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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

MD-PhD program opening at IISc! How exciting🥳

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3 years

I recently completed a clinical elective @HopkinsMedicine . Observed a few things I would love seeing incorporated in the Indian system-

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3 years

There are two types of patients- those who have zero faith in the intern and those who have more faith in the intern than the intern herself😂

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4 years

When relatives say,"Your daughter is like a son.", I feel so enraged. Example of deep rooted patriarchy. As if being a son is the epitome of being a good child. I am a daughter and very proud of that!

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2 years

Finally received my ECFMG certificate🥺🥳 Dedicated to my best friend in med school who saw me through a very challenging time and who always had more faith in me than I did❤ You know who you are!

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4. Reducing the hierarchy in training. One can be respectful without unnecessary gestures of respect- calling someone sir/ma'am or having to stand up when they enter the room. Let's make the atmosphere more friendly and conducive to learning..

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3 years

One can not fully grasp how terrifying covid is unless one works in the wards. Yesterday someone would be apparently fine and today you see their CPR being done. It is a truly terrible disease. Stay safe.

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Can't believe it's my last day of med school! Will be a full-fledged doctor from tomorrow. I hope life mein kal se sab set ho jaega 😇

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3 years

1. Patient communication skills. Med students should be taught how to effectively convey information. As Indian patients become more educated and empowered, we must change the paternalistic medicine we have been practicing (while being culturally sensitive).

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4 years

Relaxation in med school = wasting time to an extent that it guilts you into studying again 🙃

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3 years

2. Protected research time. Indian clinicians are as good as their Western counterparts. We are significantly behind when it comes to producing good quality research. It would be great if the excellent clinicians we have here are supported more to boost their research output.

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3 years

3. EMR. As the world goes digital, it's high time we adopt a good EMR system. It is tedious to go through huge paper files of complex patients. Also,it would save time and cost to not have to repeat testing due to lost records.

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3 years

The biggest learning from my internship so far is that good healthcare delivery requires a lot of systemic and administrative support. Doesn't start or end with just good clinical acumen.

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3 years

..and let's make looking up something on the phone normal!

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

Excited to start today as a Post Doc @UTSW Cardiology! Looking forward to lots of learning and fun😄

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

Why can everyone outrage over a stupid slap but no non-medico says a single thing when a doctor commits suicide under political pressure over a known complication? How screwed up are we? #RIPDrArchana

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

When I was in high school, I used to love reading books by Richard Feynman. I devoured all of his books- memoirs, lectures on physics, QED. Although I was never too good at Physics, I used to love understanding the theoretical aspects and the way Feynman taught it blew my mind.

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Lajjaben Patel

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11 months

Presented our work on sflt-1 and HF, gave in to the Ghee goodness and learned that GLP-1s will rescue me. #AHA23 done right. @rmauriciomd @utswheart @LovedeepDhingra

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2 years

Looking forward to lots of learning at the @ISCEP_info seminar!

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Lajjaben Patel

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5 years

For Corona fatigued, intellectual stimulation seeking populace! 2nd April, 5 pm on Zoom @KaushikLab

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

Me: Trying to focus hard during last 2 blocks of step 2 My brain: Baby shark doo doo doo

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

At that stage of living on my own where I know how to handle bad moments but still don't know how to celebrate joy alone!

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

Also the fact that school life achievements took very little long term work- you work hard for a test for a day and you get a "Very good" and a star on your face the next day. Instant gratification!Real life achievements take consistent long term effort and hardly anyone notices

Umme H. Faisal, MBBS

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3 years

The problem with people who were good students in school is that they've grown up believing that hard work is directly proportional to success in life. Additionally, their sense of self worth depends solely on the amount of time they spend being productive.

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Lajjaben Patel

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1 year

Had such a great time presenting our work @AmerGeriatrics #AGS23 ! So grateful for my incredible mentors @ambarish4786 @NeilKeshvani 💫

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

I often get comments about my height. Today's was the best- A patient said ma'am aapki height kitni zyada hai. Mein dekhke soch rahi thi ab khatam hogi...ab khatam hogi par ho hi nahi rahi😂

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Lajjaben Patel

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5 years

Published an article on Medium on Factors influencing RT-PCR for COVID-19 testing : Do read and share :) @Tavpritesh @VidurMahajan1 @LovedeepDhingra @arnavk @Arushi12262775

Addressing the Ws of RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2

It is important to understand the factors that influence results of RT-PCR to optimally use the test for COVID-19 diagnosis.

