Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am [...]
March 25, 2009
Categories: medical diary . Tags: care, condolence letter, death, doctor patient communication, doctor patient relation, life, life and death, patient, physician's responsibility, prayer, scar, sympathy . Author: archana jhawar . Comments: Comments Off
Nose a vital organ for breathing, a symbol of super-ego-is so delicate that it starts flowing like a river in a simple attack of flu and if it is blood that flows out than search for cause is a real task for ENT surgeon.
And as it was not enough it has become popular playground for [...]
February 23, 2009
Categories: aastha my faith, medical diary, personal . Tags: aastha my faith, angel, Christmas, Christmas gift, divine intervention, doctor-patient, faith, father, Foreign body nose, girl child, God-gift, Nose, profession . Author: archana jhawar . Comments: 2 Comments
She was attentive enough to realize that something is wrong with her daughter. Her maternal instinct forced her to visit my clinic in spite of being labeled as paranoid by her family.
Mother is usually first to notice that somewhere things are not quite right, even when she never read big books on mile stones or [...]
January 30, 2009
Categories: child-privileges, girl child, hearing loss in children, medical diary . Tags: BERA, e.n.t., girl child, hearing aids, hearing screening, hearing screening in child, hearing-loss, mother, mother's instinct, speech therapy . Author: archana jhawar . Comments: 2 Comments
“I regret that I forgot to hug him”
In pediatric surgery if one can bear painful screaming of kids piercing ear drum then ward is like a fairy land with all soft fragile newborns (we called them “Tuggu” meaning very small in our medical college language). You feel there real beauty when you touch them, a feel [...]
December 23, 2008
Categories: medical diary, personal . Tags: congenital defects, eskimo dressing, Hope for hydrochephalus, Hydrochephalus, kids, medical diary, paediatric surgery ward, regret, tuggu, V-P shunt . Author: archana jhawar . Comments: Comments Off
Yesterday I had been to medical college clinical skills lab waiting for head of the department.
As I was standing there I heard a sweet voice -”are you waiting for someone?” I turned my head and saw a middle aged lady with questioning eyes. “Yes, I am waiting for… madam” I responded reflexly. ”Are you from this [...]
August 29, 2008
Categories: medical diary . Tags: health, Mental imbalance, personal, we care . Author: archana jhawar . Comments: Comments Off
Yesterday when I went to KEM medical college, saw hospital’s “hands on training lab-Clinical skills and research laboratory” to train doctors of newer techniques of surgery…I felt good. I was elated whole day to see such a lab and innumerable dead bodies to work on…
Suddenly night time I felt numb, a thought just clicked in [...]
August 29, 2008
Categories: medical diary . Tags: care, medical college, personal . Author: archana jhawar . Comments: Comments Off
Those deep penetrating eyes still follow my soul, those wonderful moments still reside in my heart… asking who cares for us?
Before joining my M.S. in E.N.T. , I worked for Red Cross hospital at a small place, “Dhar” of Madhyapradesh. I used to visit “home for mentally disabled kids” adopted by Red Cross for [...]
March 27, 2008
Categories: child-privileges, medical diary . Tags: CRPD, disabled kids, eyes, health, home for mentally disabled kids, kids, life, mental disability, moments, personal, red Cross hospital, rights of children, sympathy, vision, we care . Author: archana jhawar . Comments: Comments Off