Learning Haematology and trying to understand the human face of digital health

Tenkasi, India
Joined June 2009
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Who has framed this discriminatory policy? I booked tickets on your airline. You cancelled the flight citing "operational reasons" without providing any alternative on the same day and said I am eligible for "full refund". Your "happiness executive" has informed that I will be charged full "convenience fees" for this inconvenience and that no refund of convenience fees will be made according to airline policy! @AirIndiaX Is @DGCAIndia and @MoCA_GoI sleeping? – at Bidhan Nagar, India
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Well articulated #Indian – at Bidhan Nagar, India
Why the fuck are Indians hated so much? What have they done to deserve this level of hatred? Have Indians promoted terrorism? Have they colonized your countries? Enslaved your people? Stolen your homes? Taken away your families? Kidnapped your children? What exactly have millions of ordinary Indians done to deserve this much racism and hostility? Is it because they're educated, intelligent, ambitious, hardworking, and competing for the same jobs as you? Since when did intelligence and ambition become crimes? Since when did working hard to build a better life become a reason to be hated? If your problem is job displacement, then why aren't you directing the same anger toward artificial intelligence? Why not question AI? Why not question ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Anthropic, OpenAI? AI has the potential to displace far more jobs than Indian immigrants ever could. Yet somehow, the Indian engineer, the Indian student, the Indian doctor, and the Indian worker become your enemies. Why? Because it's easier to target a human being with a different skin colour or accent than to confront the actual economic forces changing your world? And understand one thing clearly. If an Indian refuses to engage with your racism, if they ignore your insults, if they choose not to respond to your hatred, it doesn't mean they lack a spine. It means your hatred isn't worth their time. Indians don't owe you an apology for being educated, ambitious, hardworking, successful, or simply existing. Being Indian is not a crime. Being successful is not a crime. And your insecurity is not a justification for racism.
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Your goal should be clear. Name and fame don't matter in the end. You might not remember a particular patient whom you healed. They would always remember you – at Nandivaram-Guduvancheri, India
Pick any medical specialty other than your own. Who’s the most famous physician in it? You probably can’t name one. Almost none of us will be known outside our field, and even those who achieve real professional fame are mostly forgotten within a few decades. Fame is a poor reason to devote your life to medicine. The work itself matters more: caring for patients, discovering new knowledge, and teaching the next generation.
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A very sound piece of advice. Think of the training as the first step towards your professional world. The network and continuity matters more than so-called brand value except for Centers of National Importance
#neetpg NEET PG counselling advice: Think about where you want to practise after residency. If you’re moving from North to South India, or vice versa, be honest with yourself about the change in climate, food, language and culture. You’ll live and work there through some of the toughest years of your training. If that adjustment will seriously affect you, factor it into your choice. But there’s another point students often miss: the professional relationships you build during PG. Your co-PGs, seniors, juniors and mentors can become your strongest network when you begin practising. If you train near the place where you eventually want to work, those connections may be much easier to maintain and build on. So, if two colleges offer nearly equivalent training, give serious thought to the one closer to where you plan to settle. Don’t choose by region alone; choose with your future practice in mind
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Think differently so that we reap the benefits of technology – at Nandivaram-Guduvancheri, India
We are partnering with Takumi Motion Controls, whose founder Britto Edwards worked for over a decade in Japan. Our goal is to revive the idea of the rural workshop "Pattarai" so we can help make quality goods locally, at an affordable price point, using sophisticated technology. We want to reimagine technology driven manufacturing in our small to mid-sized industry, with a primary focus on setting up rural supply chains.
