Well sometimes the best perspectives in lives come to you at unusual situations. I was down with fever last couple of days and as I lay there my mind full of medicines, anguish at falling ill for the nth time, and anti-biotics frying my neural pathways a strange thought came to me. How much of my brain am I using at this moment?
India needs a new healthcare model. Now this model has to be based on preventive care and on detecting and treating conditions way before they occur. The challenge in India…
Most people use after shave lotions after shaving. But those in earlier generation did not have aftershave. I remember my grand father applying a translucent block to his skin after a…
Recently my views on a new healthcare model for India were published in the consultant review magazine’s July 2016 edition which has a focus in the state of healthcare in India. Some of the highlights of the article are encapsulated below.
Some days ago Dr Vikram Venkateswaran, the founder of healthcare in India, had developed an allergy in his eyes, which made him extremely sensitive to bright light. This made it difficult for him to work on the computers as the glare of the display caused tremendous discomfort to him. He reached out to many friends, colleagues and even so called “IT experts” for a solution, but to his dismay he did not find any. Eventually, he succumbed to the situation and decided to wear shades to protect him from the glare. While Dr Vikram’ s shades did make a very impressive style statement, what baffled me was the fact that nobody directed him to a very basic but an extremely useful feature that I have been using for over a decade and is a part of all computers shipped with Windows operating system. So, when Dr Vikram reluctantly try the “high contrast” option on his computer on my request, he was pleasantly surprised. The feature helped to substantially reduce the glare on the computer screen and provided him the much needed relief.