The black fungus
Beginning May 2020, we admitted hundreds of patients with COVID. But in the middle of last month, something changed. Patients arrived with problems we had not yet seen in the … Read more
Medical Practice
Clinical stories and reflections on evidence-based medicine, research, and patient care.
When Covid goes to the villages
Rural India. A third of our population lives in rural India. The COVID-19 pandemic has now entered rural parts of our country and these areas are now carrying twice as … Read more
Covid and Mucor
Covid associated mucormycosis has hit the country. The fungus has also made its way in Covid wards and ICU in Sevagram. The fungus is fast and furious, it destroys the … Read more
Covid19. Evidence based management for hospitalised patients
I designed an evidence-based management protocol for managing patients admitted to our teaching hospital with Covid19. The concept was minimalist: excluding irrational, untested, unproven therapies and focusing only on those … Read more
Covid: Make haste slowly
The novel anti-Covid medicines look promising and appealing, but I’d urge caution in interpreting the study results…