Dr Sreejith Parameswaran Friday, 23rd August 2019, 6:55pm. Another day, another death. I sometimes feel the life of a Nephrologist can be described as an unending journey of taking care of patients who are mostly miserable, punctuated frequently with deaths of patients under their care. I was away from work…

Sreejith Parameswaran The emotional backlash from being empathetic at work I have repeatedly tried to ignore it or deny it, but it seems the ‘tragedies’ patients with kidney failure face in their lives have started catching up with me, of late. Nephrologists, like physicians in some other medical fields, are…

Movie review – Warning : Spoilers inside! I happened to watch the Tamil movie ‘96’ last week, upon the insistence of my wife. I can say that it was one of the most memorable movies I watched in recent times (well, I don’t watch movies often….) The movie does have…

I happened to watch the Malayalam movie ‘Dasaratham (ദശരഥം)’ today (23rd Sept 2018), 29 years after its release. I was three decades late watching such an outstanding movie, but I am happy that I finally got to know about it and watched it. A short google search revealed that the…

28th March 2018 Sreejith Parameswaran It was that age in ones life when the world appeared more colorful than it was, but my view on many things in life had only two shades — black and white. Everything was either good or bad, right or wrong; with no shades in…

I turned my eyes away from her tearful face. I was seeing her children for past eight years and it was strangely unsettling to watch her crying. This was about six months back, when she came to meet me at my office in the hospital. She was otherwise calm and…

It was the 3rd time call was coming from the same number in the past half an hour. I was on vacation and picking up calls from unfamiliar numbers was not going to be helping my plans for the day. …

16th March 2014 Her face looked familiar. I slowed my car and took another look — yes, it was she. It was a Saturday evening and I was on Kamaraj salai in Puducherry, looking for a shop where they repaired kitchen utensils. The blades of one of the bowls of…

— — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — 01 “Aur jaldi nahi chala sakte ho, Bhaiyya? (Can’t you drive any faster?)” I asked again, anxiously. The elderly Sardarji driving the auto-rickshaw continued to…