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Eighty Plus Patients – A dilemma with no easy decisions

A dilemma faced by many families is what to do when an eighty plus patient becomes serious. Should one admit them to a hospital, OR simply leave them alone to die quietly at home?

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WHEN DOCTORS GIVE UP, BUT PATIENTS DON’T

A man of science must surrender to strength of will and power of positive realisation if he is to be an effective doctor free of ego

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A tale of two patients

Finally the day arrived for both the patients to go home. One knew every aspect of his illness and the other just had blind faith in the attending doctors, being still almost ignorant about what a heart attack was.

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I would not do anything. I will just keep my father comfortable.

Sometimes, the hardest thing to do is to do nothing. This is true for the Queen of England, and neurosurgeons with the latest technology and research at their fingertips.

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Brain Tumour: Why me? A question with no easy answers

Here is my MRI and it shows a brain tumour, for Christ’s sake. Why me?
A visibly upset 60-year-old theatre artist. His real name was Eric Jamaspa, but he preferred to use his stage name.

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BECAUSE TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE

Traumatic brain injury surgery is staple for India’s neurosurgeons given our rash driving tradition and top spot in head injury stats. But it’s an ‘honour’ we’d rather do without.

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A call from ICU: Practicing medicine over mobiles

Because time equals life for neurosurgeons, calls from the hospital mean the world must stop, the mind must jump start.

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Epilepsy surgery that changed the life of a young girl

Yesterday, I saw her after 6 months of her surgery, she was so full of cheer and life all around, giggling all the time and narrating her school gathering function, where she participated in some Bollywood dance.

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When surgeons go to war

I don’t know who the patient is. I haven’t spoken to the family; it’s been done by the ICU team over an iPad to minimize contact. I’m just a technician here, placing a tube into a pipe.

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Trigeminal Neuralgia: Touching a raw nerve to relieve the pain

Living with trigeminal neuralgia means the most basic of tasks that stimulate sensation in the face, like brushing your teeth, trigger pain that’s the most excruciating man will know

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