Friday, October 31, 2008

TEE Quiz

What is this "thing " in LA ?

Before Bypass

After Bypass

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Inspiring Subrato..

Thanks to the benevolence of Dr.Thimmappa, we were all gifted with a feast of inspiring talks by Mr. Subrato and his colleagues of MindTree consultancy on "Vision building" on a lovely saturday. This wonderful present came bundled with a healthy and sumptuous lunch from e-inn and a personally autographed book,"Go kiss the world", of the great, Mr.Subrato. It was very interesting and informative session, with some highly motivating and spiritually uplifting movies served in between. I particularly liked the one by Mr. Dewitt Jones, ace photographer of NatGeo.
All the speakers were very eloquent and seem to be well aware of how to captivate the crowd. They elaborated on the importance of having a vision and motivating your team members to share that vision and collectively work towards realising that vision. Systematic thinking and tools to acheive that, were wonderfully presented by Mr. Kalyan in a very cheerful and joyful way. The guy just grows on you and you can't just help but liking him. Though we couldn't hear much of Mr. Raja, since Mr.Subrato kept interrupting him very often, I found the guy very friendly and as someone with whom you can talk about just anything. I guess its the smile.I found the idea of "Communication real estates" quite interesting.. I guess it's one of the very important facilitators for any team to work cohesively and succeed. I wish we had something similar in our institution also. I personally feel that here in NH, much thought hasn't been given to any such concepts. It was nice to see many big heads of our institution actively participate in all the discussions and it will be really interesting to see how much of it will be really applied into practice here in NH.
There's no doubt that its necessary to attend such meetings, but what is more important is to stay inspired..

Friday, October 10, 2008

Kidney plus Pancreas transplant

Hi All,
It is with great pride I inform that we will be doing our first kidney plus pancreas transplant on a young 25 year old girl on Monday 12/10/08. This is going to be a great challenge for our team and I am sure that we will come out with flying colours. Under the able guidance of our HOD Dr. K.Muralidhar we have crossed many frontiers and this will add another feather to our cap.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Welcome Freshers!!

This spring has been eventful in our department. Along with some really noteworthy changes like Prashanth quitting( he is in the greener pastures now!), three of my colleagues being thrusted with paternal responsibilities and me successfully spending a full month on the "floor", we have had a whiff of fresh air in the department now. We saw an addition of 8 DNB students and 4 clinical assistants to our growing family. First of all, let me take this oppurtunity to welcome them all to our beloved group.
But, with bigger family comes bigger problems. There have been some adjustment problems in the initial few days and from what i foresee the difficult and disturbing phase is over already. I hope there will be more comraderie and good will amongst the junior members of our kinfolk.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

F. IACTA

It is a two year fellowship course offered by the lone CardioThoracic Anaesthesiology organisation in India, Indian Association of CardioThoracic Anaesthesiologists. The association is striving hard to set rigorous and high quality assessment stangards before awarding the fellowship. This is being reflected in the passing percentage of the fellowship exams in the last two years. In the first year of its inception(that is last year), the percentage of successful candidates was about 42% and this year it has been a miserly 33.3%.
There were five candidates from our institution and we are glad to announce that our pass percentage is a tad better than the overall figure, a handsome 40%. Our successful candidates are Dr. Anil Kumar H R and Dr. Madhu. M