Ever seen a terrarium and wondered how a living green plant could survive without having access water and air? It’s an interesting concept – one that relies on three basic but vital plant processes – photosynthesis, respiration and the water cycle (the latter not being a plant process per se but a common phenomenon). I …
Author Archives: Raghav Khanna
Book review – This is going to hurt by Adam Kay
‘This is going to hurt’ is hands down the best medicine related book I have ever read. Written in a hilarious yet kinda heartbreaking way, this book allows a reader to dive into the difficult life of a junior doctor. The book is actually Adam Kay’s diary, which he maintained during the course of his …
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Book Reviews – Better, By Dr. Atul Gawande
When we talk about books related to medicine, one often comes across books whose authors extensively write about their own experiences in medicine – their first day as a surgical resident, the first complex procedure that they performed solo, the kinds of patients they operate on, etc. However, one hardly comes across books that explore …
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My experiences in care environment
‘Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid’ Have you ever reflected on how easily you are to be able to carry out daily activities without any difficulty? We hardly ever give any thought to …
COVID-19- What causes it, what’s the current situation and are we closer to a cure?
The 2019 novel coronavirus, officially called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a virus that has taken the world by storm. Similar to the 2002-2003 SARS virus (about 80%) which attained worldwide attention when in killed over 770 people, COVID-19 has crossed 64,000 infected people and over 1400 deaths as of February the …
Artificial Intelligence workshop
Humankind never stops innovating, and one of the technologies that is driving innovation is artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is predicted to cause a paradigm shift in the way medicine and healthcare works . Since it’s never a bad idea to get yourself upto date with the latest technologies, I decided to participate in a 10 …
Artificial Intelligence and how babies learn to walk
I recently undertook a ten day artificial intelligence course that was conducted by Stanford grad students and alumni. The experience was pretty great, and I learnt everything from python programming to the applications of AI (I’ll be covering more on the course in the next post). My course mainly focused on machine learning (ML), which …
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My visit to the body world exhibition
It’s not very often that one gets a glimpse of what it looks like inside the human body. There’s only one place you can actually see that – an Operating Theatre (or a dissection room, for that matter). I’d had already seen live operations, but the Body Worlds Plastination exhibition in Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi …
Vaping- the man made epidemic
While going through the news a few days earlier, I was surprised to see that the world’s first double lung transplant due to vaping was performed recently. This wasn’t, of course, very surprising- it has been proven that E-cigarettes contain toxic substances like Nicotine, Glycerol, heavy metals and Carcinogens, which makes them a perfect recipe …
My Internship
While having a passion for a certain future job is certainly good, it always helps if one gets first-hand experience as to what the job entails. I’ve had some seniors who had a future goal in mind, but decided that the job was just too boring for them. I myself was pretty sure that medicine …
The Nobel prize for Medicine, 2019
The Nobel for medicine has been awarded to a scientist trio- Dr. William G. Kaelin, from Harvard University, Dr. Peter Ratcliffe from the UK’s University of Oxford, and Dr. Gregg L. Semenza from Johns Hopkins University. Their research on how cells adapt to various levels of oxygen availability has opened up many new ways to fight often fatal diseases …
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