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Veni vidi peditum

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

People really forget how devastating the 2008 crash was.

[Polimer News @polimernews]

KMCH மருத்துவமனையில் உறுப்பு கொடையாளர்களைப் பெருமைப்படுத்தும் விதமாக நடந்த கல்வெட்டு திறப்பு விழாவில், திரையில் ஒளிபரப்பப்பட்ட காணொலியை கண்டு தேம்பி தேம்பி கதறி அழுத உறவினர்கள்.. மனதை நொறுக்கிய காட்சி..!

#Coimbatore | #Hospital | #PolimerNews

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

How did World War 1 start

[Tamil Nadu Geography @TNGeography]

One of the worst June and July at Hogenakkal waterfalls. Wayanad is coming for the rescue. Kabini water will reach Hogenakkal in next 24+hrs, the dry river bed will slowing the water movement. Wayanad always give the first flood to TN (Mekedatu dam will stop that). 1/2

[tira‎‎⁀➴ @tiraspeaks]

CJP V!olent protesters who destroyed public property are now begging the public for mercy - a thread 🧵:

[SHYAMKUMAR BTECH BL @SHYAMKUMARBL]

#கரூர் மாவட்ட திமுகவில் செந்தில்பாலாஜியின் தீவிர ஆதரவாளர் வக்கீல் கோபால் மற்றும் செந்தில்பாலாஜியின் ஓட்டுநர் முருகன்

ஆகியோர் திமுக IT Wing நிர்வாகி தீபக் சூரியன் மீது கொலைவெறி தாக்குதல் நடத்தி உள்ளனர்.

[Chhirag Kedia @swing_ka_sultan]

Let me tell you what sucks.

My father bought a property in 1985 from a family belonging to another community. He built a bank building there and gave it to SBI on rent. The bank operated there till 2014, after which we asked them to vacate because the rent was too low.

We got busy with some other urgent property-related work and didn't pay much attention to this property for some time.

Later, when we wanted to sell it and transfer it to our mother's name, we found that someone had simply cut my father's name from the land records with a red pen.

A red pen means the jamabandi is dismissed, and the property has been sold.

But sold to whom?

There was no name. No date. No information about who cut it. No information about whose name the new record was created in.

Nothing.

Now you go to the Circle Officer and ask him to reinstate it. He rejects it.

You appeal to the DCLR. By the time your appeal comes up, the earlier officer is transferred. He is gone. No consequences for whatever he did.

The DCLR asks us for a bribe. We refuse. He rejects it again.

We move to the ADM.

For two years, we don't even get a hearing date.

Now what do you do?

You go to court.

But against whom?

Do you have evidence that the same people who sold the property were behind all this?

Do you know the name of the karamchari who took a red pen and cut your name from the records?

Can you get any action taken against the CO who rejected your case?

Or against the DCLR who asked for a bribe?

At best, after fighting for years, maybe decades, you will get your own property back in your name.

Your own property. Something that was already yours.

But what about all those years when you needed that property? When you could have sold it, used the money, or done something productive with it?

And what happens to those who did all this?

Nothing.

You know what happens instead?

The same people who created the problem will test how desperate and tired you are.

If your property is worth ₹1 crore, he will offer you ₹50 lakh.

You have already spent years running from one office to another. Most people eventually get exhausted. They take whatever they can get and move on with their lives.

And this is how the person who did the wrong thing gets rewarded.

This is how the system continues.

I have many more such stories from my own family and relatives, involving properties worth amounts where even a small part of it can raise eyebrows.

So when I say it suck, this is what I mean.

And this is why I don't believe fixing one paper leak, removing one officer, taking one resignation or changing one government will fix much.

You are fixing the leaves. The root remains exactly where it was.

Fix the system where people can do such things and live their entire lives without facing any consequences.

Until you fix that, you will solve one problem today and wake up to another one tomorrow.

