Doctor’s Day: Musings of a Gastro-Surgeon
Dedicated to all the moms, dads, spouses, kids and siblings of doctors It is never easy to be a doctor’s family member, isn’t it?. With a whole lot of mercurial ambitions the medical student steps into the medical school, what he faces is a long and tortuous road ahead with […]
What The Patient Needs To Know About Helicobacter Pylori
In this issue of Gut Speak, here is dealing with the common term you’ve heard- but not fully aware of- Helicobacter Pylori. If you thought peptic ulcers in stomach and duodenum are mostly due to stress, improper diet pattern, NSAID (pain medications), smoking and alcohol, well, there is one other very […]
Dr. Google: This Doctor On How To Treat An IDIOT
Sounds arrogant? It isn’t so. IDIOTs are not what you think. Read ahead… Do you have the habit of googling for symptoms that you vaguely seem to have? Do you search the net for information on medicines your doctor has prescribed? Do you blindly stop the treatment after worrying about […]
Dehydration In Children- Warning Signs & Prevention
Most of the human body is made of water, so when the temperature rises and the body tries to cool itself by sweating, dehydration can be a real concern, particularly for children especially in the summer months. Total body water constitutes approximately 75 per cent of body weight at birth […]
Artificial Intelligence In Healthcare – Can It Replace The Doctor?
Just imagine a scenario wherein with your MRI of the knee joint, a software can predict your risk of developing a disease like osteoarthritis, based on pattern profiling of million of other MRIs to predict whether you are at risk and also offer preventive options for the same. A new […]
Explaining the Genetics of Cancer
A segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity. The above definition of a gene though baffling makes us understand the simple fact […]
GutSpeak 1: Here’s how you can bid goodbye to GERD
GERD stands for Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease – Mr. S, a 30 yr old male went to his doctor with complaints of heartburn, regurgitation, difficulty in swallowing, vomiting, occasional chest pain and episodic attacks of asthma at night. He further said that this discomfort was more obvious after meals and […]
Facts about the Frustrating Fistula
Anal Fistula (Fistula in Ano) is an abnormal passage or a track (communication) between the interior of the anal canal or rectum and the skin surface. Rarer forms may communicate with the vagina or other pelvic structures, including the bowel, says Consultant Gastroenterologist, Dr S Srivatsan Gurumurthy Historical connotation: The disease -anal […]
What should one do when you encounter a snake bite?
Snake bite occurs commonly in the rural areas throughout the tropics and farmers, villagers, hunters are at risk. Around 15 per cent of the 3000 or so different types of poisonous snakes that exist are regarded as posing a potential risk to humans.For example in India vipers, cobras and kraits […]