Rya writes.....

 In the casualty or Emergency Medicine Department, a person may be produced by police with a requisition or memo from a police officer not below the rank of sub inspector of police or with a requisition from magistrate to examine and certify for drunkenness. Drunkenness certificate is written in a serially numbered register in duplicate , original being handed over to the police and duplicate retained in record for future reference. For persons brought for drunkenness certificate AR or MLR entry need not be made if there are no injuries and no history of trauma.  As in any case the person brought for drunkenness certificate need to be registered in casualty OP register with date, time, name, age, sex and brought by whom. In the Drunkenness certificate write legibly with out any overwriting and corrections. 1. Name of doctor examining the person 2. Hospital name 3. Person name, age, sex and address 4. Sent with memo number or requisition no.and details 5. From whom 6. Accompani...

 A lady to be admired for teaching us life lessons! The real success in one's life is not in reaching heights in profession, gaining name and fame in society but in leading a successful family life, standing with spouse in tough times and rearing children to stand on their own earning and getting them into hands of a life partner at right time and leaving behind traces of fondful memories in everyone known. No doubt mommammai has led a very successful life, though her life since childhood had  thorns and obstacles, her perseverance and courage taught her the art of sensing the smell of roses amidst the thorns. May be she has genetically instilled into us her managerial characteristics and many more good qualities making all of us to be with head up in this competitive world!! Gifted are our kids having been with her blessed presence!!!

  A person may be brought to hospital casualty or Emergency Medicine Department by police personnel before remand by a magistrate, or after remand before admission into jail with a proforma of physical screening of remand prisoner.  Before remand a person brought by police personnel should be examined only with a requisition by the investigating officer or the magistrate ( if requested by the person to be remanded). This is as per section 53 CrPC and section 54 CrPC respectively. Section 53 in The Code Of Criminal Procedure, 1973 53. Examination of accused by medical practitioner at the request of police officer. (1) When a person is arrested on a charge of committing an offence of such a nature and alleged to have been committed under such circumstances that there are reasonable grounds for believing that an examination of his person will afford evidence as to the commission of an offence, it shall be lawful for a registered medical practitioner, acting at the request of a po...

 I thought of posting this on the day of Varun's birthday but unfortunately I couldn't do it.  Theni brothers, varun and saran, both of them are still mocked especially by VK and both would agree that it's all for fun and not intentional to taunt them!  I could remember many events around varun but hardly a few with regards to saran! I don't know how much varun would remember. Once when you came to Tiruchendur you loved eating refrigerated water melons. As the fridge at our home was at fault, you went to our neighbour and asked to keep your share in their fridge and said that you would come back and get it after they are chilled! Also you loved wearing perippa's wrist watch, so we got a white with purple electronic watch from Bangalore! At Rathinam mama house, you call him "Mill mama" and argue with him that Theni is bigger and better than Madurai! We loved enjoying your justifications and paybacks.  Also once when Mohandas chithappa took all of us to exhi...

Solar eclipse Dec 26 2019  Today had an opportunity to witness a part of annular solar eclipse. As it was around 9:00 am the sky was growing dark just like in dusk. I didn't have polarized sunglasses but had chance to see with X ray films but yesterday video cautioned me not to do so.. But out of curiosity, as i was walking towards my superior's office ( where i made a purpose visit to go out in sun ), i looked into a puddle of water stagnant on the floor to see sun's reflection in it. Wow! Lifetime feast! Sun in the shape of a crescent!!But the same fear made me to take off my eyes from it. Then i went and took a out patient slip used in dot matrix printer with holes on sides and when I made the sun shadow to fall through the holes on sides another spectacular site, an array of semilunar sun!! A patient who passed by me was also able to appreciate ! If i remember well i think we had an experience some years back on a Diwali day, when appa tried to show me and Senthil with ...

 Diwali is a special festival for most of us since childhood. As we get new calendars every year the first thing we used to do is checking when is Diwali and start counting days for Diwali. That too after Pooja holidays we would be excited as the final countdown starts! Most of our Diwali purchases would have been over during Pooja holidays. We used to go to Madurai by bus the day before the eve of diwali. As bus enters Madurai  the aura of diwali enthrals us! The newly mushroomed shops for dresses and crackers fascinate us. As we enter the Ayyamma home our diwali feast (a chick) welcomes us pecking up its last feast😋. The aroma of home made murukku and athirasam stimulate our taste buds and fills our stomach as and when we pass by the containers with Diwali snacks. The  fireworks and gift boxes from perimma would be equally divided amongst us! The next day morning we await the arrival of Sujit and sahana  looking at the clock fiftieth time in half an hour. On the D...

 This is from my diary in MAY 2020, publishing after two years!!If you can't go outside, go inside! Let's disconnect to re -connect with ourselves! This has become the fact of life during this period of nation wide lockdown to protect ourselves and to break the chain of spread of COVID 19 Virus. We, the doctors, after our duty hours are supposed to isolate ourselves to prevent the spread of virus. After going through various medical literatures, articles and updates on COVID 19 and constant pouring of COVID timeline in News channels and variety of rumours and memes regarding COVID in social media, my mind got fed up and when i went deep into my mind to divert it, i thought of reading PONNIYIN SELVAN by Kalki. This was in my mind for a quite long time and I wanted to complete reading it before the release of the movie by Maniratnam! So i downloaded it , it had around 297 chapters! So, i fixed a target of 2 to 5 chapters per day depending on my duty schedule, so that i can comple...