TheLiverDoc™

Doctor. Scientist. Author.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

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Dear Friends,
I never wanted to become a doctor. I always wanted to write and tell stories. And yet, over the years, medicine gave me the most extraordinary stories I could never have imagined - stories that lived in hospital corridors, outpatient rooms and inside terrifying ICUs; in the trembling hands of a father carrying his jaundiced daughter, in the silence between a prognosis spoken and a family's world shattered.

Today, I am proud and deeply moved to announce my first book, The Liver Doctor: Stories of Love, Loss and Regeneration, published by @HarperCollinsIN .

This book is where my two worlds finally collide.
My childhood love for writing and telling stories. And my adultdhood, as a medical doctor.

Through the lives of real patients and their families - their courage, their grief, their impossible choices - I tell the story of the most misunderstood, most indispensable, and only self-regenerating organ in the human body: the liver.

But this is not just a medical book. It is a journey through ancient myth and modern science, through Prometheus and Wilson's disease, through Mesopotamian clay tablets and liver transplant waiting lists, through the history of healing itself.

I wrote it for doctors, so they may remember why they chose this life. I wrote it for patients and families, so they may know when to fight and when to find peace. I wrote it for myself, to make peace with what I have lost and what I will lose.

This book shoulders that one truth I have learned in all my years at the clinical bedside: I did not become a doctor to help people cheat death, but to help them understand it.

This book is my offering - to medicine, to storytelling, and to you. Lose yourself in these pages, as I have.

Pre-orders are open now
The Liver Doctor : Stories of Love, Loss and Regeneration - https://t.co/MoTf7ZCiPG

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

@HeadyHead2 Yupp

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This is a video posted by an Ayurvedic surgeon on Instagram, where he shows his skill and government approved Ayurvedic surgery for lipoma (noncancerous, fatty lump) mostly removed for cosmetic purpose.
https://t.co/iIb39DjhLS

No anesthesia. No preventive antibiotics for infection control. He uses tools from his grandma's kitchen and rods from his grandpa's garage to cut and remove fat. The patient is burned raw and in pain.

Indian government has allowed pseudoscience practitioners and quacks in coats to legit torture patients in the name of ancient (original) "safer" treatments. If this was in a scientifically progressive country, this man would be in jail, whatever quack registration he has, burned, and ashes flown in the wind.

But this is India. It is a land of mediocrity. A nation of people happy with below average quality of life. A country where third-rate level atrocity is considered treatment.

It is a shame that third-rate practitioners are allowed to post such videos and sell themselves as "doctors/surgeons" on social media without repercussions while real doctors are getting beaten up on duty, catering to underserved populations.
https://t.co/iIb39DjhLS

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@vishnuphys_ Natural Medicine.

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@PrakashRaghav Damn!

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@Manishray_1812 Wo shock mein gaya ha. Ice daal diya. Coke jaise feel hua hoga.

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@Shiva_Simha1 Natural and organic infection will be provided free of charge.

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@achaldugar It is ACTUALLY bullshittery vs logic. What you are witnessing here is, the former.

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@collegecall This is not even the real treatment as per Ayurveda. Just because these fools have been given a free ride, they are doing whatever they feel like.

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This is what is actually written in Susruta Samhita:
Ayurveda views lipomas as Medoja Granthi - a disorder caused by the aggravation of the Kapha dosha and faulty fat metabolism.
Non surgical treatment has been used as mentioned in Sushruta Samhita. As a paste made from sesame to be placed over the lipoma, cover it with 2 layers of cotton cloth then rubbing should be done with hot iron rod.

Only a hard Medoja Granthi should be treated with Agnikarma (what this guy is doing here). 'Hard' lipomas require proper evaluation to rule out other issues - like cancer transformation. The excised part should be sent for biopsy. Here, looks like the fool discarded it in his waste bin.

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@PandeyjiBuilds Ignorance runs deep in public; and these low-class practitioners are mostly the first line of care in many rural places because they setup shop there to lure victims into their clinic to avoid "big city hospital doctors."

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@harrysutrave Cant even see a sterile drape around the resection region. All the skin and hair microbes free to enter the wound and do their thing. Clear proof that Ayurveda graduates are not really doctors.

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This video is an example of outdated Ayurvedic alchemy which in current practice is associated with heavy metal poisoning.

Claims of Ayurveda-prescribed and described purification (Shodana) techniques do not, in reality, purify mercury to become safe, and is a delusional argument that Ayurveda practitioners live by.

Shodana includes heating toxic metal with herbs and fats like ghee and boiling them in animal urine etc. This does not, in any way make mercury "less" toxic.

Ayurveda is the single most common "healthcare" practice in the world that has heavy metal poisoned thousands globally.
✅https://t.co/bErLgqNyEy

Mercury is extremely toxic. It is not medicine even if your belief of it has survived 2000 years.
✅https://t.co/ak9vpJx18l

[𝐊𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐧𝐚𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐢 @Krishnavallabhi]

Parad — The Heart of Rasashastra. ✨️

An ancient Ayurvedic treasure revered for its profound significance, powerful transformations, and timeless wisdom.

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@sky_phd This is a traditional lunch known as chatti chor which has steaming hot rice mixed with rich gravies surrounded by assortment of dry vegetable sides, and variety of animal proteins. You can't see everything in the 2D image.

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Come for the view.
Stay for the lunch.
#cometokochi

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@OMRcat Spicy though!

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@kenylalan Superb! Enjoy your Paneer Pad Thai.

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@ranjit_x @pktheosho This is herbal liquor. Garbage.

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@OMRcat

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@kenylalan Sure. Lots of vegetarian options also in these places. Thai, Indonesian and Vietnam cuisines are veggie paradise.

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@PrakashRaghav No filter. All natural.

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@kenylalan Whatever.