The Best Surgeries are the Ones We Avoid
A lot of the work that happens on this newsletter every week is focused on the act of doing. What will we do so that disease can be removed? What can we do to restore anatomy? and so on. And important as it might be to know what to do, it’s sometimes important to also […]
The Missing Prescription in Women’s Health: Sleep
Ask a gynecologist about the key pillars of reproductive health, and you’ll hear the usual suspects: hormones, diet, exercise, and stress management. But there’s one critical factor we almost never bring up in consultations—sleep.
The SAD Triangle of Endometriosis & 1 Year of EW
Do you think there even is enough material to write about Endometriosis? You’re just gonna run out of content after 10 editions” This is verbatim what the marketing head of a very reputed surgical devices company once said to us when we were about to launch this newsletter.
A Registry for the Forgotten: Can India’s Bold New Move Fix Women’s Healthcare?
For centuries, women’s health in India has been a footnote in medical discourse—an afterthought, a whisper in crowded hospital corridors, a matter too “domestic” to warrant systemic attention. All a little too hush hush..
The Mathematics of Endometriosis Surgery – Ep 5 – Vascular Web Dissection
The pelvis is a pandora’s box. Every time you open it, you unleash what was otherwise only symptomatic, and now, you must deal with it. One simple, but important, and indispensable part of dealing with this pandora’s box is the topic of today’s edition.
How PMS makes your life harder
Let’s talk about premenstrual syndrome (PMS)—that monthly visitor that brings along bloating, mood swings, and a general sense of malaise. For nearly half of women of reproductive age, PMS is an unwelcome guest that disrupts their daily lives. As gynaecologists, we’re often the first line of defense against this cyclical adversary. But are we truly […]
Catching Pelvic Floor Dysfunction, Red Handed
She walks in for the fifth time this year. Mid-thirties. Sharp eyes dulled by fatigue. She’s carried a folder thicker than most patient files, filled with prescriptions, ultrasound reports, and urine cultures that all whisper the same frustrating word: “normal.”
Extreme Adenomyosis and Success Rates
As doctors, we are often faced with this question, especially right before patients are about to pencil in their surgery. Even when they don’t ask us, we carry the moral burden of showing them, every alternate universe in which things don’t go as planned.