STRAIGHT FROM THE GUT
Blog
This blog site came out as my project of randomly interviewing my patients and getting their stories. I found that all of these ordinary people have extraordinary stories to tell and for me to listen. Today’s malady often is the end result of a story that happened in the remote past. But most of all, every one has a story to tell if you listen carefully and healing lies in the storytelling and story listening. These stories prove no one is human, but all humans are Super Humans!
The Power Of English: A Pathway For The Youth of Bangladesh
The Power of English: A Pathway to Bangladesh’s Future In 1986, as fresh MBBS graduates and interns from Chittagong Medical College, my classmates and I …
Jun25
Titan Implosion: A World Connected, A Story of Humans
A team of five crew members perished on June 18, 2023 on their voyage to explore the wreckage of Titanic. From the news media I also heard each of them paid 250,000 US dollars to pay for the ...
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Looking For My Mother…. Look No Further..
37 years had passed by, but even today my mother continues to inspire me. When I spent the last days with my mother, I was young, excited and, naïve in my mid 20s when I just got the ...
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Feb12
March is Colon Cancer Prevention Awareness Month
Colon cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths in the world, but the good news is that it can be prevented through a combination of lifestyle changes and early detection. In this post, we will ...
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Jan24
Boro Amma- The Great Mother & Story of Motherhood
Morning of October 1942, Chittagong, British Colonial India Chittagong was a sleepy, largely agrarian town, still languishing in the backwaters of the British East Indian Colony. As the early winter fog was still hesitantly floating in the air, ...
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Aug06
Saying Goodbye to My Best Friend..
Never did I ever know silence, quietness and peacefulness as Abdullah demonstrates in his deathbed could be so painful, ....
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Jul13
Bosnian Genocide in Medical Practice
Yesterday I visited Emete, he was paralyzed, seated in a wheel chair accompanied by his wife who brought him to my office. I have known this man since the early days of my practice: he is a refugee ...
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Jul09
Connecting with Patients, Humans
I was in a phone consult yesterday, a phenomenon that had taken shape in the Covid era. Many of our patients prefer to “visit” us over phone or over FaceTime or Google or some other platforms. She was ...
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