Rutvik Patel

What a contrast in this world! As some develop AI… …and some still develop X-rays in darkrooms. #Radiology #Radres

Both of these are USG images of the same patient: 1) Liver cirrhosis 2) Fibroglandular tissue in a case of gynecomastia What is the mechanism of the gynecomastia here?

I recently had dinner with Dr Devi Shetty, the founder of Narayana Hospitals. For those who don't know him, he's the guy who figured out how to do open heart surgery for a few hundred dollars when the same procedure costs a bomb in the US. Narayana has 18,000 beds across India, and if you ask most middle-class people in Bangalore about it, they'll speak highly of it. There was one thing I kept thinking about over and over again after meeting him. Narayana's market cap is around ₹38,000 crore. Now compare that to pretty much any half-decent financial services business in India, and it'll be valued more than that, including Zerodha. A brokerage, worth more than a hospital chain, that has probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives. I get the arguments. If you're a fund manager/analyst, you can immediately explain it away using margins, capex, asset-light vs asset-heavy, and all that, and I'm not saying the market is wrong. But it's still a strange world we've built, where the businesses closest to money get valued the highest, and the ones doing the hard and essential things get priced like boring utilities. A hospital carries physical infrastructure, enormous liability, thin margins and the actual weight of keeping people alive. And somehow that's worth less than a platform for buying and selling stocks. I don't have a clean take on this. All of this just felt odd. Ps: Nothing here is investment advice. For that, go to @zerodhavarsity

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. ~ Nietzsche

कुछ तो तेरे मौसम ही मुझे रास कम आए और कुछ मेरी मिट्टी में बग़ावत भी बहुत थी ~ परवीन शाकिर

Maybe the dragon really does give life meaning. Or maybe we just couldn’t imagine killing it. The engineers are in their workshops. What are we waiting for? ~ Adapted from : Nick Bostrom’s “Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant” (n/n)

“The dragon is aging.” It kills 150,000 people today. Tomorrow. Every day you’re reading this. We built religions around it. Philosophies. Coping mechanisms so elegant we started calling them wisdom. (9/n)

Once upon a time, a dragon lived near a kingdom. Every single day, it demanded lives. The kingdom had two choices: fight it, or adapt to it. They chose to adapt. And that decision changed everything. 🧵 (1/n)

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering. - Steve Jobs

The rules of Radiology!

A very soothing and a quiet conversation about what truly matters in this unpredictable life.