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Scary but thought provoking – at Nandivaram-Guduvancheri, India
Dr. Pratosh at IISc Bengaluru tells his students that rapid advances in AI are commoditizing intellectual labour. He raises an unsettling question: if companies stop recruiting on campus in the next 5–10 years—even at India’s top universities—what will the purpose of a university education be ? A must watch video for everyone in tech
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Satwik-Chirag They just won: The China Masters In China In front of a Chinese home crowd. The word Fear? Not in their vocabulary. A salute, Gentlemen 🫡🇮🇳
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Proud to be associated with this initiative – at Dharapur, India
A major milestone for #SickleCellDisease care in Vidarbha. 22 Aug 2026, DG-ICMR Dr Rajiv Bahl inaugurated the new Comprehensive Care Unit & Prenatal Diagnosis Facility at ICMR-CRMCH Chandrapur, strengthening integrated SCD care, Bharat CARES & the National SCD Elimination Mission
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Using maintenance therapy for a prolonged period because of a perception of preventing relapse may not always be true. Thanks @myelomaMD and your team for this study. – at Devanahalli, India
Just out!! In @NEJM - Our randomized trial in myeloma (ENDURANCE trial) shows limited duration of lenalidomide maintenance is just as good as indefinite therapy, with less side effects!!! @eaonc @theNCI Implications are HUGE. This is a drug we spends billions on each year: -Less side effects -Less second cancers -Similar overall survival -Less cost @myelomaMD @Myeloma_Doc @SagarLonialMD National NCI funded trial led by @eaonc and joined by @ALLIANCE_org & @SWOG nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NE…
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Most heartening , no doubt. The biggest question is will we be able to retain them and help them achieve their full potential? Can @DAEIndia do something in this regard? – at Kaveripakkam, India
I taught JEE physics for years. That paper breaks strong kids in three hours. This exam is five hours of theory and five hours of lab work, and these five did close to perfect scores on it. Let me tell you what actually happened. The International Physics Olympiad is the world championship of school physics. It was the 56th edition. Held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from July 5 to 12. 381 students. More than 85 countries. Every one of them the best physics student their country could find. India sent five kids. All five came back with gold. Their names are Kanishk Jain from Pune. Riddhesh Anant Bendale from Indore. Rishit Garg from Dwarka in Delhi. Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai. Svarit Joshi from Ahmedabad. We know a hundred cricketers by their nickname and not one of these boys. :) That clean sweep put India at joint World Number One. Tied with China, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Taiwan. Those are countries that pour serious money and national pride into science education. We are standing level with them. Now here is what the exam actually was. Two papers. Each five hours long. The theory paper had three problems. One on the thermodynamics of paramagnetic cooling. One on the photoionisation of ozone. One on the dynamics of electron positron pairs. The experimental paper was another five hours in a lab, working through heat transfer and thermodynamic processes in fluids. That means you get given equipment you have never seen, and you have to design your own experiment, take your own readings, handle the errors, and reach a real answer. Not multiple choice. No shortcuts. No pattern recognition. You either understand physics or you sit there for five hours. HBCSE says the Indian students were near perfect on theory and excellent on the practical too. Now, this was India's 27th appearance at the IPhO. Across all those years, about 44 percent of Indian students have won gold, 41 percent silver, 10 percent bronze. In the last ten years, every single Indian student has come home with a medal. 62 percent gold, 38 percent silver. Not one kid has gone and come back empty handed in a decade. Five golds in one year has happened only twice. This year, and in 2018. So who built this. The programme is run by HBCSE, the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. It sits under TIFR, which sits under the Department of Atomic Energy. They run the whole funnel. A national exam, then a national olympiad, then a brutal selection and training camp, and out of everyone in the country, five kids get on a plane. The team was led by Professor Anwesh Mazumdar of HBCSE-TIFR and Dr Leena Joshi from St Xavier's College, Mumbai. The scientific observers were Professor Ananda Dasgupta from IISER Kolkata and Nisha Kelkar from Gogate-Joglekar College in Ratnagiri. Yes. Ratnagiri. A college in a small coastal town in Maharashtra. This is public education doing something the private coaching industry could never do on its own. The coaching industry is very good at one thing. Teaching you to solve a known problem fast. That is what JEE and NEET reward, and I say that with love because I was part of that world. But an olympiad paper does not have a known type. There is no shortcut chapter. There is no formula sheet that saves you. You have to sit with a problem you have never seen and think. That is a completely different muscle. And a government funded centre has been quietly building it in Indian teenagers for 27 years. So yes, be proud. Loudly. HBCSE also shared that around 64 percent of India's olympiad medallists go on to do a PhD. But only about 32 percent of medallists end up settling in India. I do not say that to spoil the moment. These kids owe the country nothing. They earned every option they have. But it should tell us something. We are excellent at finding this talent. We are excellent at training it. We are still not great at giving it somewhere worth staying. Congratulations Kanishk, Riddhesh, Rishit, Shresth and Svarit. This is one of the best things an Indian did this year and most of the country will never hear about it.
