Tarun Kumar

MBBS | UR | Doctor @MedicalMkcg | Odia |
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[Aditya Gupta @DrAditya2935]

Main shuru hounga na ch***** then you won’t be able to wag your tail. Stick to your domain of quackery.

India’s strength has not been basic drug discovery because funds actually have never been given for that. Most funds are actually just bare bone salaries and outdated infrastructure.

Research in basic sciences Has not been really been funded in India tbh. Even in west - drug discovery has been relegated to private pharmaceutical- not govt.

But clinical research is being done by the blood and sweat of doctors and has contributed to better outcomes. And despite bare minimum basic sciences funding - we have made decent progress.
Here you go.

1. Indigenous rotavirus vaccine - Dr Bhan’s greatest legacy.
God knows saves how many infants.
Do you even know what virus is!

2. ORS - did Ayurved come up with that?
It was Dr Mahalanabis.
Do you know how to manage dehydration, assess it when to give ORS, when to give IVF, which IVf - how much?

3. Centrochroman - Saheli - a non steroidal OCP. What do you give for contraception in Ayurved- abstinence or coitus interruptus? Do you even understand what contraception is? Your parents should have used it.

4. To use Liposomal Amphotericin B for Kalaazar (clinical trials in Bihar)

What’s Kalaazar? How do you treat it? What causes it?

5. JenVax - indigenous Japanese Encephalitis vaccine.
How to you manage encephalitis- do you ask those children to do alom vilom since im sure you’re against ventilator and oxygen.

6. Dexamethasone-Cyclophosphamide pulse therapy by Dr Pasricha for Pemphigus which reduced mortality drastically.

7. Use of olanzapine for Chemotherapy induced Nausea vomiting

8. Indigenous Low cost CART for B cell lymphoma by TMH-IIT Bombay.

This is a non exhaustive list from the top of my mind. I for want to indulge dishonest individuals like you more.

Please stick to fooling your patients who get better on placebo.

Your entire argument will just hinge on - doctor make money - doctor bad - without an iota of truth. Stick to your delusional world retard.

[Prasad 🇮🇳 @krab09]

If it's 'jitni aabadi utna hak' then also reserve for GCs. Let it be 20-30% whatever is the assessment of their population. And if any semblance of merit you still have, move unfilled positions to open merit in last rounds. No hope for merit left in your regime.

@narendramodi

[Aarnav Sharma✨️ @sunilaarnav]

Another Master Stroke by @narendramodi

[Meedas Sahoo @MeedasSahoo]

A BJP Minister openly flouting Odisha Govt guidelines in broad daylight.

And not just any minister.

The Health Minister of Odisha.

Just days ago, a fire tragedy at SCB Medical, Cuttack exposed glaring negligence & systemic failure.

And this is the response?

Zero accountability. Zero seriousness. Zero shame.

The same minister now casually violating the very guidelines his own govt is supposed to enforce.

This is not just hypocrisy.
This is contempt for public safety.

And spare us the performative religiosity.

Maryada Purushottam Ram stood for dharma, discipline & responsibility.

What we are seeing here is the exact opposite.

Empty symbolism. Loud posturing. No substance.

If you invoke Ram, at least respect the values he stood for.

Because this kind of reckless behaviour is exactly what he stood against.

People of Odisha must not stay silent.

Call this out.
Question it.
Hold them accountable.

Because if those in power treat rules like a joke, the system itself becomes one.

[The Koshur Doc @TheKoshurDoc]

An Additional District Magistrate (ADM) reportedly visited a clinic for inspection, asked the doctor’s name twice, and then raised his hand to slap him.

📍Araria, Bihar

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

Boss: “You arrived 10 minutes late.”
Employee: “Yesterday I stayed late finishing that last-minute report.”
Boss: “I understand… but rules are rules.”

The next day, the employee arrived exactly on time.
And at 6:00 p.m. sharp, shut down the computer.
No extra emails. No work taken home.

If punctuality is non-negotiable, then effort must have boundaries too.
Recognition cannot be one-sided.

When mistakes are highlighted but dedication is ignored, the real message becomes clear:
“Do only what’s required. Nothing more.”

Empathy costs nothing.
The absence of it? That can cost you everything—especially your best people

[Dr. Praveen Tripathi @drpraveenpsy]

I do not expect the general public to understand why the vast majority of doctors are choosing to side with the IGMC resident.

