How could things have gotten so bad so quickly? Not so very long ago, all had seemed completely normal to the extent that all routine activities including sporting events, weddings, movie theatre screenings etc had been resumed. Even large gatherings were being...
The year 2020 is one which everyone would like to forget or writeoff, nevertheless the challenges it created also brought about innovation and adoption of technologies at an unprecedented levels. The economic fallout from the pandemic has been massive and will...
The essential difference between both is the presence of radiologists on site. In conventional radiology practice, the radiologist is present physically at the site of imaging, whereas in teleradiology, the images are interpreted remotely by a radiologist who is not...
Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death and is predominantly the reason for increased incidences of serious, long-term disability in the United States. It has been reported that approximately 795,000 people suffer a stroke and more than 140,000 die annually because...
In the words of Martin Luther King “Only in the darkness can you see the stars”. The Covid-19 pandemic continues to loom like a specter over our country, and the world. Despite weeks of lockdown the numbers of new infections continues to rise or remain static. The...
Tripura is India’s third smallest state situated in northeastern India with 0.3% of India’s population. It lies in a geographically disadvantageous terrain with only one major highway, connecting it to the rest of the country. For a heavily forested, geographically...
There is a great story in the Indian mythological tour de force the Mahabharata about Arjuna and Duryodhana, representing the forces of good and evil respectively, coming to visit their mentor Lord Krishna to seek his support for their respective armies during battle....
A trip of mine to Paris three years ago was bizarrely disrupted by the river Seine flooding its banks. This week once again the Seine is threatening to flood and the mayor of Paris is quoted as saying that this is “clearly a question of the town adapting to climate...
An awful lot is being said today about radiologist burnout. Hardly a week passes by without a dire article on the subject on the front page of a radiology journal. Surveys indicate that the majority of radiologists are burned out, and some of these even delve into...
I recently attended an interesting lecture hosted by the New India Foundation on the subject of How to Fix Primary Education in India, by an eminent speaker from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Prof Esther Duflo, in which she elegantly described, using...