[Zucker Doctor @DoctorLFC]

"Scrap NEET"

More than 20 years ago, when I gave my medical entrances exams, private colleges in Maharashtra were allowed to conduct their own exams.

Forget leaking papers, some of these colleges actually directly sold ranks.

Sure, let's go back to those glorious times.

[tea stoner (she/her) 📚 60/50 @bookbeduion]

This is so insane

[𝕲𝖚𝖗𝖚 𝕭𝖗𝖚𝖓𝖔 🇮🇳 @spinesurgeon]

It does exist in Tamil Nadu

Compare the maternal and infant mortality rates 100 years ago and today

Or

Just see the number of people cured of cancer and heart attack

Or

Think why no one less than 30 years is lame due to polio (of course i know terms differently abled and physically handicapped) or blind due to measles or deaf due to Rubella or dead due to Tetanus

Corporate hospitals will he run like corporate entities
Govt hospitals will he run like GH

What can the common man do

1
First decide whether he is rich or poor
If rich, go to Corporate and dont cry for the bill
If poor, come to GH and don't expect Egos to be massaged

2
Get rid of greedy and unrealistic expectations
You cannot get features of Benz / land cruiser in a Nano / Alto
You cannot get idli for 5 rupees in Taj
If you can't spend for Taj
Come to Amma Canteen

As simple as that

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

Some doctors ask in desperation, “can we carry pepper spray or even a gun?”. This won’t work for several reasons

1. The lowlifes who attack doctors have little to lose. Some of them are subhuman trash with criminal cases. Even engaging in verbal spat with them is like wrestling with a pig.

2. They come to hospital once. We have to go the next day and the day after. The main reason we are alive is that no one wants to kills us. Once you become a marked man, it’s only a matter of time. Unless you are a billionaire, you can’t get 24x7 security.

3. Indian dehatis fear only 3 people

- Politician
- Porukki ( goon)
- Police

In that order. Just having a weapon won’t elevate you to the level of any of these groups.

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

Shiv Sena corporator Mhatre got arrested,not just because of SM outrage but bcoz:

1. CCTV evidence of assault
2. He attacked a lady doctor and nurse
3. The lady doctor herself was Dalit, so the caste card he tried to play became useless

The guy who got beaten ? No one cares.

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

It’s not because doctors are tardy or staff are clueless. It’s because the payment model doesn’t account for the inherent uncertainty in the length of consultation.

Doctors visits aren’t charged by the minute.

Suppose there’s a 2 hour OPD. And each patient books a 10 minutes slot for a ₹. X. There are 12 slots.

For ease of discussion, let’s assume all slots are prepaid. If patient 4,5 and 6 takes up more than 15 minutes, due to the complexity of their problem then one of the following can happen

1. Charge 50% more from patient 4,5 and 6. Distribute that among patients 7 to 12 as compensation.

2. Charge proportionately less amount from patient 7 to 12 ( they get 7.5 minutes each and get 25% less time and get 25% refund)

3. Change from prepaid to postpaid and calculate based on in-time vs out-time. Instead of appointment slot, you get appointment band (6 PM to 8PM). And no one knows how much you will be charged until you are out.

4. Do nothing. Charge the same for everyone. Let some people get more time , while others get late. Status quo prevails.

If you choose 1 to 3, you are myopic.

Your decision is based on how sick you are now, as opposed to how complex a case you can be in the future. You don’t want a doctor to look at the watch while assessing you.

The delay that you experience is the time the doctor spends to solve someone else s problem. Someday you will be that person whose problem is complex and needs more time. Half way through your Harrisons textbook sized case file, you don’t want your doctor to say “Times up, next !”.

The delay is least in India, especially Tamilnadu. We have the most efficient healthcare system in the world.

It’s precisely because of this, patients don’t appreciate what they have.

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

I was the second year MD in the casualty that day. This may sound like hubris, but my junior and I were the tip of the medicine spear, the soldiers who held the fort - only occasionally taking help from the senior resident. The medical officer had the habit of passing any case that walks into the casualty through the medicine unit.