All of us have seen violence, and the constant threat of violence, so closely during our internship and residency that it becomes deeply personal for each one of us.
We will support and trust our resident doctors unless there is very strong evidence to the contrary.

I am also proud of our medical fraternity. When an issue impacts one of us, we almost always unite and keep our differences aside.
This is not arrogance or any so called superiority complex, as some are trying to label it.

It is simply that those who have worked on the frontline understand how difficult the conditions are, and we share a strong sense of brotherhood with our residents and interns.

I am sure RDA, IGMC and medical fraternity across the country will take steps to protect the dignity of the resident doctor.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

I have a tenant, a single dad with two little girls. He’s never late. In fact, he usually pays early. Last December, he came to my door with the rent, but he looked gutted. He handed it to me and said, “Here it is… and I’m sorry, but I won’t be able to renew the lease in January. I have to move to a cheaper place.”

I asked why. He admitted that after taking care of the bills and home expenses, he barely had anything left for Christmas gifts or even enough groceries to last the month. He told me he chose to give me what he owed instead of giving his daughters a Christmas.

I handed it back to him.
I said, “this month is on the house. Go buy those girls some presents and fill your fridge. We’ll talk about the lease in February.”

He broke down right there on my porch.

He’s still my tenant three years later, and I’ve never had a better one.

A roof is important, but memories are essential

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

> be me, 28m wagie living in Delhi
> wake up at 8 AM for my IT coolie job
> look out window, can’t see anything except a Grey haze
> neighbhourhood looks like the inside of a tandoor that hasn't been cleaned since 1947
> chest feeling heavy, congestion built up in lungs
> must be the weather changing
> check phone
> open IQAir app (Western propaganda tool)
> screen is deep purple
> AQI 650: "Hazardous. Do not breathe. Just die."
> panic.jpg
> am I being gaslit by the atmosphere?
> turn on nationalist TV news channel
> see senior Minister
> looks calm, composed, probably breathing filtered Himalayan air in the studio
> “Global rankings are not official. WHO guidelines are just suggestions.”
> “India sets its own standards based on geography.”
> realization hits me
> foreign AQI is a colonial construct
> Westoid lungs are weak, cannot handle the texture of Desi air
> they need ‘clean air’ because they lack civilizational immunity
> delete IQAir immediately
> install ‘Sarkari Vayu Sewa’ app
> refresh location
> AQI is 45: “Satisfactory”
> it’s not PM2.5, it’s ‘Atmanirbhar Particles’
> it’s not smog, it’s ‘Viksit Vapor’
> go to balcony
> take a deep breath of sovereign, non-aligned air
> taste the sulphur
> cough up a black glob
> stare at it
> it looks vaguely like a map of Akhand Bharat
> tears stream down my face (mostly from the nitrogen dioxide, but also patriotism)
> Global Index: Rejected
> Lungs: Congested
> Nation: Protected
> mfw I successfully rejected Western imperialism by reducing my life expectancy by 10 years

[BHUSHAN MADKE MD🇮🇳 @rashlessdoctor]

Absolutely

No ayurvedic doctor will ever take his wife to so called ayurvedic obstetrician

They will seek treatment and consultation from a OBGY specialist who is modern medicine expert

They will seek treatment for their kids from a modern medicine paediatrician

They will vaccinate their kids from a modern medicine paediatrician

They will go to a surgeon who is a modern medicine expert and get treated

But then on social media they will ridicule modern medicine

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Ayurveda practitioners are so full of themselves and so grossly incompetent that they do not realise how idiotic they are, and sound. This is solely because the government has given them legal status of "healthcare practitioner" and allowed them to use the title 'Dr.' They feel like they are real doctors and treat people who land up in their clinics solely because patients are ignorant and misinformed, not because Ayurveda and such alternative practices are any better.

In most countries outside India where Ayurveda is still considered pseudoscientific alternative medicine, these practitioners are only allowed to perform oil massages. That's it. That's what they really are in scientifically progressive societies. Glorified oil masseurs.

But here, because they go through a 4.5 year Bachelors program and end up with a consolation prize of 'Dr.' title, they feel they have achieved something when in fact they have lost everything in the process. Ultimately most end up making reels or putting up nonsensical "before and after photos" to fish for patients on social media.

