Scepticemia Blog
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Musings of a Skeptic Oslerphile. I am Pranab - a recently graduated physician, who believes that the first step to knowledge begins with the cultivation of skepticism. In this blog, I talk about my brush with affairs that leave me skeptic. Or asking for more.
Scepticemia Blog
8M ago
This was such an interesting and intriguing read, that I consumed the 274-pager in a day and a bit – which, in my current brain foggy state, I am quite proud of! This is a semi-autobiographical narrative which was originally written in French by Montrealer Marc Vachon and François Bugigno. The English translation was done ..read more
Scepticemia Blog
9M ago
“Here in prison rage contained in my breast I patiently wait for the clouds to gather blown by the wind of history. No one can stop the rain” – from “‘Here in Prison” by Agostinho Neto, first President of Angola (1975-1979), PIDE Prison, Luanda, July 1960 I recently found myself with some time on my ..read more
Scepticemia Blog
1y ago
A quick summary of the policy steps taken by various countries to contain or mitigate the transmission of COVID-19 ..read more
Scepticemia Blog
1y ago
Ten years ago, to this day, much to the consternation and befuddlement of some of my friends and well-wishers, I chose to pursue my MD training in Preventive and Social Medicine, ahead of more conventional career pathways in surgery, anesthesia, or other clinical subjects. Since then, I have wondered many times, what the counterfactual would ..read more
Scepticemia Blog
1y ago
Each year, around the time of AIPG counseling, I get a fair number of emails asking about PSM as a career option. These question are mostly from students who have not really considered PSM as a career, and hence, do not have the information or evidence needed to take an informed call. I usually try my ..read more
Scepticemia Blog
1y ago
Each year, around the time of AIPG counseling, I get a fair number of emails asking about PSM as a career option. These question are mostly from students who have not really considered PSM as a career, and hence, do not have the information or evidence needed to take an informed call. I usually try my ..read more
Scepticemia Blog
1y ago
Each year, around the time of AIPG counseling, I get a fair number of emails asking about PSM as a career option. These question are mostly from students who have not really considered PSM as a career option, and hence, do not have the information or evidence needed to take an informed call. I usually try ..read more
Convalescent Plasma in COVID-19: The Dutch ConCOVID Randomized Controlled Trial Halted for Re-design
Scepticemia Blog
1y ago
The Dutch CONCOVID Trial intended to look at the effect of convalescent plasma therapy on mortality in COVID-19 patients. It has recently been halted after recruiting only about a fifth of its calculated sample size after some very unexpected results were observed. These are my quick thoughts on the matter ..read more
Scepticemia Blog
1y ago
COVID-19 has had a slow growth in various African countries. I look at the reported numbers and it seems that although the epidemiological proportions are in agreement with the global numbers, the low rate of testing is perhaps contributing to the lower number of reported cases ..read more
Scepticemia Blog
1y ago
India enters a small group of nations which have tested over 1 million samples for COVID-19. Some reflections on the scale of the success and what it entails ..read more