Rakesh Khera (MGIMS Class of 1986) took to urology like a duck to water. Much water has flown since he acquired his MCH in Urosurgery, but his insatiable thirst for knowledge remains unquenched.
Rakesh has just put up a book on Urinary Tract Infections.
Although UTIs are common, doctors do not know how to handle them. Badly neglected, poorly detected, irrationally treated and terribly managed, UTI can be a source of incessant sorrow to the sufferer. Rakesh invited healthcare professionals from a wide range of medical specialties, asked them to blend their experience with evidence and then edited the book, the way surgeons would wield their scalpels. Self-admittedly, he spent two years to make sure that the authors produce a clear and accurate prose and do not colour it by their whims and idiosyncrasies.
I havenโt read the book yet. But I do hope that this treatise would help the doctors understand scientific ways to treat or prevent UTISโin the communities, outpatient settings, wards, intensive care units and geriatric homes. It is not easy to conquer the microbes that thrive in a human bladder and doctors are known to make terrible mistakes when they encounter microbes in the urinary tract. I hope that this book should help doctors know how to deliver a blow that knocks them out.
