WOMEN….. THE MOOLAH AND THE GENDER PAY GAP IN HEALTHCARE

The other day I saw a tweet from United Nations about the gap in gender pay parity. “Worldover……women across professions, earn 20 to 30% less than   men.”   It has been a week and I just cannot get the figures out of my system. I googled the figures for pay parity in healthcare and there

Author: Mariam Lakdawala (Registered Dietician) With every 3rd patient walking up to me and asking for a ketogenic diet, I was curious to know if it is really a healthy way to lose weight. I typed ketogenic diet on Google, and was surprised to see so many trial diets, websites offering delivery of ketogenic diet

Surgery is undoubtedly one of the most intriguing branches of medicine. This is probably the only stream where a knife that symbolises the epitome of violence is ironically used for healing. As surgeons we use the instruments meant to kill people, to do the exactly opposite… to save them. More often than not, surgery is

Author: Mariam Lakdawala- (Registered Dietician) Ramadan is believed to be a month of fasting and feasting. It involves being without food and water from sunrise until sunset. The meal consumed before sunrise is called ‘sehri’ or ‘suhoor’ and the meal after sunset is called ‘iftar’. This year the holy month of Ramadan has fallen during

Dr. Aparna Govil Bhasker Bariatric Surgeon, Mumbai “A picture speaks a thousand words”. In February 2016, the cover page of Diabetes Care, one of the best international journals in the field of diabetes, carried a picture of a surgery being performed in the military hospital in the first world war. This was not only the

It is that moment when deep inside, you know that you are fighting a losing battle, And yet you don’t want to give up. It is that moment when you so wish for a miracle to happen, But somewhere you know miracles happen only in fairy tales. It is that moment when you pull together

This morning while preparing for a presentation on “childhood obesity” I happened to read that, “this is the first generation of kids who may not outlive their parents“.  Now, I am a doctor, a bariatric surgeon to be precise, but I am also a mother to a four years old. There is obviously no prize to guess

The other day one of my dear patients asked me a question before getting into a procedure- DOCTOR WHY DO YOU CONSIDER SURGERY AS AN ART? I guess, Because the smell of spirit is sweeter than perfume to me, Because my ot scrubs feel more fashionable to me than any designer clothes, Because the clicking

I got back from work this evening and was sifting through TV channels, hoping to catch up on the important news events of the day. No surprises here, every channel claimed to have “first” broken the news of the Virat – Anushka wedding. They almost made it seem like it was a matter of grave

Author: Miloni Sancheti (RD) Bariatric Nutritionist and Diabetic Educator Bariatric/weight loss surgery is a life changing procedure. It is the only proven method for sustained weight loss in patients suffering from clinically severe obesity (BMI ≥ 37.5 kg/m2). Almost all bariatric/weight loss procedures restrict the amount of food one can consume in one meal. This