The others like this guy here, keep bad-mouthing modern medicine and claim that science has no cure for specific 'chronic conditions' (its almost always diabetes or cancer in general), but fail to provide any curative therapies from their own utterly primitive practice.

Ayurveda practitioners vaccinate their kids, treat their family with antibiotics for infections, use preventive therapies from modern medicine to live long, but ultimately tries to disparage medical science to sell their bunkum and woo-woo stuff.

Sometimes I really feel bad for these guys. Pathetic little career built on deceit, practice on wilful fraud and ultimately 'made-up' satisfaction from ignorance. The least they can do is stand in a corner silently and be done with this life of fraud they chose instead of trumpeting their cognitive dissonance.

[Dr. Praveen Tripathi @drpraveenpsy]

Read this 900-odd page biography on Mahatma Gandhi. It was a fascinating read & covered the Independence movement as well.
Mahatma Gandhi was perhaps one of the greatest humans to have ever been born, but it’s also clear that certain parts of his thinking were deeply flawed. And that’s not a contradiction. Great humans too carry flaws; that is only to be expected.

Gandhi’s tussle with Ambedkar is so fascinating to read. The more I read Ambedkar, the more respect I develop for him. He was deeply committed to his cause.
Gandhi probably single-handedly prevented the split of Hindu society with his ‘Poona Pact’ with Ambedkar. An average Hindu today doesn’t even know this.
So many people hate Gandhi without realizing that his constant fight against untouchability, and finally his fast unto death, probably saved us from a major fracture.

Gandhi’s repeated attempts to get Jinnah to work alongside him, and his repeated failures in achieving that, show that even a man like Gandhi can’t have it all. Jinnah spent exactly zero days in jail in the fight for freedom. He was convinced that Hindus and Muslims are separate nations. He broke the nation into two parts.
And was it really a bad thing? Maybe not. Given that there has been so much bloodshed over the years, had there been no partition, maybe things would have been worse. People like Jinnah who want to divide are found in bigger numbers; people like Gandhi who want to unite are rare.
But then, when you look at the rise of the right wing in India, you can also see why people of Pakistan often thank Jinnah for what he did.

Finally, every society leans towards identity-based extremism. It takes geniuses like Gandhi and Nehru to stop that, and such great leaders are born rarely.

At the same time Gandhi’s lack of reality contact is so evident when he expressed that Hitler and Nazism can be stopped by satyagraha and non-violence.
Not being able to acknowledge that his ideas, however great they were, would not work in all situations and with all people, shows that he was obstinate.

His ideas on brahmacharya were completely unscientific. He believed that semen retention is the source of power. He believed nocturnal erections (which is a physiological phenomenon) were a sign of moral weakness.
His experiment of sleeping in the same bed with a young girl to test his moral resolve appears like using a human as a guinea pig. He believed that women don’t have sexual desires and only have to tolerate the lust of men. All of this shows a deeply problematic belief system and his struggles with coming to peace with human sexuality.

Gandhi's approach towards his wife and sons was classical strict patriarchy. His bitter relationship with his eldest son shows that the person who could unite millions still struggled to unite his own family.

We know all these details about Gandhi because he shared them openly with the world.
Why would a man share his controversial experiments, his thoughts on sexuality, his personal and intimate stories?
Maybe it was his quest to reach that utopian state of complete transparency. Or maybe he wanted to set an example for his millions of followers.

Why did Gandhi choose Nehru and not Patel as his heir? How can anyone question this? Why does anyone choose one person over another? It’s always that person’s prerogative.

The Hindu-Muslim riots just before independence led to Gandhi’s great fast. He could make people stop violence by punishing himself. He would appeal to the conscience of people, and conscience can be a powerful force. But when society is so deeply divided on the lines of religion, to the extent that the country itself is about to be divided, can calls to conscience really succeed?

Of course not always. Gandhi could still stop violence in Bengal, but not in Punjab. The bloodshed continued. That Gandhi’s appeals didn’t work in Punjab is not surprising. That they did work in Bengal is surprising.
As Mountbatten famously said: “In the Punjab we have 55,000 soldiers and large-scale rioting on our hands. In Bengal our forces consist of one man, and there is no rioting. As a serving officer, as well as an administrator, may I be allowed to pay my tribute to the One-Man Boundary Force.”

