Dr. Sandip Sur

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[Noah @NoahKingJr]

on twitter, you will always find someone who is tweeting your thoughts but with better grammar

[Sayantika @SayantikaSays]

This is Nabin Pally Hatibagan, Kolkata. All the houses were painted in this manner to pay tribute to Sukumar Ray's writing "Abol Tabol".

No other city can match the aura of Kolkata. It is on another level.

[Anirban @runner_anir]

Lovely!

[Philosophy Sage @philosophysage]

I STUDIED 50 PEOPLE WHO SEEM "LUCKY" IN LIFE.

None of them journal. Or wake at 5am. Or have a "system."

But They All Do These 12 Things Religiously:

1. They don't wait for the weekend to live.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

It's crazy to think that about 10 years ago the internet felt gigantic: blogs, forums, hundreds of random sites, communities. Today it feels like we're stuck living on the same three sites, four apps, and AI. The internet got bigger, but somehow it feels smaller.

[Dr. Aman Kumar @manish__aman]

In last one week:

🔴NEET-UG cancelled
🔴Interns are protesting for stipend increase in J&K
🔴INICET centres allotted very far for thousands of candidates
🔴AIIMS Jodhpur Neurosurgery resident intentionally failed for 3 times by professor

At every level, the system is f*cked.

[Aditya @adityacasm_]

- Line Spacing 1.5
- Font size 12
- Font style Times New Roman
- Your citation is poor
- Print 4 copies, 3 for the department and one for you

This is where it ends...

[Dr. Sandip Sur @SandipSur8]

Can't even conduct one f**ing exam properly.
Big L NTA🤡🤡

[ANI @ANI]

National Testing Agency, with the approval of the Government of India, has decided to cancel the NEET (UG) 2026 examination conducted on 3 May 2026, and to re-conduct the examination on dates that will be notified separately.

[greg @greg16676935420]

So did the astronauts just go to the moon to make sure it was still there or what was the purpose of the mission

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Walking alone through a foreign city at night and realizing how far you’ve come has to be a top 3 peak moment of all time

[NASA @NASA]

1972 ➡️2026
Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II

[Wizarding World Direct @WW_Direct]

Tom Felton has reached out to Lox Pratt

“Have as much fun as possible, take as many pictures as you can, steal as many props as you can — they’ll be worth a fortune. But also, if you do need a word of encouragement or questions to ask, I’m there.”

(via: Happy Sad Confused)

[Laura Vater, MD, MPH @doclauravater]

Most patients don't realize their doctors and nurses think about them in the spaces between visits. While driving home, getting ready for bed, while falling asleep.

Our work is a part of us, and we care about you. That's all.

[Dr. Nikhil @DrNikhilMD]

I was born in a general category family. Not rich. Not influential. Just a simple middle class home where every decision is about managing expenses and surviving another month.

From childhood we were told one thing. Study hard. That’s your only way up.

So we did.

Late nights. Extra classes. Parents cutting down their own needs to pay coaching fees. Education loans before we even earn our first salary.

And every year, reservation keeps increasing. New proposals. New bills. More seats divided. More relaxations added.

For us, it feels like the space keeps shrinking.

The cut offs rise. The competition gets tighter. The pressure becomes suffocating. One mistake and you are out.

People assume general category means privilege. But many of us come from families with no land, no business, no backup. Just salaried parents or daily struggles. Still, we are expected to compete at the highest bar with zero support.

When reservation keeps expanding year after year, it does not just change numbers on paper. It changes the psychology of an entire generation.

It creates fear.

Fear that merit alone may not be enough.
Fear that opportunities are narrowing.
Fear that no one is listening.

This is not about taking anything away from anyone. It is about asking a simple question.

Should opportunity be decided only by category forever?

If help is needed, give it based on real economic hardship. Support those who genuinely struggle. But do not ignore thousands who are also fighting silently just because of a label.

We are not asking for sympathy.
We are not asking for special treatment.

We are asking for balance.
We are asking for fairness.
We are asking to be seen.

[Dr. Sandip Sur @SandipSur8]

@DocPriyamMD As Esophageal Causes:
1. Diffuse Esophageal Spasm (DES)
2. Spontaneous Esophageal Perforation (Boerhaave Syndrome)

And other surgical causes like
Hiatal Hernia, Gall bladder diseases, Acute Pancreatitis (referred pain to chest)

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

Suppose 10,000 monkeys take NEET-PG exam (or one persistent monkey takes it 10,000 times). There are 200 questions. The reward for correct answer is 4 and the penalty for wrong answer is -1. If the monkeys don't attempt, they get 0 marks.

Let's assume the monkeys haven't qualified MBBS and randomly mark all 200 questions.

Expected value of a random guess = (probability correct × reward) + (probability wrong × penalty)
= (1/4)(+4) + (3/4)(-1)
= 1 + -0.75
= +0.25

So what will be the group average of this monkey group ?
If we simulate that, we get an average mark of +50. (see pic for distribution, done with R)

Sure, many monkeys will score negative marks, but the group average is still positive.

Now let's turn to human NEET -PG doctor with -40 marks. Government says he/she's competent.

If a doctor can't even beat the average score of a bunch of monkeys, does it matter if they are "competent" because government says so?

Forget MD/ MS, why shouldn't their MBBS be declared null and void ?

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

What a stupid logic!

1. Completing MBBS is not a measure of competence because first, candidates enter MBBS through the same diluted cut-offs and reservation regime, and then pass due to an increasingly lenient examination system.

There was a time under Pune University in Maharashtra when nearly half a batch failed First MBBS. After liberalisation and the shift to MUHS, Nashik, failure became uncommon. And since NMC replaced MCI, failure has become impossible thanks to commercialisation, lenient exams, inflated internals, moderation, and fear of complaints ensure that once admitted, students pass regardless of competence.

2. If qualifying MBBS truly guaranteed clinical and cognitive competence, that competence would logically manifest in NEET-PG. Instead, the system now requires dragging the cut-off down to –40 to accommodate candidates. In an exam where someone blindly marking one option for all questions can score 50 marks, someone scoring –40 reflects the lowest level of intellectual performance known to mankind. Can you call them competent?

If MBBS alone guarantees competence, NEET-PG is redundant. Ranking is pointless. Merit is irrelevant. Random seat allocation would suffice.

So a better logic from the Centre would have been that they are reducing the cut-off to minus 40 to foil some deep-state conspiracy, which the cattle class would realise in 2047.

[Dr Sudhir Kumar MD DM @hyderabaddoctor]

🔸Awake craniotomies have been routinely performed in several leading hospitals in India (including CMC Vellore and AIIMS, New Delhi) for the past 2-3 decades.
🔸The main idea is to preserve (or avoid injuries to) vital brain structures (involved with motor functions, speech, etc.) during surgery.

[Dr. Sandip Sur @SandipSur8]

@DrAkhilX "A/C/C"
Alert, Conscious, Cooperative

And for babies, "C/R/A/T = Good"
Cry, Reflex, Activity, Tone