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Need more such efforts. Let us join hands to validate our own efforts which don't rely on a black box #DOCTORSAI – at Kattankulathur, India
New in #Clinical_lymphoma_Myeloma_Leukemia_journal : Validation of an open-source AI workflow (QuPath v0.6) for plasma cell quantification on CD138 IHC — the first such validation from India, using an Indian-made whole-slide scanner (OptraScan OS-Ultra). A significant work from the Department of Pathology, AFMC. ✅ ICC 0.995 vs manual reference count ✅ 100% sensitivity at all IMWG thresholds (≥10%, ≥30%, ≥60%) ✅ Narrow Bland-Altman limits (-3.0 to +7.8 pp), no proportional bias ✅ Outperformed overview estimation by hematopathologists Open-source + locally manufactured scanner = a resource-appropriate digital pathology tool for Indian & South Asian hematopathology labs. 📄 doi.org/10.1016/j.clml.2026.… #MultipleMyeloma #DigitalPathology #QuPath #Hematopathology #PlasmaCellNeoplasms #AIinMedicine #MedTwitter
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Will enjoy this learning – at Uran, India
CMC Ludhiana – Dialectic Masterclass in Laboratory Haematology 2026 – Register Now! 📅 Dates: 10–11 July 2026 📍 Venue: Guy N. Constable Auditorium, CMC Ludhiana 🔗 Register here: bmtcmcludhiana.in/dialectic
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Too good. Proud of Srabani, Sudeshna, Sneha and Tamanna – at Kattankulathur, India
Winning against the Chinese. In China. At the Asian Relay Championships. Srabani, Sudeshna, Sneha & Tamanna in the 4x100 relay. Power. Speed. Grace. Commitment. But above all, teamwork. This clip has it all. I’m watching it on loop. More of this please. 🇮🇳
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Need smart medical students – at Sholinganallur, India
Hi guys, looking for collaborating with medical students for benchmarking one of the frontier medical AI algorithms. We are looking for the smartest peeps, who can challenge the best AI models out there. If this is something which interests you, please share in comments! We will reach out by the month end!🙌
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Couldn't agree more. Don't try to usurp humanity in the name of "innovation". Let us try to find solutions to problems that really exist – at Kolkata, India
5 years from now or 50 years from now patients still want the same: Competent and empathetic physicians who are accessible when the need arises, and affordable care. We cannot wrap stuff with the word “innovation” when the changes in healthcare policies and priorities are reducing the development of clinical excellence, placing barriers to access, increasing cost of care, and accelerating burnout of experienced clinicians.
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5 years from now or 50 years from now patients still want the same: Competent and empathetic physicians who are accessible when the need arises, and affordable care. We cannot wrap stuff with the word “innovation” when the changes in healthcare policies and priorities are reducing the development of clinical excellence, placing barriers to access, increasing cost of care, and accelerating burnout of experienced clinicians.
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📢 Save the Dates: ISHG2027 ICMR-NIRBID is pleased to host the 51st Annual Meeting of the Indian Society of Human Genetics. 🗓️ 2-4 February 2027; 📍Mumbai. Stay tuned for updates on registrations and abstract submissions. #ICMRNIRBID #ISHG #HumanGenetics #Genomics
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Has the @CDSCO_INDIA_INF conveniently forgotten that there are #hematologists who are specially trained to treat #bloodcancers ? This order has surprised me as I was a member of the Subject Expert Committee of CDSCO on #HematologyOncology for more than 5 years. If CDSCO feels hematooncologists are not competent to conduct #clinicaltrials on patients with blood cancers then should we stop treating these patients ? @NMC_IND @MoHFW_INDIA @DrPMPGI @RahulDoc2 @drtulikahemat
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