Now look at the critique of RSS and Hindu Mahasabha leaders: that Gandhi was subduing Hindus by asking them to be non-violent, which would make the country weak and vulnerable to attacks and maybe even repeat colonisation. That’s a fair point.
If the world was a violent place just coming out of the Second World War, and the country was being divided on religious lines with those going to Pakistan believing they were descendants of great Muslim rulers and warriors, how would non-violence save the country? That’s the problem with Gandhi’s ideas: if one party to the conflict becomes violent, the whole concept immediately fails.

But the fact that he was able to bring millions of Indians together for a common cause shows that his ideas, even if they may not work in every situation, were a potent tool to unite Indians against a much stronger enemy, the British.

Gandhi was killed by Godse. It was a heartbreaking end, yet it also seemed to complete the narrative of his life.
A religious man, who preached non-violence all his life, shot dead by a man from his own religion, this made his life story immortal.

In the end, was Gandhi right or wrong? That’s the wrong question. Humans can’t be all right or all wrong. If Gandhi didn’t do everything right, that doesn’t make him wrong.

What’s clear is this: he was extraordinary. A man who made a major impact.

Let me end with a small anecdote that exemplifies his continuing influence across the world.
I was reading this book on the flight back from Spain to India, and a white stewardess was serving food. When she reached my seat, she noticed the title of the book and said: “Oh, that’s a book on Gandhi. Maybe if all of us followed him, the world would be so much more peaceful.”

Happy Gandhi Jayanti

[The12thRed @_The12thRed]

🤣🤣 I can’t anymore… who did this?! 😂

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

India lacks a functioning concept of conflict of interest in governance.

The father is pushing ethanol blending as aggressive national policy, while the son’s company reaps extraordinary profits after entering the ethanol sector.

In any mature democracy, the father would have stepped down the moment his son joined a business tied to his ministry, to simply avoid the appearance of impropriety.

Even if both are entirely honest, the optics are damning. Yet there is no uproar: the opposition stays silent since their own leaders’ companies benefit from the ethanol boom, and ordinary citizens who raise questions can simply be dismissed as oil-lobby trolls. A sad state of affairs!

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

When Dr. Ratan Chandra Kar arrived on an Andaman shore in 1998, he wasn’t just entering a forest—he was stepping into 150 years of silence, mistrust, and pain.

The Jarawas had resisted every outsider for generations.

But instead of fear, Dr. Kar met them with food, respect, and quiet persistence.

He didn’t just save lives. He proved that true change begins not with authority, but with humility.

How do you rebuild trust where none existed?

On Doctors' Day, scroll down to see how one man did it—with no weapons, just empathy.

#DoctorsDay #RealHeroes #PublicHealth #Jarawa #PadmaShri #TribalStories #IndiaPositive #Andaman #HealthcareWithHeart

[Vijay @veejuparmar]

Maturity is when you realise bro is telling facts and dark reality of our country 💔

[Dr. Datta M.D. (Radiology) building CRASHLab.in @DrDatta_AIIMS]

🚨 Live from Goa

After a truly pathetic and failed PR stunt by the minister’s team, spreading misinformation through pet media channels, doctors across Goa have united and conveyed that they have had enough.

Residents from across the state have gathered right now in protest against the long-standing authoritarian behavior of the Goa Health Minister, who treats GMC like his personal fiefdom. This isn’t “inside news”; it’s an open secret. You can also go and search on the internet!

The message from Goa’s medical community is crystal clear:

The apology needs to be as loud as the insult. Doctors are demanding that the minister step into the casualty ward and apologise in person to the doctor he humiliated. They will not accept anything less.

Goa’s doctors are standing united today against political hooliganism and VIP culture which affects our ability to serve patients equitably. Let’s rally behind them and make sure our hospitals remain spaces of care and not political circus grounds.

Support Goa’s doctors!
Say no to VIP bullying!
Say yes to dignity in healthcare!

[Prudent Media @prudentgoa]

I was humiliated; minister should come and apologize to me publicly in the Casualty ward where the incident occurred; if a public apology is not issued within 24 hours, we will discuss the matter with everyone and we may consider shutting down services: CMO Dr. Rudresh Kuttikar

[Herald Goa @oheraldogoa]

CMO Dr. Rudresh Kuttikar says he was humiliated by the minister and insists on a public apology in the GMC Casualty ward within 24 hours, warning that doctors may consider shutting down services if their demand is not met.

#goa #GMC #gmcgoa