don't (as if it matters but still) have problems UG students / interns / residents having opinions on topics
Problem is when a conversation lacks any of
1. Relevance
2. appropriate tone and tenor
3. Public platform awareness
Shrimad Bhagwadgeeta remains the first ever Sanskrit book to be printed on a press in Devanagari script. It is also the first one in Devanagari script. Its printing was commissioned in 1805CE at Miraj by then chief of Miraj Jahgir Gangadhar Govind Patwardhan.
#GitaJayanti
For earning money there many ways.
But great things MBBS offers is
1. Job security.
2. Job satisfaction
3. An opportunity to interact with people of all kind of socio-economic strata.
It's a unique learning experience and humbling.
4. An essential primer to become a specialist.
#रविवार फावल्या वेळेत केलेलं #स्फूट लेखन.
मला मराठीच्या व्याकरणात इतर भाषांपेक्षा वेगळे काय वाटते तर शब्दाचे सामान्यरूप. असा बदल इंग्रजीत तर दिसत नाही व हिंदीतही एव्हडा लक्षणीय नाही. त्यावर थोडेसे. #मराठी
@DrDhruvchauhan
It’s a shame that even after doubling the number of PG seats this nuisance continues. If the number of residents increases they should be deployed in rotation so that they get adequate sleep and some time. Hauling all 24*7 just because that’s a tradition is not done.
#राष्ट्रीयशिक्षणदिवस
प्रत्येक डिग्रीच्या आधी हे शिकवा
1. नागरिक शास्त्र: सात बारा कसा काढावा, प्रॉपर्टी कार्ड कसे काढावे, महापालिका कोणकोणती पट्टी वसुल करते, शॉप ऍक्ट लायसन्स कसे काढावे, वाहतूक नियम
2. अकौंटिंग, शेअरबाजार, बँकिंग यांची तोंडओळख
त्याशिवाय पदवीदान करू नये
I am a Hindu and hurt when someone calls my dharma a terrible religion. A majority of Hindus is tolerant. But tolerance is confused by some as a licence to say anything without minding the sensitivity of those following own dharma. Distasteful! You mind own religion I mind own.
Must be a terrible religion to be part of if all it takes is a holy book of another religion and a rice bag to get out of it.
Wonder why anyone would be angry people are converting to another religion instead of being ashamed of being in a religion that people want to get out of
I haven't seen a single tweet by a non-medico about today's
@IMAIndiaOrg
protest.
That's how much is interest of general public in doctors.
Or I am not following adequate non-doctor handles.
जल्पक हा संस्कृत शब्द जल्प् या धातू पासून आला आहे जल्पक म्हणजे garrulous वाचाळ (Apte Sanskrut to English Dictionary). ट्रोल साठी जल्पक या संज्ञेचा वापर मराठीमध्ये लोकसत्ता वृत्तपत्रात श्री
@girishkuber
यांनी केला आहे.
Dr B. D. Pujari, a senior surgeon from Miraj and a former president of the
@ASI_India
is no more.
He breathed his last at his own home today early morning.
Miraj has lost one of its most illustrious surgeons in its glorious medical history and a great human being.
#SoMe4Surgery
Rank matters a lot but only for the admission purpose.
My ranks were good enough to get
LTMMC for UG
GMCN for PG
And AIG for DNB-SS in GI Surgery.
But they're too useless now to remember.
What matters most is competent skills and empathy and that's not related to rank/grammar.
@daactar_sahaab
@DrSaurav5
Why mix things?
1. The picture in meme was a bad choice even it's a public domain picture and FOE supporters will debate on this but worse was the text as it was a unacceptable and gross generalisation about lady interns.
2.Tweet is deleted which was the first right thing to do
#NEET
-PG aspirants the exam is just 24 days away. Stay off from social media and solve only MCQs for 360 hours. No time to think and analyse hence read no new theory. It's time to use the short term memory to its best.
Wish you all the best.
See you all on 6th Jan.
More cringe when MBBS doctors refer to their practice as "Allopathy".
It isn't. It's "modern medicine".
We no longer practice the same things that were practiced in 1842 when the word "Allopathy" was coined.
@KamathGurudutt
'Allopathic' is as an obsolete construct as 'Desi dawa and English Dawa'. In 19th century 'allopathic' treatment had its own esoteric theories. If people are still stuck with 'allopathy' then the modern medicine docs need lot of dialogue and clearing the perception in general.
