Friday, May 21, 2021
अमर बेल
Sunday, November 29, 2020
Slaughterer rain
I would have fallen in love
with this cool breeze,
Light drizzle falling on lush green trees,
Would have looked like pearl, the drops on the leaves,
From my hectic schedule, it would have felt like a breather,
But today I hate, I abhor, I detest this weather!
These drops look like tears of blood,
The small puddles look like sorrowful flood,
Today can not forgive this murderous rain,
For killing an innocent brother,
a saviour gone in vain,
We just pray
for we don't know
how to prevail over
this agonizing pain!!
किसी और दिन
मेरा मन मोह लेता
झोंका ये ठंडी हवा का,
ये मंद-मंद बारिश कि फुहार,
नयी कोपलों पर बूँदों का मोतियों सा हार,
मेरे मन को फिर से रोमांचित कर देता
किंतू इस मौसम से धृणा होती है इस वक्त
यह पानी प्रतीत होता है भयावह रक्त,
कैसे आनंद देगी ये हत्यारिन वर्षा
साँस में संत्रास
तिमिराच्छन्न सकल आकाश,
हर साँस में संत्रास,
प्रचुर प्रकृति अक्षम देने में स्वांस
आसन्न प्रलय का आभास !
धुंधलका एक ठहरा हुआ,
भय और गहरा हुआ!
क्यों शोर है इतना
है किस बात का उल्लास
मत छोड़ो पदचिह्नों में प्रांगार
हो अंकित धरा पर पदचिन्ह बारम्बार,
भूगर्भ का ईंधन न हो प्रदाह,
चर्म प्रच्छन्न चर्बी करो स्वाह !
अल्पव्ययी हो, प्रकृति की ऊर्जा मत व्यय करो,
केवल स्वयं में समाहित
Being a fool keeps alive the hope
If one has inculcated the habit of being pragmatic, it may become very difficult to think out of the box. Prudence reduces one’s risk taking capacity or to take a chance where odds are against. Sometimes, one faces a situation where logic and science do not offer any hope. At that time, being doltish can come to one’s rescue. Hopelessness can push one into dark and deep realm of depression and wisdom stops one from being hopeful. In such circumstances, being ignorant, uneducated or simply foolish can keep one’s hope alive and serve as an anchor.
Ooty
This post is a proof that we embarked on the journey. We took a taxi from Coimbatore to Ooty to cover the 90 kilometres in 3hours, that costed us 2500 Rs. Unlike Delhi, Sedans were not fitted with CNG and so had sufficient boot space to accommodate all our 4 strollers. Coimbatore is a suitable airport as one can reach Kodaikanal in 4hours and Ooty in 3hours, in opposite directions. Time did not permit us to visit the Adiyogi statue of Lord Shiva in Coimbatore that is the latest attraction of the city. The route to Ooty is via Mettupalayam and Coonoor. Mettupalayam has an adventure water park, where one can spend many hours if one reaches before noon. The toy train or the Nilgiris Mountain Railway, made famous by the song “chal chaiyyan chaiyyan” of “Dil Se”, can be boarded from here to Ooty. I am aware of two other Toy trains or hill trains in India: Shimla (http://deshdeepakwritings.blogspot.in/2016/06/a-man-without-ambition-is-dead-man-but.html) and Darjeeling (Batasia Loop). By train or road one reaches Ooty via Coonoor, that has many sight seeing places!
Ooty is known by the sobriquet,’Queen of Hills’! It is definitely the queen of Nilgiri hills that form a garland between Wesstern Ghats and Eastern Ghats. I have mentioned in some details about various mountain ranges of India in my Pachmarhi blog (http://deshdeepakwritings.blogspot.in/2014/10/pachmarhi-caves-foresthills-waterfalls.html).
