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Dr Shashikiran Umakanth

@shashikiranu

Exploring Medicine, Health, and Life • Physician & Prof @MAHE_Manipal • MD, FRCP Edin • All 𝕏 posts personal

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Most diagnostic errors are not due to a lack of knowledge - but because clinicians stop thinking too soon. Slowing down and rethinking, questioning assumptions, giving attention to what doesn't fit, and listening to the patient often reveal what lab tests cannot. #MedTwitter

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Thanks for your kind words Sangeetha. It’s deeply fulfilling to know that reflective thinking has stayed with you. Medicine constantly humbles us. Questioning ourselves & listening to the patient are what keep us anchored to good clinical care. Keep it alive and keep growing.

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Kannada and Tamil are sister languages. They are both classical languages – with ancient and independent traditions. We should all recognise this and promote mutual cultural respect. ನಾವಿಬ್ಬರೂ ಸಹೋದರಿಯರು. நாங்கள் இருவரும் சகோதரிகள். #Kannada #Tamil

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INSULIN RESISTANCE EXPLAINED. What if your body has the key… but forgot how to use it? Your cells have a door lock. Insulin is the key. And sugar is just trying to get in. Imagine this: Your muscle cells are like small houses with their doors locked. Glucose (sugar) wants to

INSULIN RESISTANCE EXPLAINED.

What if your body has the key… but forgot how to use it?

Your cells have a door lock. Insulin is the key. And sugar is just trying to get in.

Imagine this:
Your muscle cells are like small houses with their doors locked. Glucose (sugar) wants to
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My article in The Sunday Guardian today (June 15, 2025) reflects on an age-old question: Why does dharma (righteousness) take so long to establish itself? Grounded in Indian epics, other traditions, history and global struggles for justice, the article explores how dharma works.

My article in The Sunday Guardian today (June 15, 2025) reflects on an age-old question: Why does dharma (righteousness) take so long to establish itself?

Grounded in Indian epics, other traditions, history and global struggles for justice, the article explores how dharma works.
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Yoga is not just a form of exercise. Yoga is a balance of our body, breath and mind. Yoga is skill in every action. (BG 2: 50) #InternationalYogaDay #yoga

Yoga is not just a form of exercise.

Yoga is a balance of our body, breath and mind.

Yoga is skill in every action. (BG 2: 50)

#InternationalYogaDay #yoga
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Dialysis Sounds Scary. But here is what you must know. --- What is Dialysis? If our kidneys (which are the filters in our body) slow down or stop due to an illness, waste products start building up in the blood. This can cause swelling, breathlessness, drowsiness, vomiting

Dialysis Sounds Scary.

But here is what you must know.

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What is Dialysis?

If our kidneys (which are the filters in our body) slow down or stop due to an illness, waste products start building up in the blood. This can cause swelling, breathlessness, drowsiness, vomiting