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It is important to develop good habits.

“Habits are either the best of servants or the worst of masters” wrote Emmons. This saying rightfully tells that there are good as well as bad habits.
Habits are routines of behaviour that are repeated regularly and often subconsciously. With each repetition there is an increased automaticity in the behaviour. Scientifically, it takes about three weeks to establish or break a habit.

Why and when should we develop good habits? ...

They say "when everything is going fine, nothing goes wrong". Similarly, when we face ‘failure’ in life, everything seems to be going wrong. The same principle applies to our days of medical studies too (as it would to many other situations).

However, it is a reality that many students who ‘fail’ in medical course and eventually graduate do ‘well’ in their careers than many others who graduate without any failures during the course. This seems to be an anomaly at the face ...

Tags: challenge, failure, success

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When I was a medical student, the only PDA that I knew was Patent Ductus Arteriosus. Thank God, I didn’t have it. Now I know another PDA and thank God, I have it.

I am talking about Personal Digital Assistants, also called handheld computers or palmtops.

It’s a growing trend. More and more clinicians are using this gadget for accessing information at the point of care. While some well-organized hospitals have even daily patient data available ...

Updated February 28th, 2010 at 08:20 PM by Shashikiran

Tags: diabetes, eag, glucose, handheld, hbaic, palmtop, pda

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‎ Diabetes , ‎ Medicine , ‎ Technology

Last week I saw a middle-aged man who complained of pain over the right anterior chest. He had done some heavy exertion a few days earlier (extreme Yoga). While examining the painful area of chest, I noticed a feeling of something under the skin. On more careful palpation, it was a vertical cord-like swelling, just under the skin. On making the patient raise his right arm above the head, the swelling became visible too. Check the photograph on the right. You can see a longitudinal ...

Updated February 7th, 2010 at 04:03 PM by Shashikiran

Tags: cord, mondor's, phlebitis, swelling, yoga

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I am an owl. I feel most active and creative at night. And my ‘low’ times are early in the morning and evening. But I was always reticent about this because ‘ideally’ a person is ’supposed’ to feel better early in the morning. I was feeling imperfect.

If you are also in the same boat, here is some good news.

Creativity at Night

A survey done on 1,426 adults has found that the most creative time is at 10.04 PM, and the lowest levels ...

Tags: day, inspiration, siesta, time

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