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Lajjaben Patel

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4 years

I woke up laughing today. Had a dream where I was a stand up comic cracking awesome jokes. I am funny- in my dreams

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

It's another level of happiness to see sinus rhythm after defibrillation :) Especially when done by you, a lowly intern :D

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

Excited to be here at @AHAMeetings !

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2 years

Glad that women have progressed from being called witches to being called overeducated underloved.😎

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

Afternoon naps are restart button for the brain.

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2 years

When you are moving out, the "lasts" at home hit different- meals, showers, hugs

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

If you have ever had a night out you must know how you feel the next morning. Now imagine doing that repeatedly for 2 years- and not while chilling- but taking hundreds of potentially life altering decisions. It's cruel to expect anyone to survive like this.

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

After starting to see patients in a busy opd setting myself, I realize that the residents who were always gentle with their patients and managed to teach med students are the OGs! Appreciation for them has increased 100×.

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

A few days ago, I was taking a cab ride back home after a license appointment and began chatting with the uber driver about buying a car. Turns out, he was also a car mechanic. I had the most educational 30 min cab ride of my life😂

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Lajjaben Patel

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@EliteHypocrite @stethospeaks Isn't this the same as saying that women shouldn't go out after dark? Why should we curb our freedom to post a simple picture because of some pervs? They should be punished, not us.

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

Excited to share our work on social determinants of health in heart failure patients! @adsumarsono @UTSWInternalMed >80% HF patients were burdened by at least 2 SDOH domains, with socio-economic minorities disproportionately affected.

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Lajjaben Patel

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4 years

Sometimes I drink coffee just so that I can attribute my anxiety to it😂

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Lajjaben Patel

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5 years

Thank you so much @KaushikLab for the talk today! It was so frank, informative and human at the same time ❤️ Sharing some notes made by one of the participants!

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

It was around this time last year that we as fresh interns were posted in the COVID wards. We were very enthusiastic about helping our patients in the time of need but were completely unprepared for the devastation we saw.

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

Thank you @KaushikLab and @TTASIndia for this wonderful opportunity! I had such a fun time interacting with the kids! Was a great learning experience for me in science communication ❤

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2 years

3. If you want to learn something new, you have to be willing to suck at it initially! I am so glad I finally learnt to cook Indian food this year :)

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

There is something about the way school teachers carry themselves. I can always tell which of my patients are teachers!😂

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

Just like it's rude to call after 10 pm, it should be rude to call between 2 pm to 5 pm. -Siesta premi

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2 years

Have you ever started running on a treadmill to channel that rage but realized you were too out of shape😂

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

1. One can learn anything at any age and point in life: Met a physician who started learning to do research at the age of 50. Met a professional dancer and director of a dance academy who began to learn dancing in her late 30s.

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Lajjaben Patel

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4 years

Adulting is being shocked when everything goes right instead of when something goes wrong.

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3 years

We just can't keep treating the doctors in this country the way we do. It is demoralizing and dehumanizing.

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3 years

What is happening to residents is simply unacceptable. One batch is fatigued with overwork while the other is frustrated with a year wasted. The ripple effect of all this will be seen very soon. #neetpg2021counselling #ResidentDoctors

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2 years

Writing a manuscript be like: Aise Kyun Kuch To Likhti Hoon Likh Ke Mitati Hoon Main Raat Bhar

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2 years

2. Having a support system makes a ton of difference. I feel so blessed to be surrounded by people who make me feel loved and I actively try to maintain those relationships.

