I am a doctor trained in India, and I write this blog for the reader who has just left a clinic with more questions than answers, or who has typed a symptom into a search box at midnight and found only product pages.
Medicine sits at a strange place in India. We have excellent clinicians and very little time per patient, so explanations get compressed into a prescription and a sentence. The gap is filled by advertisements, forwarded messages and half-remembered advice. The guides here are my attempt to fill that gap properly: one topic at a time, in plain language, with the evidence linked so you can check it.
Where my interests lie
I have not yet settled on a single specialty, and I have decided to be open about that rather than pretend otherwise. The areas that pull at me hardest are dermatology, especially what genuinely makes skin healthy; cardiology, because heart disease reaches Indians a decade earlier than it should; neurosurgery and the nervous system; radiology, where a scan report is a language patients are never taught; and general medicine, which is where most of real life happens.
Writing across all five is deliberate. The same discipline applies to each: say what is known, say how well it is known, and say when to see someone in person.
How I decide what to write
- It has to be a question people in India actually ask, in the words they use.
- There has to be a guideline or a good body of evidence to stand on, or the guide says plainly that there is not.
- It has to be safe to act on without seeing me. If it is not, the guide's job is to tell you who to see and how soon.
- It must not sell anything. There are no products, affiliate links or sponsored posts on this blog.
Corrections
If you find an error, please write to me. Every guide shows its last review date, and corrections are made on the page rather than quietly.