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Rohin
Oct 29, 20201 min read
"He's a fighter!" Words that can hurt
[Medlife Mini] Some thoughts about the words we use in medicine, after reading about Jeff Bridges' lymphoma diagnosis and Ed Yong's...
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Rohin
Oct 15, 20201 min read
The price of knowledge
Should academic research be behind paywalls? Researchers and peer reviewers earn nothing for their work, and yet academic publishers...
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Rohin
Oct 9, 20201 min read
Don't just do something, stand there!
What lessons can be learnt from treating Trump? Why is his proclamation of Regeneron's unproven and experimental antibody cocktail so...
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Rohin
Sep 27, 20201 min read
What Do I Do?
Watch me play a cardiology simulator (with apologies to the patients I killed). This isn't really a Let's Play, but instead I wanted to...
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Rohin
Sep 7, 20201 min read
Stop panicking about COVID and the heart
There have been scary articles about how COVID causes long term heart damage, even in people who have completely recovered. Or who...
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Rohin
Sep 1, 20201 min read
The Old England Journal of Medicine
The first of a new series features archive footage from the Old England Journal of Medicine, a venerable publication that has been...
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Rohin
Aug 26, 20201 min read
COVID: Where science comes to die
Politicians have rightfully received much of the blame for the COVID carnage, but some scientists and doctors have been giving the rest...
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Rohin
Aug 3, 20201 min read
What is death?
We often argue about when life begins, but what about when it ends? What actually is death? The answer is a bit more complicated than you...
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Rohin
Aug 3, 20201 min read
Comparing the COVID pandemic to the response to HIV in the 80s
COVID-19 might seem like a new problem, but the truth is...we've been here before. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose. For those of...
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Rohin
Aug 3, 20201 min read
Interview on BBC Radio 4's Inside Health
Why have so many Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups died from COVID-19? The nice people at the BBC watched my hastily put-together...
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Rohin
Jul 2, 20201 min read
Check it out! I'm on Wikipedia...and I didn't even make the page myself
Utterly bizarrely, I now have my own Wikipedia page. They were even so kind as to email me to ask for a photo, which is the reason I'm...
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Rohin
Jun 29, 20201 min read
Heart sounds.
The Art of Medicine: Chapter 2 This is the most fun I've had making a video for a while, and I'm quite proud of the result. Is groove...
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Rohin
Jun 6, 20201 min read
Is COVID racist too? How Science & Medicine Get It Wrong
COVID kills Black people at an alarming rate, but why? Science and medicine have always been, and continue to be, structurally racist...
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Rohin
Apr 25, 20201 min read
The Great Ventilator Fiasco of COVID-19
First we're told we need thousands of ventilators. Now they might be hurting more than helping? How does this relate to the biggest...
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Rohin
Apr 18, 20201 min read
4 Nightshifts as a cardiologist at a time of COVID
Not my usual kind of content, but I've made a foray into the medical vlog world because it's a very unusual time at the moment and I...
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Rohin
Apr 6, 20201 min read
The hidden victims of COVID-19
What a clusterf*ck this virus is. Another late night, short video about an aspect of coronavirus I don't want to see forgotten. There's...
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Rohin
Mar 31, 20207 min read
My favourite science and medical podcasts
In the last year or so, my Audible credits have been piling up as I seem to prefer podcasts to audiobooks. This may or may not be because...
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