EDITORIAL

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Group Medical Director, Kauvery Hospitals, India

Dear colleagues,

Vanakkam!

The KAUVERIAN, whether during pandemic or pandemonium, appears on time! I thank the authors and our production team.

It shall be with you on or before 01 May 2021!

Thought-provoking articles appear in the KAUVERIAN, Vol 1, Issue 6.

Dr. Abhirami makes a point; “Hypertension is a renal disease; kidney disease is both a cause and effect of hypertension whereas the cardiovascular system is predominantly not a cause of hypertension but affected by hypertension”.

Drs. Dominic and Suresh Chelliah remind us that complex clinical diagnoses do not come in a neat and convenient package – “Present scenario differs from the previous year in the way patients present to us – having symptoms and signs of familiar disease processes but, confounded by the presence of acute or past COVID-19 infection”.

Drs. Aslesha and Sanjana present a well-worked up case of acute aortic dissection secondary to a penetrating aortic ulcer in the ascending aorta.

Dr. Joseph Theodore makes his debut with “Pacemaker in children–big shoes to fill for small foot!”

Dr. Nagaraj presents you with an image of an age-old diagnostic challenge the Pancreas comes up with, time and again!

A reviewed author becomes reviewing author!

Dr. Vasanthi Vidyasagar kindly reviews for us the tough to read tome the “Eight roles of the medical teacher!”

Ms. Shanthi and Ms. Jakkuline, nursing leaders at Kauvery Chennai, together bowl the first ball in ‘Nursing Management 2021′ with “Reducing the stock items – Need to look at the whole picture”.

Our “patient story” describes a double whammy that struck a young man, sorted out efficiently at a Kauvery Hospital.

This is the kind of presentation that our DMOs and PG residents can write a brilliant case report about.

I request our HODs and faculty of our DNB, MRCEM and MEM programs to persuade their residents to write.

Communication skills are never congenital, they have to be assiduously cultivated/acquired.

Right there on the ward rounds at Chennai, when I heard this story from the patient, I made a request to a young doctor; I never heard again from that doctor! A year and a half have passed.

Patients are our best teachers.

Kaanthal’ Manikandan” s brand new poem asks you ” Are we as significant as we think ourselves to be?” That comes from a 14 years young poet! Do we have an answer for her?!

On that humbling note, we shall launch our Vol 1, issue 6 on 01 May!

Kindly remember to write for the KAUVERIAN! Be a Kauverian author!

Best regards!

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

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