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2 years

My top 3 learnings from the year 2022:

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3 years

@netshrink Recently, we MBBS students @SciSocAIIMS have started a critical appraisal series. First year students appraise papers and present them. It is such an important skill to develop. @dramulyagupta @ArchismanMazum1 @arun_ela

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Lajjaben Patel

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5 years

@DGlaucomflecken @Rdoherty102 Love the fact that your "Yes" has more likes than all my tweets combined :) @DGlaucomflecken

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

Perhaps the most important concept I learnt in path is- Infection,autoimmunity and malignancy are pro inflammatory states. Have used this at so many different places, especially to remember causes of various pathologies. #MedTwitter

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

Also realized what I must sound like to my patients when I drone on about the human body😷

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3 years

@baxirahul

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

It is so fun to see the instant response of heart rate to external stimulus- needles, noise, warm blankets, soothing words. You can see how what you do directly impacts the patient.

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Lajjaben Patel

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4 years

Nothing teaches you the importance of listening to both the narratives than mediating between your younger sibling and your parents XD

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

#Qala is such a masterpiece. Superb acting, beautiful cinematography and heartbreaking storyline💔

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

@Adityaiims Doctors are the softest targets for taking out all frustrations. It is so difficult to change the system so just blame someone you easily can.

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

If you haven't already, do read Educated by Tara Westover. An extremely powerful memoir on what it is like to have suffered from trauma and abuse, to have lived in a dysfunctional family and most of all, what it means to be "educated".

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Lajjaben Patel

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5 years

AIIMS Undergraduate Science Society welcomes all for a talk by Dr. Gagandeep Kang! Date:19 Feb Venue: LT3 Time 5:30 pm Very excited to hear @GKangInd !

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

If only I had a dollar for everytime cefixime was prescribed for Typhoid based on a "positive" Widal🤒

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

I sincerely hope we learned something from the whole mess - better administration, better preparedness, and most importantly, empathy. My thoughts and prayers are with families who lost their loved ones.

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

Shouldn't surgeries start with "It's lights out and away we go"?😂

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

Inspired by @mahimavashisht , I wrote an article about some of my positive experiences working as an intern in ObsGyn at a PHC. Do give it a read! (~3 min) Women, Haryana

Women, Haryana

Women, Haryana. Just hearing these words makes most of us think about female infanticides and dowry and honor killings and domestic…

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

Working with supportive seniors instantly lifts up my spirits! Especially if they are kind and gentle with the patients.

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3 years

If you are looking to rekindle your love for reading, #AnxiousPeople is the perfect book to start with. Easy to read and extremely heart warming. Had to take pauses to process my feelings and cry a little. What a gem of a book!

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

Taking a BLS refresher this Rakhi 💅✌

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

2 of my favorite letters: 1. A letter to his dead wife. The best love letter ever written imho:

Richard Feynman’s Letter to His Departed Wife: “You, Dead, Are So Much Better Than Anyone Else...

In June 1945, the 27-year-old physicist Richard Feynman lost his wife, Arline Feynman, to tuberculosis. Only 25 years old, she was Richard's high-school sweetheart. And yet she was much more. As...

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2 years

TV series/movie recs please!! I love everything from Ted Lasso to Tony Soprano

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Lajjaben Patel

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5 years

@dr_ashwitt Patient: I had pain *here*. Indicates left side. Me: Patient had pain in left flank Examiner: I am the consultant on this patient and I know it was on the right side. Examiner to the patient: Was it on the right or the left? Patient: Right Me: *Boom*

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

Attended an in person class after a long time and boy, it was so much fun! We had small group discussions followed by a larger discussion. Zoom can never compete with a well done in person session! The energy in the room ❤

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Lajjaben Patel

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4 years

It's always a great experience to hear and share experiences :)

The Scientific Society, AIIMS New Delhi

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4 years

Day 3 of the #ResearchinMBBS workshop is over. Great talks by @ManrajSra @LajjaPatel20 @aditi_rao99 @ArchismanMazum1 Thank you participants for showing such enthusiasm. Hope you gained something from this workshop.

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2 years

@Rishabh2970 Yes, of course! There is so much to medicine than just cardiology

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Lajjaben Patel

@LajjaPatel20

5 years

Helped organise a workshop on neuroscience and artificial intelligence for high schoolers @IISERPune The kids interacted with fantastic researchers and asked a variety of very insightful questions! Hope they got inspired to take up research in the future!

