Oct 15, 2025: An Anesthesiologist saves a limb – thanks to search skills!

We recently got this story from - an anesthesiologist Dr Jitendra Bapat, who had not only attended our workshop but also organized one of ours at a preconference event last year. He is a major supporter of our workshops! He shared a case, where he truly felt the impact of our teaching. We are delighted to share this with our donors and supporters. Hello from Dr Bapat. I must share this story with you. While I was on an emergency duty, a patient’s arm turned blue after surgery. All his test readings appeared normal. A Doppler showed a venous clot,…
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Jul 21, 2025: Another workshop and different Nostalgia!

Jul 21, 2025: Another workshop and different Nostalgia!

On the 15th of July, I was invited to give a talk at the SNDT Women's University. The occasion was a one day workshop for faculty from different departments - (mainly Home Science). And it was on Writing and publishing. I had to speak on the topic "Literature Review" - which is an important part of any research paper. I divided my talk into two areas - Literature Searching and the Literature Review components. I stressed - that it would be easier for them to learn the latter anywhere, but the former - is barely taught. And when I finished…
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Jun 30, 2025: A Workshop and some Nostalgia!

Jun 30, 2025: A Workshop and some Nostalgia!

End of June, I was invited to deliver a lecture on "Selection of studies" for doing a systematic review. This was at a three day workshop on systematic reviews at ACTREC - which is a centre of the well known Tata Memorial Hospital in my city. A friend of mine - Satish is the librarian there and he was delivering the lecture on the topic I normally take - which is - Literature searching. I enjoyed this change. More so because about ten years ago I had actually done the screening of studies for a major review. At that time…
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