Ooty is the nickname of Ootacamand as the place is known in the Toda language. Now called Udhagamandalam in Tamil. Ooty seems to be a classic example of how the british colonisers, came here looking for a cooler place to be made as their summer capital; removed wild forests and started plantation of commercial crops they needed.
We reached with a mixed feeling as many people had conveyed to us that after having visited so many other places, we were not likely to find it exciting. We had booked a hotel online provisionally and that is what came handy as no other place was available due to 4 days long Easter holidays. Kids were disappointed but we had no choice. Next day we didn't get a cab and managed to reach the Botanical Garden hitchhiking!
Monday, September 28, 2020
The turn in the road of life!
Installation of Radial probe EBUS and Cryoprobe recently in our lab marks accomplishment of my vision of 2004. Now, I have all that I had dreamt! Although, there is a sense of achievement, yet the feeling is mixed!
When I started to visualize myself as an independent pulmonologist, I felt I was working in an ill-equipped department. I had the zeal to do much more than what was feasible with my existing armamentarium. I felt I should be able to do much more for my patients rather than just identifying their problems and sending them off to other places. I felt that my sense of self-esteem would be better served if I was able to resolve their issues. The greatest limitation I saw was availability of the equipment.
When I voiced my opinion, I was gently rebuked for yearning like a child. I was given scientific arguments as explanations for the lack of enterprise on my senior's part. People who were big names brushed off my demands citing lack of proven efficacy. I was, but, somewhere convinced and I thought, I needed to wait till more evidence accumulated. However, when the same people who cited lack of proven efficacy, soon bought the same equipment for themselves, I realized the double standards they had! My conviction grew stronger. I somewhere became confident that my thought was not wrong. I understood I needed to wait for the right time. I gradually learnt, one needs to have infinite patience and perseverance.
Over the years, I learnt the process of procurement and it's nuances. Gradually things started to become favorable and as I started achieving results, my morale was boosted. I started getting co-operation as people realized that my intentions were good and my understanding desirable. I started achieving the results that I wanted. My patients were really being benefitted. I could bring the most advanced and expensive modality to the poorest section of the society. I could see my efforts were making a difference to the lives of the under privileged patients who had put their faith and their lives in my hands. I was playing the role I was supposed to and that gave me great work satisfaction.
As I started becoming better equipped, I started facing other limitations. I was working like a one man army. I started missing a good and cohesive team. As I progressed, the need to get further trained became obvious. I made efforts and got myself trained.
Science and nature, both evolve continuously. As I progressed, I realized the discipline was also progressing. Though the pace of my development was not bad but as I reached the end of the road, I saw it was only a turn marking the beginning of a new pursuit. I was happy to begin my next lap with sense of achievement in my heart. Today, when I look back I am pleased to see the distance that I have travelled. However, it also dawns upon me that the peak 20 years of my life have gone!
Shall I continue my pursuit with the same zeal as long as I can? Or shall I consolidate on what I have achieved? Shall I hone my skills and try to perfect the art that I know or shall I continue to learn new things and try achieving new vistas. The realization that my physical and mental faculties will not permit me to learn new things easily for long is scary! Am I aging faster than I should or is it denial of facts? I feel motivated by younger people achieving new heights but am I being unrealistic? Shall I pass on the baton in this relay race of development and view the achievement as a team member rather than having personal goals? But then where is the team?? Where are those team mates? Am I myself responsible for not developing the team or are these the circumstances as I believe?
Then there is a life outside the professional sphere! I have certain responsibilities that only I am supposed to fulfill. Has the time to focus more on life and less on work arrived? Do I have enough sense of achievement to move on? In future will I feel that I achieved my potential or will I narrate my story as 'Had it been........Only if .......'?
Only questions...no answers!