A dream taking shape!
@Pathak_Trust
is building a new children's home and old-age-home in Miraj. The construction began in June and now it is taking taking shape. The proposed buildings will look like as shown in the picture.
Sincerely thankful to the donors for their help.
A patient post 3 months of Freys Procedure for chronic calcific pancreatitis met at a public place back to his job and pain free , gained weight(he had lost 9 months of job due to pain). When a surgery does exactly what it's intended to it gives the joy every surgeon yearns for.
Dr Ashok Dhonde, an eminent laparoscopic and AWR surgeon and the secretary of Surgical Society Sangli is no more. He always encouraged us younger surgeons. Had learnt a few useful tips about laparosopic surgery from him.
Very shocking and sad!
Heartfelt condolences 🙏
Today on
#VijayaDashami
I complete 5 years since I joined my parents at Pathak Hospital Miraj.
It's been quite a learning experience, still many dreams to realize. Very grateful to my patients for giving an opportunity to serve and shall always strive to do my best for them.
Reminds me of the first year MBBS physiology tutorials wherein students pricked themselves with a lancet, pipetted out own blood to count RBCs and WBCs.
Do they still teach that way in the first year?
This is a haemocytometer which is can be used to measure levels of white and red blood cells. It was invented by French anatomist and histologist Louis-Charles Malassez (1842-1909). The glass microscope slide has a rectangular indentation that creates a precision volume chamber.
#MedTwitterIndia
and threads: a thread.
A short introduction to a topic by someone who doesn't thread a lot.
Picture attracts clicks.
Attach one in the beginning
1/n
107th birth Anniversary of my grandfather Late Dr N. R. Pathak.
He was a cofounder (along with his brother and mother) of the Pathak Trust, also MLA of
#Miraj
from 1972-78. But what inspires me the most is his medical practice which can be summed up as ‘empathy with excellence’
A doctor friend so naive to
@twitter
and never had an account here asked me "what's a blue tick?"
I told him "it's the vector responsible for transmission of authenticity"
@Amit_smiling
Must be a 1st class coach, shooting this in 2nd class compartment is a mission impossible. Nonetheless brilliant video that captures the compulsion of the average mumbaikar which goads him into this and often called as 'spirit of Mumbai'. Nobody does this for fun. It's compulsion
#NewProfilePic
Using this profile pic for a day.
Never been an anon on Twitter but want to make it clear that if this profile pic makes you unfollow me so do it asap.
जे काही आहे त्यांच्या कृपाशीर्वादाने आहे.
It won't make a difference to me.
Chronic Pancreatitis with both endocrine and exocrine deficiency leads to financial malnutrition as well. The cost of therapy per month is around ₹6000. Most patients find it pinching on their wallet.
@DaktarBatra
@ShashiTharoor
Opposing cowdung bath : logical
I am NOT supporting it rather advise against it.
Don't know anyone who supported it.
Using a stray incidence to show my country in bad light : unacceptable
Blaming cowdung bath for rise of black fungus: nothing but agenda.
गोष्ट कूपरे नावाच्या पॅरिस जवळील खेड्यातील १८१२ सालची आहे. एक ३ वर्षाचा मुलगा वडलांच्या कारखान्यात खेळत होता. खेळता खेळता त्याला आरी एका डोळ्यात घुसली व त्या डोळ्याची दृष्टी गेली. व पुढील सहा महिन्यात दुसऱ्या डोळ्याची दृष्टीही पूर्णपणे गेली
Please refrain from sharing photographs of patients without their consent.
What's been there for years should apply for
#COVID19
patients too.
No RT from me.
Will earn less RTs but will be more sensitive for patients.
If the patients themselves /officials posting then would RT.
Evidence based medicine is always great but sadly when it comes to actual clinical practice it becomes eminence based medicine. Unless the eminent doctors take up evidence based practices it does not percolate to wider general level.
दादोबा पांडुरंग आधुनिक मराठीचे प्रथम व्याकरणकार!
त्यांच्या पुस्तकातील मराठी व्याकरणाचा एक नियम: "#मराठी भाषेत
सगळे ओकारांत शब्द पुल्लिंगी असतात त्याला फक्त दोन अपवाद आहेत : बयो आणि बायको."
