Dr. Siddharth Damle

Knya med is going All out on marketing their new line of stethoscopes- claiming theirs have sharper acoustics,better clarity and more comfort What they dont realise is that medicos don't buy Littman for its superior acoustics They buy it for Brand Value and the Glory that comes from having a Littman wrapped around your neck 🌟

‘Arranged marriage’ is largely dead in the urban upper middle class strata. Kids grew on movies and TV, want to find love, for whatever reason — dont. Then parents set them up. Kids forcefully superimpose a romancemax hollywood love-style relationship frame on what is otherwise a contractual relationship that hopefully blossoms into love. Proposals, rings, baby/shona from day 1. None of this is felt, its performed. Reality sets in 6-12 months later. Wife will not play 80-90s style bahu who runs around saying ‘mummy ji ko bura na lage’. Modern bahus care 2 shits about saas. Men quickly fall out of fascination with their ‘new toy’- the honeymoon, the wedding, the photos, the sex fades. Family expects joint family behavior, couple has nuclear family ethics. Family set up an arrangement, kids performed a different performance. Resentment builds slowly. Man gets dragged between parents and wife. Wife feels antagonised by in laws. Parents feel mistreated and isolated in old age. It could have been simple if they picked one lane and lived it out. But marriage has become too complicated in modernity— too many concepts, references, moviepilled ideas, reelpilled fantasies, nostalgia coded platitudes compressed into one private relationship space, commented on and critiqued by everyone. If youre getting arranged married, dont force love into it. Let it arrive. It may not, and thats your gamble. But people who get married out of love may end up being wrong, or fall out of love. Thats their gamble. Live by the spirit of your decisions. Not by the aesthetics of someone else’s decision.

Sad news. Prof DB Kadam. Passed away last night. All students at BJMC Pune know him as sharp clinician, dedicated teacher and no-nonsense expert in Nephrology and Medicine. I always attended his rounds and Nephro OPDs during my 6 month Neuro posting. Learnt so many things !

Why quackery is bad: BHMS couple running a "Aesthetic clinic" prescribes 20 days of Azithromycin, 30 days of Doxycycline and 20 days of Cefadroxil to a patient diagnosed as "Painful (??) Acne Vulgaris". And you all worried about antibiotic resistance.