Lessons Learnt from The Translumbar Aortogram Paid Members Public
Any image guided biopsy can cause two major complications. The first is bleeding, which can happen from within a vascular organ (liver, spleen, kidney) or when you injure or traverse a vessel (lung, liver, abdomen, head & neck, mediastinum). The second is a pneumothorax. Many radiologists balk at the idea
Crosstalk Paid Members Public
A message popped up on Rahul’s Slack telling him that Samir, a patient wanted to speak with him. Samir had recently undergone an MRI of the lumbar spine, which Rahul, a radiologist, had reported. Samir had a left posterolateral intervertebral disc hernia, a slipped disc that was pressing on
Above King's Circle Paid Members Public
Background: This write-up is an amalgamation of two pieces, the first published in October 2005 (How Green in My Matunga) and the second in September 2006 (Aamchi Mumbai), before and after I had acquired a copy of Jehangir Sorabjee’s book, “Above Bombay”, which, according to me, is a book
1.4 - What I Write About, When I Write About Running (with Due Respect to Mr. Murakami) Paid Members Public
Background: This was the piece that convinced Meenal to give me my own column. After Writer’s Bloc died a natural death, essentially due to lack of interest and contributors, I didn’t have an outlet for my writing. People who knew me would keep coming up to me all
10.8 - No-Horn "Athai" Paid Members Public
Background: This came out in December 2007, immediately after I tried this out as an experiment. To Subscribe Matunga is famous for its “athais”, which are 8-day fasts that Jains undertake during “pajosan”, a festival of penance, which usually comes around Aug-Sept. A Jain fast means no food at all,
A Year in Retrospect Paid Members Public
This November issue has been very exciting to publish. This particular issue marks the end of our first year. We are proud that this fourth issue of 2007 has been available online from 31 October, and will have reached most radiologists in print form, in the month of November itself;
3. The Times…They are a Changing Paid Members Public
An editorial from Aug 2007 about plagiarism and changing times
2. Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V: Writing Papers Can’t Get Any Easier! Paid Members Public
Background: This was the 2nd IJRI editorial written in June 2007. Plagiarism was a huge issue at the time and even now, plagues journals all the time. ChatGPT and other LLMs have likely worsened the problem. In this editorial, I was actually going to discuss the methodology related to article