So he referred a case of suspected status epilepticus - medicalese for continuous seizures. We rushed to the patient and found a 16 year old girl, throwing fits. She had just finished 10th standard. The mother and the father were with her, and they seemed distraught. While we stabilised her and obtained a slot from the radiology department for emergency CT brain, the father had been frantically calling his relatives. He cried, "Please save my child".

I asked them if the girl had epilepsy. They said this is the first time she had fits. No headache, no head injury, no fever, no vomiting. Nothing. It was a bolt out of the blue. As we examined her, we found that she was plump. Her blood pressure was high. On a hunch, we put the steth to her abdomen. What we heard was the fetal heart sounds - soft, but sure.

Our hearts sank, while our brains burst with the excitement of diagnosis. It wasn't any seizure. It was eclampsia. Making a diagnosis is one thing, communicating it to parents that their 16 year old unmarried daughter is in the 3rd trimester of pregnancy and has developed a complication is quite another. To make matters worse, the relatives had all arrived.

I thought it is best handled by a senior and called for my SR. He took the parents alone and told them the diagnosis, after confirmation. The father fainted when the SR finished. "We are trying to save not only your child, but also your grandchild". The pandemonium was inevitable.

The girl was sleeping, oblivious to the emotional turmoil everyone around her was going through.

We transferred the patient to Obstetrics & Gynecology. The parents wanted termination of pregnacy, O&G refused - it was too late. As were finishing the paper work, I saw one twenty-something  male among them, looking ashen. As though he had seen a ghost. He looked at us - and I still don't know what to make of that look.

My junior looked at me, with a raised eyebrow. I looked at him, signalling him to maintain a poker face. Our job was done. No need to dig deeper than necessary. In stoic silence, we moved onto the next patient.

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

Unlike OPD, hospital emergency departments don't function on a first come first serve basis. Instead patients are seen based on severity of the problem and urgency. This process is called triage and it's done to maximize the chances of saving lives with the available resources.

If you came with a fracture of a toe and some scratches and another patient with a heart attack, he will be seen first.

Expecting a resident in a busy government hospital A&E to explain to you why that other patient is seen first even though he came second is unrealistic. Infact every minute a doctor explains the sorting process to you is a minute lost in saving another life.

The only sensible option is to wait for your turn.

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

PGI is a tertiary care hospital that’s overflowing with patients. Every patient comes there for “timely treatment”.

When someone says “I only asked for timely treatment for my patient” what they mean is “I want to jump the queue”.

Doctors WILL NOT agree to that, no matter how you ask. You are NOT entitled to special treatment because you are a journalist.

If you attempt to throw your weight around, you will only get snubbed. Residents there don’t expect help, but don’t be hindrance.

Obstructing a Goverment servant from discharging his public duty is an offence under BNS 221, punishable upto 3 months of imprisonment.

It’s high time doctors asked for the same in medicine too, to put an end to this menace of entitlement.

[MAHARATHI @MahaRathii]

Condition of Hindus in Kerala 🚨🚨

A Hindu man from Tamil Nadu running a plastic shop called “New Chennai Shopping” was forcibly shut down by Jihadis in Kerala.

Reason? He was using plastic bags.

According to these men, he has no right to do business in Kerala because he is Tamil. They were heard shouting — “You came from Tamil Nadu and are doing business here — who gave you permission? We have our own businesses, shut your shop and leave.”

Let’s be very clear — If he broke the law — there is a government. There are authorities. There are courts. There is a legal system to question him,investigate him and punish him if needed.

Who are these Jihadis to take law into their own hands? Who gave THEM the authority to shut down a man’s shop?
Who appointed them as the judges of who can do business in Kerala?

Being Tamil doesn’t strip an Indian citizen of his right to do business anywhere in India.

This is not about plastic bags.
This is not about licenses.

This is about one thing — a Hindu daring to run a business in a Muslim-dominated area of Nadapuram, Calicut.

