NIRMALA CHANDRASEKAR

Did my medical school in India. Coming from a family of farmers and the first person in the whole village to enter post secondary schooling let alone medical school. My education meant everything to my dad( remembering him on Father’s Day)

Thank you! We learn everyday

ICYMI Saturday, the #SOGC held an Assisted Vaginal Birth Master Class on site in Edmonton! Courses such as these are a great opportunity for practicing Ob-Gyns to improve and refine their skillsets, for more info: sogc.org/en/en/content/…

My wonderful colleagues!!

Omg! So much needed. Thank you for saying this. Please don’t demonize mothers if they have or opt to deliver by section.

This is important “balanced consideration of maternal safety with rapidity of delivery, encouraged process-based approaches, and proposed standardization of terminology regarding delivery urgency”

A call to *centre* values such as anti-oppression, anti-racism and social justice *in the practice of medicine* means supporting MDs to obtain the knowledge and skills necessary to address the shameful chasm in health outcomes for Black and Indigenous peoples... /1

@rosieICM @thetimes The fact that this even got published..

👍 @AndreaSimpsonMD for highlighting recent data on gender equity. Equitable healthcare includes funding ORs 🟰ly for all. @UofT @uoftmedicine @uoftobgyn @UnityHealthTO @SMHObGyn @MichaelChaikof @erinbrennand @WomenOMA @TorontosDoctors @OntariosDoctors ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=2…

@theliverdoc “Speak to my team for a personalized diet plan”🤦‍♀️

This is Dr. Dimple Jangda. She makes us believe that she is an Ayurvedic practitioner. But the fact is that she is not a doctor. She is not even an Ayurvedic practitioner. She has no formal training in real medicine or pseudomedicine of Ayurveda. She was a television producer. Then an investment banker. Then a podcast host. And thereafter, a talk show host. She has a masters degree in business administration. She has a virtual online degree from National American University in (?)management which she claims is "honorary." She has a diploma in Yoga from Yoga Mumbai Institute. She has a virtual and unidentifiable degree in (?) business management from Thames International University, Paris. She has no formal training in any aspect of healthcare. She is a quack of quacks. A top of the line fearmongering "wellness fraud" - a bottom feeder in the ecosystem of healthcare business. She is a female version of Sadhguru. Lots of confidently sounding English words that takes shape of a word salad containing some of the biggest health-related misinformation and disinformation in Indian social media today. See this video for instance. She tells gullible people (who are already fearmongered about modern medicine and have distrust in doctors and medical science) not to opt for gall bladder removal surgery even if it gets complicated with stones disease or inflammation (called acute cholecystitis). A dangerous misinformation that can lead to loss of life. The physiology of gall bladder function and the change in function after gall bladder surgery that she provides is top-class garbage. Complicated gall stone disease require surgery for cure and to prevent further complications. If you remove the gall bladder, you do not develop more diseases like diabetes or obesity. The bile gets stored in the upper part of the small intestine in the absence of gall bladder and keeps helping in digestion. There is no food or diet shortcut that can dissolve gall stones. The story that this lady speaks about - from her own father's experience of using Ayurveda to remove gall stones is complete fabrication. It is an unverifiable, anecdotal bluff. There is no way, gall stones can just disappear in a month. There is only ONE method to diagnose and treat gall stones disease and it is the scientific method based consensus guidelines. See this from the European Association for Study of Liver - Clinical Practice Guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of gallstones. journal-of-hepatology.eu/article/S0168-… It provides all information on 1. Prevention of gall stones 2. Diagnosis of gall bladder stones 3. Medical therapy of gall bladder stones 4. Surgical therapy of gall bladder stones 5. Diagnosis of bile duct stones 6. Endoscopic and surgical therapy of bile duct stones 7. Diagnosis and therapy of stones inside liver 8. Therapy of gall stones during pregnancy Peppermint tea, hibiscus tea, lemon water and such easy sounding kitchen-hacks are not the treatment for gall bladder disease or complicated gall stones. Gall bladder stones that are uncomplicated or incidentally detected do not require treatment. Do not worry about them unnecessarily. Gall stones that get stuck in the neck of the gall bladder or come down into the bile duct, causing bile duct obstruction, bile block and infection requires antibiotic therapy and after an interval, removal of gall bladder. Otherwise it could happen again and the second hit of infection could kill the person. It can also lead to gall stone pancreatitis that can lead to multiple organ failure. No amount of hibiscus tea and lemon water will save you when you are in septic shock due to cholangitis and a ruptured gall bladder, on the ventilator inside an ICU. High cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity and fatty liver are not caused by removal of gall bladder, but are risk factors for development of the stones themselves - that is, metabolic diseases are associated with higher risk of developing gall stone disease and not the other way around. bmcprimcare.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… The lady had gotten it all topsy-turvy - why? Because she has no formal education in medicine and would probably have no clue on which side of the body the liver is. Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in women aged 48-60 years prevented (a correlation) risk of complicated gall stone disease, and subsequent surgery, but is not in anyway same as not doing surgery for complicated gall stone disease. Once complicated, surgery is the best bet to prevent further complications. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… There is no evidence that drinking carrot and beetroot juice helps reduce complicated gall stone disease or dissolves gall stones. This is utter nonsense. You may be wondering why my post is so long and I had to keep going on and on to debunk small points made by Dimple Jangda. It is not so simple. Its because of this: The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini’s Law, states that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it. PS: Please dont share any more of this quack's videos for me to debunk. I am getting too old for this.

@placentadoc I hear you! After 3 years of dodging it, I recently got it also! God, it finished me off. Please take care. Take it slow!

Nice read! I thought it was too quick to recommend this as efficacious! Not questioning the safety though

Complications due to covid -19 was the leading cause of maternal death. As of the higher mortality in colored women.. that continues!!

Hundreds of doctors, nurses and health workers just went to Queen’s Park to tell Doug Ford to reverse his cruel cuts to healthcare for uninsured people that go into effect tomorrow. We cannot play with people’s lives. We need #healthcare4all. #onpoli

I spoke to @KellySkjerven at @torontostar about @Contracepti_ON and advocating for no-cost contraceptives in Ontario! Read all about it - Birth control will soon be free in B.C. Will Ontario follow? thestar.com/news/canada/20… via @torontostar

@DougCam8672 Star indeed! Missing her

All star 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

@DougCam8672 @MeffeFilomena @EliShoreMD @DebRobertsonMD Interesting! Though no difference in primary outcomes,Given there was no evidence of harm and a reduction in need for CR support , worth trying?

@drnimmis @MeffeFilomena @EliShoreMD @DebRobertsonMD #worththinkingabout

@Nishaobgyn I remember that many hospitals had the call rooms taken away during my training which meant sitting in a chair and sleeping. Junior doctors also can have a small kids and may not be sleeping during the days when they have night floats . There was no way of addressing them

I am stunned by the callousness I shouldn’t be but I am abc.net.au/news/2022-12-0…

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@RitikaGoelTO Hardly surprising 😂

Even becoming UK’s PM doesn’t save brown people from having our names butchered. 😂