Out of Scope by Dr Khushboo Shah
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Flight or Fright A Doctor’s View from the Boarding Gate
Thursday, 4 pm “Truth or dare?” The sealed mouth of the mineral water bottle faces me. “Truth.” “How did you…
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A Match Made in Hell’s Kitchen- A doctor’s notes on surviving modern plating and dating disasters
“Again?” I squeak. “Again.” The receptionist blinks, in part boredom, part amusement. One of our patients, let us call her…
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A Case of My Own: At the Other End of Patien(t)ce
“Doctor, what if we deferred Dr Tripathi Sir’s appointment to later, at noon? After all other patients are done?” The…
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Superstition, Suspicion and the Suspension of Belief: How quacks, faith, and doubt shape the doctor–patient story
They are huddled in a corner, hands outstretched under the canopy of their heads, faces aglow as stopwatches tick away…
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Driving Them Crazy: A Woman’s Survival Manual on Indian Roads
The watchman was doing exactly what any of us would expect him to do in broad daylight — snoring aloud…
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A Doctor of many Diagnoses
“Sister, are you the doctor?” The man who enters my consultation room sizes me up before I can size him…
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