Doctor – Science, Cancer and Medicine

How to secure a PhD

Here, I’ll give you top tips about how to secure the PhD position you want.

Frontiers of Science: Sreya Bhattacharya researching diabetes

The fun of being a scientist is that you make cool friends who study cool stuff. Sreya Bhattacharya is definitely one of them. She’s doing her PhD trying to find new therapies to treat diabetes. More on her later. So, besides giving information on “how to (not) become a better patient”, I’ll be featuring cutting edge science projects done by friends and colleagues. Read until the end!

Stress and lifestyle, an unaddressed challenge in modern healthcare

Stressed out…?There’s a pill for that! Want to control your high blood sugar levels…There’s a pill for that!Can’t sleep…?There’s a pill for that!High blood pressure…?There’s a pill for that!

Let’s get rid of “patients”

Patients, passive users or active participants?

Substack

I set up a substack newsletter. I’m really excited to write more about how “HOW TO (NOT) BE A BETTER PATIENT”. This will be a biweekly newsletter. Check it out here if you like this topic. My blog at http://www.manivenkatesan.com will be about more wide-ranging topics, kind of like a personal diary. Get in touchContinue reading “Substack”

#7 How to be a better patient – Alternative treatments?

In modern day life so many aspects of the human experience is medicalised (meaning conditions and behaviours are labeled and treated as medical issues). The emphasis of medical training lays on how to solve problems through medical interventions (such as drugs or surgery). Quite often there’s a (commercial) treatment for your medical problem: Are yourContinue reading “#7 How to be a better patient – Alternative treatments?”

#4 How to be a better patient – What to do when you have a complaint?

Imagine you’re a patient with extreme pain and you therefore go to A&E (i.e. emergency room) in the hospital. Here you are sat down and not helped for hours. Or imagine you have had a very bad experience with a healthcare professional (doctor, nurse or whoever else in the hospital). What would you do?

#1 How to be a better patient – an intro

In this blog post series “How to be a better patient”, I’ll try to discuss the following things:
1. How to communicate more effectively with healthcare providers 2. Which medical alarm symptoms to be aware off 3. How to reduce your risk of disease 4. The pitfalls of modern medicine. And much more…

My first week as a medical student in the hospital

For the most us (including me), the problem isn’t that we don’t have enough, the problem is too often we don’t spend it well…