Harpreet Bhagrath's blog

So the Chinese are devising a nationwide organ-donation system, I hear. This they are doing to put the practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners to rest.

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In an incident that happened not too long ago in America, this sicko entered a single mother's apartment, raped her violently a number of times through the night, cut her open while he was raping her because he liked it that way, killed her by dawn and left. The worst part was that her nearly 2-year-old baby was crying on the same bed the whole night. When police got to the scene two days later the baby had just died of hunger and crying.

We’re not just saying it. We mean it. We hope that in 2009, all of you are healthier than ever and humanity is free of sickness and diseases. That, of course, sounds like wishful thinking in contemporary times what with all the diabetes and obesities, and cancers and TBs busy doing their thing like never before. But then, there’s always Santa nearby this time of the year, astride his sleigh firing on all eight cylinders.

An attractive or a beautiful person experiences life in a different way than an ugly or obese person does. It’s the same as the divide between life experiences and the personalities of the rich man and poor man. Ugly as it may sound, it is one of the truths of our society.

Doctors are routinely accused of being callous towards their patients’ suffering; of treating them like projects to complete. Here’s my perspective, for what it’s worth.

I have always maintained that after a certain while of being in a profession, barring a few exceptions, you become your profession. A construction worker will behave like a construction worker. Doctors are no exception and you can pretty much tell a doctor apart from say, a lawyer or a journalist.

A recent British study has suggested that lavender scent could somewhat offset the jitters that patients get at the dentist’s clinic. Here’s our Managing Editor Harpreet Bhagrath’s take on the news story that inadvertently seems to have touched him where it hurts the most.