They don’t want Hindu businesses to survive there. That’s it. That’s the whole story. 🚨

Wake up Hindus — before it’s too late.
This is your condition under Congress-ruled Kerala. 🚨

[KJS DHILLON🇮🇳 @TinyDhillon]

You want the young officer to sacrifice his life for the love of the Nation, but you don’t want him to express his love for his fiancée.

In the Army we say ‘Youngster nahi karega, toh kaun karega’.

If you can not find a fault in his professional capabilities, don’t do this nuktachini for such a pure gesture of love and belonging.

Military equipment has been on display during many ‘Know your Army’ exhibitions around the country. The students and non military personnel have clicked pics with it showing pride and love for the Army. So, please don’t bring in the national security angle into this.

Let the young soldier do his national duty with pride and honour 👍

Jai Hind 🇮🇳

[Dr Jason Philip. M.S., MCh @Jasonphilip8]

In 1997, my engineer brother developed a small lump above his collar bone. I was a young Dr then, & my father took him to his cousin, Dr. Jeyasingh Cooksley, former HOD, Stanley & personal surgeon to Dr. Kalaignar Ayya. Dr. Cooksley diagnosed him with TB Lymphadenitis & started him on ATT. I asked him whether biopsy/FNAC was necessary, but he regally waved me off.

Lumps started appearing in his neck. We took him again to the great surgeon, who diagnosed Drug-resistant TB,& put him on 2nd line ATT. Meanwhile my mother with her loving maternal instincts invited 'Alternative Med' practitioners, a euphemism for quacks to treat him.

First to appear was a 75 yr old homeopath, a retired Surgery HOD, Thanjavur Med College, who had renounced medicine & was practicing 'Homeopathy'. He stopped TB medicines, & started him on 'H' drugs. Precious time ws being lost, while the disease ws progressing at break neck speed.

Despite my vehement protests, my mother invited Ayurveds next. They started Rx with their concoctions, & the bill was heavy. No sign of improvement. She then brought in Siddha, Unani 'Drs' to treat my brother as a guinea pig. The Rx cost was enormous,precious time was being lost, & the 'disease' was travelling with a vengeance.

Tho my mother was an imposing figure in my house, & took all important household decisions, I decided to put my foot down. Enough of this nonsense.I took my brother to Apollo Cancer Hospital, to an efficient team headed by Dr. Hemanthraj & Dr. Subramaniam. In the meanwhile, when Quacks were extorting us for insane sums of money, my brother had developed apple-sized lumps in both groins, both armpits, both sides of the neck,& a giant spleen.

The great Drs at Apollo immediately proceeded with biopsy,& confirmed Stage 4 ,High grade Non- Hodkins Lymphoma, which in that era was incurable. They put him on state of the art Chemo & radiotherapy.

They told my brother & us that, had we come to them before precious time was lost to quacks( pseudoscience practitioners ), they cd have saved his life. From the detailed history that I gave them, they surmised that at the time of noticing the lump, it was Stage 1 cancer & eminently curable. As my mother went shopping from Homeopathy to Ayurveda to Siddha , the disease had travelled to Stage 4 Cancer which was incurable (in that era).

I have had a long career as a Dr,& seen many painful deaths. Without any exaggeration at all, I can say that my brother suffered the most painful death, I hv ever known. From fractures spine & loss of use of lower limbs coz of spread of cancer to spine, to pneumonia, while pseudoscience practitioners were extorting exorbitant sums of money from us, & experimenting with life & death.

It was only his immense faith in God, that sustained him till the end. He predicted the exact date & time of his death, after the Apollo Drs gave up on him, & asked us to take him home from the ICU so that he cd spend his last days & hrs at home, amidst loved ones... On 11.7.2000, he passed away. But, only after his unusual outburst I had related in my previous tweet.. THE RAGE OF ANGELS..
And that is why, I am a crusader against Pseudoscience.

[Mr BundelKhandi @BundelKhandee]

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