Shisha: A borrowed Nightmare
A few months ago, a young man came to me seeking answers. Kabir* had developed a persistent cough over the past few months. His chest hurt and breathi
A Physician's Diary
A Physician's Diary
The Business of COVID-19
During the height of the AIDS pandemic, I remember one of my professors in medical school telling us about the actual ‘People Living with HIV and AIDS
Rationalizing Our Share of the National Cake
In Psychiatry, there is a concept called ‘Rationalization’. Rationalization is an attempt to logically justify immoral, deviant, or generally unaccept
The devil in our minds
While at boarding school, some twenty-something years ago, there was a particular girl in our dormitory whose stories were very colourful. Throughout
Is it really the change in weather?
Over the past few weeks, I have gotten numerous phone calls, text messages and in-person consultation over a very common symptom—fever. Suddenly every