Editorial

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Group Medical Director, Kauvery Hospitals, India

Dear readers of the Kauverian,

Abraham Lincoln went from a log cabin to the White House.

Dr. Paul Farmer grew up in a mobile home in a trailer park in Florida, and went on to advise five presidents in the White House on global health.

Paul braved congenital hypertension and a bad back to re-write the narrative and create good outcomes for HIV/AIDs and Tb.

A restless soul, tireless in ensuring the best care for the poor of the world, died during the only time he ever rested, in sleep.

I miss Paul, my eulogy makes a humble effort to bring his best work alive for you.

Vit D saw its heyday during COVID when miraculous benefits were claimed for it, even in severe and critical COVID. It did not stop there, every day a new claim popped up, for therapeutic effects in diverse areas of medicine. We began filing them. Who else can be a better person to collate and comment on Vit D than the Clinical Pharmacist.? Vinoth, new to Kauvery, has bravely risen to the challenge

Dr. Joseph has helped us with breaking news! Leadless Pacemaker, a leader in miniature technology, and innovation in precision electrophysiology emerged as a great source of comfort and security to a patient who was intolerant to a conventional pacemaker with an external power source.

Dr. Balaji and colleague nephrologists from Chennai vividly describe a renal transplant that went even beyond ABO incompatibility and shall surprise us non- nephrologists with even more nuances.

Dr. Anbuchezhian who stunned us with his intrepid foray into Mucor when it was at its worst at Hosur writes for us on Basal Cell Adenoma of Parotid. Did it turn malignant? Wait to read!

Gunstock deformity in a 12-year-old child! What could it be? Dr. Senthilrajan from Salem writes on its correction.

Drs. Vasanthi Vidyasagaran and Prof. CSK Reddy always carry us to another world of precision and sophistication each time.

At last, we post a diagnostic video. Her patient has a strong and noble face that could not be masked because Dr. Aslesha wished to demonstrate the dramatic deficits from a selective 3rd nerve palsy from a vascular catastrophe in the midbrain, the house of the nucleus of the Oculomotor nerve.

What is my special recommendation for you in my Journal Scan? It is (10). Luc Montagnier, Nobel-Winning Virologist Who Discovered HIV, Dies at 89. The French scientists can be both emotional and controversial. In recent times, Dr. Raoult Didier(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Raoult) jumped into a similar controversy, feet first, over HCQ in Covid.

And what do we recommend you to read from the world press? Schattner A. My four ages of diagnosis. QJM: An International Journal of Medicine 2022;115(1):63-4. is a delightful read for all mature physicians

Jayalakshmi brings the curtain down on the issue with a heart-warming poem of thanks from a patient to her nurse:

Do read, and write for the KAUVERIAN

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

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