त्यामुळे हा नियम सर्व इंग्रजी तत्सम शब्दांनाही लावतात. उदा. फोटो, स्टुडिओ, रेशो, बायो,
@DrSubhasMBBS
Rank ka aachar dalna hai kya sir?
I topped all surgery exams when in MBBS but my rank in PGCET wasn't good enough to get me surgery seat in my alma mater.
But instead I got a govt seat elsewhere in the 1st attempt. Am proud of about my PG dept too.
How you treat patients >>>Rank
महाराष्ट्रातील Gastrointestinal Surgery (पचनसंस्थे���ी निगडित शस्त्रक्रिया) च्या आद्यप्रवर्तकांपैकी तीन ख्यातनाम सर्जन्सची आत्मचरित्रे फार प्रेरणादायी आहेत.
डॉ. वि. ना. श्रीखंडे .. 'आणि दोन हात'
डॉ. रवींद्र बापट ... ' वॉर्ड क्र. ५'
डॉ. बिंदुमाधव पुजारी ... 'तर मी का नाही?'
#वाचन
There are certain words that are common in both
#Marathi
and
#Hindi
. As both languages use the Devnagari script, the words are spelt the same. There can be confusion when these words have different meanings in each language. Attaching a list of such words. Additions welcome.
The guilt of transmitting infection to loved ones is more painful than the anxiety of its complications in one's own case. Till they're discharged uneventfully and complete 2 weeks of 'danger zone' period it's always a tightrope walk. (Mood 👍🏽👍🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽)
Don't take
#COVID19
lightly
It’s deeply unfair that students of India are asked to sit national exams during the Covid-19 pandemic and while millions have also been impacted by the extreme floods. I stand with their call to
#PostponeJEE_NEETinCOVID
@aparanjape
@indiainpixels
Till 1970 Maharashtra was a primarily शाळू (sorghum/jowar) grower and consumer. Then sorghum got replaced with sugarcane in the field( ref:this year's economic survey of MH) and wheat on the platter (self evident observation).
#OTD
in 1674 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj enthroned himself at Raygad & proclaimed Swarajya (selfrule). He was the first Hindu sovereign to do so after the collapse of Yadavas in Maharashtra and the Vijayanagara empire in the Deccan.He inspires us today and forever.
#त्रिवार_वंदन
#दहावी ला मॅट्रिक म्हणणारी पिढी आता आजोबा, पणजोबा वर्गात मोडते. पण मुंबई विद्यापीठाची पहिली मॅट्रिक परीक्षा १८५९ साली झाली व शालांत परीक्षा म्हणजे #मॅट्रिक हे एक समीकरणच बनले अगदी आत्ता आत्ता पर्यंत
१३९ मधील फक्त २२ उत्तीर्ण होऊ शकले होते. यंदा शालांत उत्तीर्ण टक्केवारी ९९.५ आहे.
"I've recovered from COVID, I've already got antibodies" can't be excuse for not wearing a mask in public. There's absolutely no point in justification if it mocks the civic sense.
There was intense vilification of COVAXIN in January when it was given approval, has anybody retracted earlier/posted a follow up tweet with new data? Is there any good handle to follow who is tracking the vaccine story of India in fairly unbiased manner?
The comfort of an autoclaved cloth cap and surigcal mask with an autoclaved cottton surgical gown was a luxury taken for granted for years.
Confession after spending 3 and a half hours in N95 + face shield + disposable nonabsorbable plastic fibre gown.
@drabbyphilips
Agreed you're Anti-Ayurveda but what makes you anti-Sanskrit and call it a dead language?
Especially what you're signalling by doing 'Sanskrit is a dead language' tweet on the first day of National Sanskrit week? Don't think it is mere coincidence.
Someone even if learns many procedures in surgery posting but doesn't learn the correct technique of transurethral Foley's Catheter insertion into the bladder , he/she deserves a repeat posting.
"कुठंयस?"
"दवाखान्यात"
"दवाखान्यात काय करायलायस?"
"पेशंट तपासतोय"
"कोण बोलतंय"
"डॉ. पाठक"
"सॉरी हं राँग नंबर!"
माझा नंबर या गृहस्थांनी गेली अनेक वेळा त्यांचा मित्र म्हणून डायल केलेला आहे.
महिन्यातून दोन तीन वेळा असं होत त्यामुळे दोघं फारच जिगरी असावेत असे अनुमान!