Dr.Srinivasa Raju

Stroke Localization Made Simple- MCA Stroke (Middle Cerebral Artery) ➊ Face & arm weakness > leg weakness ➋ Contralateral sensory loss ➌ Dominant side → Aphasia ➍ Non-dominant side → Neglect Remember: MCA = “M” for Mouth & aRM involvement ACA Stroke (Anterior Cerebral Artery) ➊ Leg weakness > arm weakness ➋ Personality changes ➌ Abulia (loss of motivation) ➍ Urinary incontinence Think: ACA affects the medial brain → lower limb area.⸻ PCA Stroke (Posterior Cerebral Artery) ➊ Contralateral homonymous hemianopia ➋ Visual symptoms ➌ Alexia without agraphia ➍ Macular sparing Classic clue: “I can write… but I can’t read”.⸻ Lateral Medullary Syndrome (PICA) ➊ Dysphagia & hoarseness ➋ Vertigo, nystagmus, ataxia ➌ Ipsilateral facial sensory loss ➍ Contralateral body pain/temperature loss ➎ Horner syndrome Crossed findings = brainstem lesion .⸻ Medial Medullary Syndrome (ASA) Remember the “3 M’s”: ➊ Medial lemniscus → ↓ vibration/proprioception ➋ Motor p...

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  The core problem is this: who am I? Unless the medical professional have clear cut clarity, how can they decide- how to behave? govt charging hospitals as commercial entities but expecting professional services. patients think every medical error and medical accidents can be sued under consumer court/civil court. police think doctors are criminals and file culpable homicide FIRs when ever allegation of negligence.  So, Who am I ? professional+ service man+ business man +entrepreneur +criminal? is there any profession with such ambiguous nature of challenges? Doctors in India are forced to operate under conflicting and contradictory expectations, with no clear, consistent definition of their role. This creates the impossible situation - If a doctor behaves purely as a professional, the system (costs, regulations, competition) pushes them towards commercial behavior. - If they behave as a businessman, society and media attack them for being “money-minded”. - If any adverse eve...

 The Sugar Pill Paradox: Why India Fails to Ban Homeopathy Despite Global Rejection Imagine a magic portal suddenly opens and transports every homeopath on Earth into another dimension. They cease to exist on our planet overnight. Do you know what would happen to global healthcare? Absolutely nothing. No emergency rooms would collapse. No surgical pipelines would freeze. No life-saving pharmaceutical supply chains would break. Modern clinical medicine would continue to heal, treat, and progress without skipping a single beat. Yet, in India, homeopathy is not just tolerated; it is state-sponsored, mainstreamed, and legally protected. Why does a nation striving to be a technological and scientific superpower continue to shelter a practice that the rest of the scientific world has systematically discarded? The Global Verdict: Science Has Left the Room While India continues to nurture homeopathy under the umbrella of the AYUSH Ministry, the global scientific community has spent the las...

  The Great Medical Illusion: If India Has Millions of "Doctors," Why Does the System Collapse When Modern doctors  Strike? The Indian healthcare system is currently facing a moment of reckoning. Once again, MBBS and MD resident doctors & private doctors are on the streets, protesting for -cross practice& safety, fair working hours, and basic dignity. And once again, the state apparatus, courts, and media are gaslighting them with the same old narrative: “Go back to work. Patients are dying. You cannot strike.” But this emotional blackmail hides a massive, systemic hypocrisy. If the government, the law, and state policies have spent decades claiming that India has an abundance of "doctors" across various branches of medicine, why does the entire nation’s healthcare system grind to a violent halt the moment MBBS resident doctors  walk out and &private doctors put steth-down? Let’s strip away the political correctness and ask the tough, legally pressing q...