Dr Kevin Kantaria

Forensic Medicine Resident @ BJMC Ahmedabad
I study suspicious deaths, child abuse & Indian medicolegal law

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

Forensic medicine is the most feared subject in MBBS.
It shouldn't be.
Allow me to introduce myself. 🧵

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

Answers are all A. Many of you got it all correct.

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

Four NEET-PG forensic questions.
Answers will be posted later on. Give your answers and let's see.

A child eats a wild fruit. Dry hot skin, dilated pupils, urinary retention, hallucinations. Poison and antidote?

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

"Educational meetup. No products." That's a rewrite, not a recollection.

The FSDA advisory and publicity material described: peptide tastings. Mocktails. Served to guests.

Regulators didn't misunderstand the event. They read the invite.

[Sowmay Jain @sowmay_jain]

a lot has been said about the peptide get-together, so let me say my part.

it was an educational meetup - no injectables, no products, no prescriptions. just curious people discussing the science behind a class of molecules the fda is actively reviewing - the same class that includes some of the most prescribed drugs in the world today. the kind of meetup that happens in SF every weekend.

our intent was always awareness, never harm. and honestly - the response from authorities has been the encouraging part.

this is not pre-2014 india. the officials we are seeing are engaged, serious, and acting in good faith to protect people. that's exactly what regulators should do, and i respect it. regulation done right isn't the enemy of science - it's what makes an industry legitimate and durable.

caution from doctors is fair too - it's literally their job. all we ask is that we pair that caution with curiosity. real debate on mechanisms, data, dosing, long-term unknowns. i'll show up for that conversation any day.

because here's what i actually believe: biotech is one of the biggest opportunities india has. we have the doctors, the chemists, the manufacturing base, the cost advantage. everything is here.

we are happy to work with the authorities, collaboratively and transparently, to help build the frameworks this industry needs. builders and regulators on the same side of the table.

⭐️ the next wave of this science shouldn't come out of SF. it should come out of india. this time, india must lead - and i want to help make that happen from here.

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

To everyone sitting NEET PG tomorrow:
Tonight your brain will tell you you've forgotten everything. That's not information. That's just what a loaded brain feels like from the inside.
Don't test yourself tonight. There's no version of tonight where you learn a subject. There's one where you wreck tomorrow.
Eat. Sleep. Reach early.
All the best to all those appearing!
#NEETPG #Motivation #MedX #MedTwitter

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

@drshe227 Congratulations ✨️🎊

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

Forensic Medicine is 8 questions in NEET PG. That's 32 marks from a subject most people revise the night before.
Five years of papers, same terrain:

Toxicology carries the paper. Organophosphates, aluminium phosphide, arsenic, lead, dhatura, snake venom. Poison–antidote pairing is the single most repeated question type.

Asphyxia. Hanging vs strangulation, ligature mark direction, Tardieu spots, diatom test.

Postmortem changes. Rigor timing, adipocere, mummification, estimating time since death.

Identification. Ossification centres, teeth eruption, Gustafson's method, fingerprint patterns.

Wounds and firearms. Entry vs exit, blackening, tattooing, range of fire.

Infanticide and sexual offences. Hydrostatic test, signs of live birth, examination findings.

The subject is small. Most people lose marks treating it as optional.
#NEETPG #forensicmedicine #lastminute #revision

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

@shrelock13 Rat race and peer pressure. Gives the energy 😬😅

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

6. Best sample for the diatom test in suspected drowning?
A. Lung tissue
B. Femoral bone marrow
C. Stomach contents
D. Blood from right heart

7. A man falls backwards onto his occiput. Autopsy shows frontal lobe contusions. This is?
A. Coup injury
B. Contrecoup injury
C. Fracture contusion
D. Herniation contusion

8. Florence test detects which substance?
A. Spermine
B. Choline
C. Acid phosphatase
D. PSA

9. Tache noire refers to?
A. Postmortem lividity
B. Drying of exposed sclera
C. Marbling
D. Cadaveric spasm

10. Adult with both entire lower limbs and the perineum burnt. Percentage TBSA?
A. 36%
B. 37%
C. 45%
D. 46%

Answers I'll be posting tomorrow. Comment your answers below. Let's see the score.
#neetpg #lastrush #forensicmedicine

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

Some more mcqs for neet pg aspirants. Score extra with these easy questions.

1. Farmer collapses in a field. Pinpoint pupils, excessive salivation, muscle fasciculations. Which drug reactivates the inhibited enzyme?
A. Atropine
B. Pralidoxime
C. Physostigmine
D. Neostigmine

2. Body recovered from a river with weeds tightly clutched in the hand. This indicates?
A. Rigor mortis
B. Cadaveric spasm
C. Cold stiffening
D. Heat stiffening

3. Blood collected for alcohol estimation. Correct preservative?
A. Rectified spirit
B. Saturated saline
C. Sodium fluoride
D. Formalin

4. Suspected kerosene poisoning. Viscera should be preserved in?
A. Rectified spirit
B. Saturated saline
C. Formalin
D. Glycerine

5. Methanol poisoning. Which metabolite causes the visual loss?
A. Formaldehyde
B. Formic acid
C. Acetaldehyde
D. Oxalic acid

#neetpg #medX #medtwitter

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

@drpraneetajain Exactly people are getting too casual about this stuff. And getting too easily influenced by influencers promoting these compounds.

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

#neetpg #forensicmedicine #neet

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

In court, counsel asks the witness a question suggesting its own answer. Leading questions are permitted in?

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

A gunshot wound has inverted margins with a rim of abraded skin around it. This is?

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

@TheFreeSoul12 @notttnaksh Who is denying that? Did anyone stop you from exercising your right to life under Article 21 or liberty ?This was just for awareness!!

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

"The FDA is busy approving peptides."
BPC-157, TB-500, Semax, Epithalon — none are FDA approved.
In April 2026 they came off Category 2, a restriction list, after their nominations were withdrawn. Not onto Category 1. PCAC reviewed them in July; that committee only advises.
Coming off a prohibition list is not approval. It's limbo.

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

@theliverdoc "Peptide tastings."
If it's oral, gut proteases degrade most of it before absorption. You're tasting expensive nothing.
If it's injectable, a prescription act has been turned into a party game for fifty people.
Neither version survives contact with the Drugs and Cosmetics Act.

[Dr Kevin Kantaria @Dr_Valgus]

@MaithiliMuses This menace is since long time. I travel frequently on this route and have experienced it first hand. The RPF should deploy some man power and catch these morons.