Trauma doesn't make people stronger. It damages their nervous system. It hijacks their digestive track. It keeps the person in a constant loop of hypervigilance. To tell someone they are stronger because of trauma is to deny what it has cost them to survive.
Dhanyavaad, Thank you, @isro for:
—Teaching us how to aim for the stars
—Making us believe in our own abilities
—Showing us how to deal with failure & use it as a platform to rise again.
And above all, making us Proud to be Indian.
#Chandrayaan3
This clip went around the world last week. A Chimpanzee in Cameroon, Africa apparently asked for a photographers’s help in drinking water; then repaid him by washing his hands gently… A useful applied lesson: If you want to succeed, then assist & support those in your community & workplace & you will, in turn, be supported by them… #MondayMotivation
I asked the students to guess how many prizes I won as a student. There were answers ranging from 10- 100. I told them I won only one prize. And winning or losing shouldn’t be a deterrent to dreaming big. There were claps all around.
1. Arti to me "Dr, when will my husband Anuj start talking & walking?" Her two kids aged 3 & 5 were holding her hands, as Anuj was brought into my OPD for review one month after suffering brain hemorrhage. Anuj had become paralysed on right side and lost his speech due to stroke
10 qualities that make a #doctor popular (among #patients)
Surprisingly, it is not the #NEETPG score, reputation of medical college, gold medals received in medical college or number of research papers published. After 30 yrs as a practicing doctor, I present my observations here