Editorial

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Group Medical Director, Kauvery Hospitals, India

Dear readers of the Kauverian,

Novelty is the spice of life; so, we begin with a new section, “Letters to the editor!”.

We invite you to post your thoughts on articles published elsewhere on which you have a clear view to express.

Dr. Karpagambal Sairam inaugurates that section.

Right at the onset of COVID MOHFW had listed some drugs as experimental therapy and advised that such drugs be exhibited in a clinical trial setting.

Dr. Muralidhar, Critical Care Consultant at Kauvery ECB, reports on Ulinastatin. A study on Baricitinib and Remdesivir shall follow.

At last Kauvery hopes to migrate out of paper and get set to launch electronic registries.

Heart Failure Registry at Heart City Trichy and Tumor Registry of the Kauvery Tumor Board shall be the first two.

More are in the works.

Dr. Annup Balan publishes a short and crisp review of the subject for everyone’s benefit.

Dr. Chockalingam elegantly cites an example to show that Rheumatoid Arthritiis, that eternal conundrum, can also present as a Monoarticular large joint arthritic presentation.

Dr. Suresh Chelliah and team are both prolific and prodigal in their publication.

“Anemia in Pneumonia” is a title that even rhymes. He and the team invariably flash it first on WhatsApp on Sunday. In Trichy, it has come to be called ‘ Super Sunday!”

Movement disorders are some of the most baffling neurological manifestations, upsetting to a patient and often perplexing to the neurologist. But not to Dr. Bhuvaneswari and Gayathri; they unravel the mystery almost effortlessly.

Medical Statistics has been simplified and made interesting and useful by Dhasaratharaman.

We hope to publish eventually the Kauvery Handbook on Medical Statistics.

Does his article on “Two Way ANOVA” remind you of an Innova?

No case reports can easily match the reports that we have been kindly permitted to serialize, by Drs. Vasanthi Vidyasagaran and Prof CSK Reddy. Do not miss to read them. They would both save lives, and your clinical practice.

In the journal scan, may I request you to read paper 4, from the Lancet, by Rajalakshmi on GGOs?

I wonder why did not that come from Kauvery?

The diagnostic image posted by Dr. Subbiah is both striking and intensely pruritic!

Recommended reading this week is “FUO”, from the NEJM; none of us can afford to miss it.

Jayalakshmi’s poem rounds up the issue with a touching eulogy to her colleagues.

Do write for the KAUVERIAN

Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

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