Monday, January 13, 2020
News on various health issues & other videos - Content on Net
https://youtu.be/IRMFLNjlfSg
2. DD National - Air pollution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6t7NVVLAuS0
3. Doordarshan - Good Evening India - Air Pollution
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5sryjYLGJI
4. DD National - Health Show - Tuberculosis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEFGdFwwxZQ
5. COPD Vs Asthma
https://www.india.com/hindi-news/video-gallery/air-pollution-tips-by-dr-ram-manohar-lohia-hospital-dr-desh-deepak-3845080/
6. Effects of winter on respiratory health
https://www.india.com/hindi-news/video-gallery/dr-desh-deepak-health-tips-to-avoid-delhi-air-pollution-3845064/
7. Pollution health tips
https://www.india.com/hindi-news/special-hindi/delhi-pollution-health-tips-smog-in-delhi-pollution-in-delhi-diseases-due-to-pollution-asthma-chronic-bronchitis-pulmonary-expert-opinion-n95-mask-3843791/
8. Winter health tips
https://www.india.com/hindi-news/health/suggestion-of-dr-desh-deepak-senior-pulmonary-physician-dr-rml-hospital-new-delhi-6-tips-for-staying-healthy-during-the-winter-season-3907016/
9. All India.com new articles
https://www.india.com/hindi-news/topic/dr-desh-deepak/
10. Reuters - Deadly political calculations: Why India isn't fixing its toxic smog problem
https://in.reuters.com/article/us-india-pollution-politics-insight/deadly-political-calculations-why-india-isnt-fixing-its-toxic-smog-problem-idINKCN1NB215
11. Reuters - Tens of thousands to run in New Delhi, one of the world's most heavily polluted cities.
https://in.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idINKBN1WW1LQ
12 E-Cigarettes and life style for asthma
https://www.india.com/hindi-news/video-gallery/air-pollution-health-tips-by-dr-desh-deepak-3845152/
13 News 24 - Corona virus
14 DD KIsan - Swasth Kisan 8th February 2020 - Corona and other viral illnesses
https://youtu.be/rh6sIYIfEpU
15 NBT Corona awareness
https://m.facebook.com/story.
16 cityspidey - corona alert
https://www.cityspidey.com/news/11315/raheja-navodaya-residents-meet-mla-over-prevalent-issues-at-society/
17 DD NEWS - covid 19 - 16/03/2020 7:00 pm to 7:30
18 DD news covid 19 - 20/03/2020 7 pm to 7:30
19 DD India - corona - myths &facts 7:30 to 8pm
https://youtu.be/gfJ6PJLEPd8
https://youtu.be/VoBAqFppCOQ
https://youtu.be/eVN_0HnRBzY
20 DD NATIONAL - AROGYA BHARAT - COVID 19 - myths and facts - 23/03/2020
https://youtu.be/uf6dT4JtGk8
21 The Indian Practioner - Expertspeak. COVID-19 in India: Insights from different specialties
https://theindianpractitioner.com/2020/04/08/covid-19-in-india-current-and-future-insights-from-different-specialties/
22 Clinical Management of COVID-19 Cases: Training for Bihar state health samiti. 19/04/2020 4:00 Pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwSRnDKWVsM&feature=youtu.be
Radio shows
10. Vividh Bharti - 106.4 MHz - Sanjeevani Baat sehat ki - 01/01/2017 - COPD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7KZmeU-ioA
11. FM Rainbow 102.6 MHz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GiNbjnKVqM
12. Radio show -https://www.chirbit.com/deshdeepak
13. Radioshow - Expert Speak 102.6 MHz 20/06/2020 (9:30-10:00 PM)
B Other Videos
14. MAMC 91 - Mock anatomy viva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDqOCTbvuhs&list=LLXyUKLmfhP-CsG6d9QpnCCA&index=3&t=0s
15. MIDCON teaser 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bekMXgIAzxw
16. Prashnmanch 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiJaFcXCvmc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEks-dXoePk (Video 2 with Poem)
17. Memories from MIdcon2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO3D2V90T4U&list=PLCMYmEjoMIamGLzuisjPyfLDlB-9ix0La&index=4&t=0s
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