Dr. Parameswaran ShankerDifferential DiagnosisIn clinical practice, the treating physician makes a provisional diagnosis of the patient’s condition with due consideration of history…3 min read·Apr 5, 2024----
Dr. Parameswaran ShankerCarpet of EfflorescenceKaas Plateau in the Sahayadri sub-cluster of Western Ghats lives up to its name. It is khaas (unique), occupying about 10 square kilometres…4 min read·Oct 18, 2023----
Dr. Parameswaran ShankerTo Sir, with LoveHappy to borrow this title from Sidney Poitier’s award-winning movie, although in a different context.3 min read·Oct 18, 2023----
Dr. Parameswaran ShankerVive la FranceWhen I realized that there’s more to the country than ‘la bise’ (traditional French peck on the cheeks) or calling the English ‘rosbif’…4 min read·Feb 6, 2022----
Dr. Parameswaran ShankerHealing Touch — Balancing the Equation“The touch that heals literally with an Oxytocin surge and figuratively with a Serotonin surge, both being feel-good hormones.”3 min read·Aug 1, 2021----
Dr. Parameswaran ShankerAll about ‘keedas’ and Split PersonasAs you enter the sixth decade of life some privileges come as an add-on. No sooner do you blow the candle on the cake overnight, than the…4 min read·Jun 29, 2021----
Dr. Parameswaran ShankerCo-Evolution — Nature as a Balancing ForceWe all know about Darwin’s treatise on ‘The Origin of Species’. Most of us would have also read a few facts about phylogeny - the history…2 min read·Jun 11, 2021----
Dr. Parameswaran ShankerProphylaxis — The Moot PointAfter a month and half of speculating and theorising, I can see we are back to square one. Coming down to brass tacks the question of…2 min read·Jun 8, 2021----
Dr. Parameswaran ShankerStorm TimesWhen you utter the word twenty-twenty it sounds so rhythmic and musical, especially to our country overdosed with cricket T20’s and IPL. No…5 min read·Jun 4, 2021----
Dr. Parameswaran ShankerConfessions of a Virus: A View From The Other SideHow strange are you the human race! You decided to exterminate me soon after my birth and ended up christening me COVID 19 from Novel CoV…4 min read·Jun 3, 2021----