ECG "Toaaaaaa de Pooaaaaa"

Well the Indian Society if Electrocardiography held a workshop in Guwahati where reputed Indian Dons of ECG had come to teach and conduct an exam there after on this subject. I was lucky enough to be part of a team selected from Dibrugarh to attend this workshop. It meant free travel, free food & accommodation in a 'some' star hotel and an excellent workshop on ECG. Never thought that ECG could reveal so much.
We also had a great fun, Debrajda was made the scapegoat management supervisor of the gang and named CAPTAIN. He was at the receiving end of all the jokes but digested it with "Honour and Glory" of a Scottish Blond. A new terminology for impending danger was discovered. Torsade de Pointes ( a condition of extreme emergency characterized by QT prolongation and named after a French ornament that resembles the ECG finding of this condition ) pronounced as 'Toosaad de Pooaaaaaaa'. For us it became Toaaaa de Pooaaaaaa. Our ECG exam was a total toaaaa de pooaaaa and our return journey was delayed as we lost track of time while shopping. So the journey after dinner to catch the Bus was also a toaaaa de pooaaaa. I with one of my friends saw the movie "Angels & Demons". It was great...... the Vatican had the toaaaaa de pooaaaaaa of its lifetime, at least in the movie. I also met one of my senior, who ( a Registrar in my college, transfered to Guwahati few months ago ) had married recently. He gave me a word of advice after congratulating me when he came to know that i have finally found a girlfriend. He said " marriage is a total loss of money and time..... but u need to get it over with". Seems like he had some serious toaaaaa de pooaaaaa during his marriage.
All the fun ended with the weekend and am back to my room now(Monday morning). Have to go to ward again...... this is when it starts again for me and my friends in Medicine Department. What else ? Toaaaaa de Pooaaaaaa.........

P.S. today evening when I went to the ICCU to call the ECG technician to do an ECG of a patient in our ward I serendipitously saw the first Torsade de Pointes patient of my life. A young female of 30 yrs was being given DC cardioversion repeatedly for Toaaaa de Pooaaaaaa which she developed after getting Magnesium sulphate. I guess I will never fail to diagnose a Toaaaa de Pooaaaaa now........

Bull-shit

Bullshit does not always taste like shit. It is often sugar coated. On the positive side, though sugar can cause diabetes and heart disease the bullshit is zero calorie. But that does not change the fact that bullshit is bullshit. To name a few Salman Khan movies, Saas Bahu serials, 20 news channels who run after a fantastic story which means nothing to me and you. On a serious note the Health Melas, the Government supply medicines, the idealism that is preached by any one with gray hairs, the Astha channel and the Q tv. The bombs going boom now and then just because a fool thought that it was his visa for heaven is the pure definition of bullshit. Reservation on the basis of cast and tribe instead of the economic condition, poverty and struggle is ox-shit. Himesh Reshamiya is horse shit. I am not a pessimist , I love Kate Winslet, Reality TV, American dream and Indian History, McDowell's no 1 and Dev D. I also love a lot of things that will be inappropriate to blog. But that doesnot change the fact that a bullshit is a bullshit.

BAAP bara ya RUPIYYA ?

Well that depends on kiska baap and kitna rupaiyya.... Seriously guys, when this enigmatic country of ours have given a mandate for economic stability even when the national terrorist attacks track record is at its best, its apparent that rupaiyya is definitely what the young India wants. The communists running after the multinational companies for investments, increasing number of karorpaties in Loksabha, Mutual funds at its all time highest and GDP being the new mantra of the Aam admi......One of my friend was getting postgraduate degree in a college in his hometown and the same in another college with thrice the pay. No prize for guessing his choice. Another cousin of mine was out chilling with his friends flaunting a T-shirt that said " MY DAD IS AN ATM ". So what about the Baaps. The genetic ones are threatened by the new ones who are loaded with the moolahhh.... They are the new Baaps.... Kingfisher baap, Reliance baap, Tata baap, Infosys baap etc. Most of my friends are out of their parental house and business with their new baaps from the Fortune's top 500 baaps of the world. Why am I pissed off ? One patient in our ward has been left to die by his sons who admitted him in hospital and ran away after that. Such things are not uncommon. Few days ago an article was published in India Today about cured patients in mental hospital left for years after discharge as the family members refused to take them back. Bagwan , Boothnath are a few movies on this concept by the baap of all times, the BIG B. The real reason ...? OK, I agree.... I along with the PG's of our college are amongst the lowest paid in this country that is catching up fast in the department of the RUPIYYA. So, all the netalogs, bhaiyos & behnos of my land 'show me the money' or else I have nothing to feel good about the "Jai Ho" which seems to be the song for Jamal only when he became a millionaire from a slumdog.

HUNGER

What do you think

I should do ?

Chase the dream

or chase the dreams ....

No, they are not the same.

Have you ever felt the pain

of longing for something

so bad that you don't care

how much it hurts

to get it.

its not love....

that's easy,

its not money

that's easier......

its not power

though that's not easy......

its the hunger

for more....

and more....

It doesn't end,

it consumes.......

but is rewarding.

I want

and there is nothing wrong in it

I will work for that....

Its a fare deal.

Am i a demon ?

of my own hunger.

well its an aim....

to fight for.

a goal to run for.........

I am HUNGRY.....

I am HUMAN....

Health Mela

The idea of "Mela" that i recall from my childhood memories is a place crowded by colourful people buying, selling, eating, laughing, shouting and running around. Some of them were in the bank of Brahmaputra to celebrate any festive occasions and some in a huge field called Chowkidingi feild.I remembered my fathers enthusiasm in every small mater and occasion. He was the one to drag us to such places and then repented taking us there as me and my sister insisted or rather cried over each and every thing we saw and eventually wanted. I loved the pink fluffy sugar candy's that would melt the moment taken inside the mouth. Well slowly as days passed i recall lesser and lesser number of Melas and i think they were genuinely being extinct.

Recently a new thing has come up. Health mela. Its a community health camp set by our government where doctors from various branches as well as various organisations are taken to a remote village where it has been already propagated that Doctors are coming for community service. I have been to several ( more than 10 ) of them in recent times.The concept is that all speciality doctors are brought to the door steps of the village people and free medicines are given.The medicines are mostly government made and frankly worthless. Most of them are placebos. Well, two types of patients come there.... one who were passing by and stopped for some free medicines and another group who wanted a magic medicine to be strong. The later group will come with the complaint of generalised weakness and pain all over the body. When few of the patient come with such problems i would like to think for a cause but when half of the patients come with the same problem its mass hysteria. Hardly any genuine patients come. Its always mass de-wormiong of the children and iron folic acid for the females of menstrual age group. Fungal infections in the skin are treated with ointments.

So much for health mela........ free food for the doctors and organisers, speech and those filmy promises of "neta logs" , and aspiring "party workers" to voo for votes. Petrol for the cars to bring the health force...... Big drama to give sugar coated bullshit to buy the trust or VOTE BANK of innocent and illiterate common rural man.

These health melas are government propaganda to show that they care, at the cost of cheap or at times wrong health care. Unjust use of antibiotics are and going to prove detrimental to the society in the near future. Mass concept about vitamins and iron tablets are going to make its abuse more and more in near future. People will prefer to visit a doctor who gives unjust and many medications and not those who will give precise and few medications...

As a part of my duty i have to go and pretend to be a part of this huge propaganda. I fear its consequences..... I am just a voice in the ocean of a big social misuse of our tax money to no benefit at all. All i can do is blog, its kind of a confession to a father in a church.