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Lajjaben Patel

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4 years

@yogesh_kalkonde @spkalantri @ProfSomashekhar We spend way too much time learning basic sciences. Instead of enzymes of Krebs cycle, please teach us how to communicate with our patients effectively/how to appraise a paper!

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

One of my favorite excerpts: "The truth. There isn’t any. All we’ve managed to find out about the boundaries of the universe is that it hasn’t got any, and all we know about God is that we don’t know anything...

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Lajjaben Patel

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5 years

Looking forward to active participation in Online paper presentation competition by @SciSocAIIMS !

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3 years

...So the only thing a mom who was a priest demanded of her family was simple: that we do our best. We plant an apple tree today, even if we know the world is going to be destroyed tomorrow."

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

If Haas can do it, you can do it too! @F1 #MondayMotivation

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

We can't even strike because the work we do directly affects people's lives. If we are taking care of our patients despite such working conditions it is high time the public acknowledges our efforts and gets themselves educated on what medical science can..

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

@DrShauryaGarg Yes please. People who work 9 to 5 in safe work environments have no idea. And the argument that we signed up for this is just so absurd. An 18 year old is not expected to realize what befalls them 5 years later.

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

@DrShauryaGarg @AnujAggarwal44 Shall I send screenshots of the chats where you beg me for entry dila de? 😛

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Lajjaben Patel

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@stethospeaks If you want to try Rajasthani-Gujju cuisine, Rajasthali is a good place. They will feed you till you can't move. If you want to treat yourself with something fancy, The Grammar room is lovely. Sit outside, enjoy a nice view.

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

More than his cooking skills, I want some of @ranveerbrar 's personality. His cooking videos are such a joy to watch!

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Lajjaben Patel

@LajjaPatel20

5 years

@KaushikLab @AnushaRohit @Raksha_Bhat @LovedeepDhingra Totally agree. The idea of a "superior" branch is absurd. This mindset has to change, and will hopefully change post this pandemic. One can excel in and contribute significantly in any branch.

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

2. A letter providing advice to the son of a worried father. It provides me with so much solace when I worry too much about the future.

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

While I am on the rant train, FQs plus Metro for acute watery diarrhea🥲 Why people why? Can we please stop the abuse of antibiotics?

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2 years

@AdiG1993 I found the Approaches to various symptoms in Harrison (Initial few chapters of the book) to be quite useful. Then I just used uptodate for most of the chapters and looked at some of the Harrison algorithms or tables if needed.

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"Actually if you love it enough you can’t help it, if anyone will give you a little freedom..... The real fun of life is this perpetual testing to realize how far out you can go with any potentialities." @ProfFeynman @FeynmanBot

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Lajjaben Patel

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@anushsweth It helps a lot. I had all my notes on OneNote and used to carry my iPad on all the rounds. You can enter any clinical point you learn right there. Much better than writing it on paper that you will never find again.

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4 years

@ciaranmmooney How I remember: Right side is our dominant side- has 3 lung lobes and 3 cusps in AV valve(Tricuspid)

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Lajjaben Patel

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2 years

@sopranos_vibes Disagree🙈 I have a pretty short attention span but was completely hooked to the show. It's beautifully directed. Even if the pace is slow, there is no "useless" moment.

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3 years

@Adit_Agr @DrShauryaGarg @DrAditya2935 @AnuragAgrawalMD @yogesh_kalkonde @cspramesh

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Lajjaben Patel

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3 years

Precious pearls! Would add- Allow adequate time for patients to ask questions. It takes time to process new information and come up with questions.

Pamela Kunz, MD, FASCO

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3 years

I spent many hours last week observing the practice of medicine while sitting at my mom’s hospital bedside and was reminded of some important communication pearls. Some musings… 🧵 1/n

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4 years

Right after I watch a video of Tristan Harris on YouTube, I get ad of Norton on Facebook 😂 The irony🙃

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3 years

@paraschopra It's fun to see that knowledge that one "takes for granted" can be so interesting to people outside one's field!

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