SWINE FLU PANIC AT BHUBANESWAR

Poor pig has nothing to do with the transmission of the disease like a mosquito for malaria.Swine have this flu virus but seldom suffers !! Who asked you to sleep and share the same room with this innocent animal?The virus gets in to the body of a human being and for survival changes its RNA and tries to live with the human system.So the culprit here is the influenza virus who is named as H1N1 after it changes it's characteristics in side the human immune system.By taking one vaccine may not suffice because by next year your immunity might have gone so you have to take another prick.But who knows it may be H2N2 virus and again you Q up for a prick.Where is the end??
This is known as virus highway.Virus will come and attack human beings, some fortunate ones will survive and rest(unfit ones) will succumb.The ecological imbalance has resulted in this type of out break of viral diseases.
My appeal to the parents of young children.You give around 26 pricks before the child goes to school but what about the immunization against road accidents due to drunken or faulty driving?So no immunization for that.What about cirrhosis of liver due to alcohol?Again no immunization!!Take care of their real well being by coming close to them but not by medicines or vaccinations.Yes some vaccines are good others have doubtful values but go with the scientific evidence but remember"to days opinion may be obsolete after six months".
Simple advice lead a disciplined life and take measures which can prevent more deaths than swine flu.If you walk around Bhubaneswar you will find people wearing all sorts of funny mask and walking in the streets or driving a car.It's a status symbol of talking about swine flu and its vaccine and wearing a costly mask.Do you know more young people die due to road accidents, malaria, TB, or gastroenteritis alone than swine flu?Till now only 23 have died due to swine flu where as a month back 150+ innocent passengers of an express train were killed not by any disease but due to sabotage of railway track by a politically supported force!! No one has been held responsible for that but the media hype of swine flu has created a havoc amongst the cowardice people of odisha, what a shame!!
Simple measures:Avoid going ( For those who are sick or have symtoms of swine flu)to cinema halls, crowded places, train journey, air travel, big bazaars and AC halls.As far as possible stop going out to other places where more people are reported to have died due to unknown viral diseases.
We do not know the media hype may be a hand work of some vested people in India.!!Do not blame the Government for any thing and every thing that occurs due to natures furry.
PS:Just to prove my point i have not taken the swine flu vaccine even though its available free to me.
For any questions please email to me :sanjoysatpathy@rediffmail.com

PICNIC TIME FOR IGH DOCTORS

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The black and white photograph was taken in the year 1983-84 at fruit garden of Rourkela,Dr.PKChand,Drsksatpathy,Dr.pkdas and Dr.anise are the male persons inthis photo,Sister Eva Ghose is seen in the front row. the coloured one was at the bunglow of director Dr.DNMohapatra.DrKishore with the bucket was serving chicken curry, on the table ready to eat are--Drakmohanty, next to him is Dramol,Drsanjoy,to the right Drdmohanty, Dr ncpatel,DrDNMohapatra,Ladies on the back groundSister Magdali and Dr.Rosalia.(2007)

KASHMIR TOUR BY MEDICAL STUDENTS

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After passing out the tough first MBBS examination (1967),students are allowed to go on a site seeing tour of East and North India with their own cost . In this photograph Sanjoy(self) is sitting on the front row extreme left.Just behind him is his Balsore college mate Pranab Dey. This photo was taken while the students were on way to Kashmir. Many of my class mates are dead, some say 35 out of 160 others some other figure, i do not know.Recently one of my class mate Dr.BNPanda was murdered in his nursing home.We pray GOD to keep his soul in peace.

BEDI VS MURALI

Bedi is like Manisankar iyar who calls a spade a spade.
There are many pseudo moralists in BCCI and amongst Indian cricket writers, who cover on different aspects of cricket in India and it's players.Had the comment from Murali had come on a Maharastrian player then things would have been quite different.But poor Bedi has more enemy than friends in cricket circle hence no one has spoken any thing on the comment by Murali " he did not have variety, he could never spin the ball, he would have been butchered by present day batsman etc etc"
I think players like Alan Knot,Underwood,Boycott, Ian Chappel, Richards,Holding and Hayens who have played against this great left arm spin bowler of all times, should have come out and express their views.But money is a big factor, if they write in support of Bedi ,they may not be welcome in india and BCCI.Where are our great sports writers and commentators ?where are they hiding??
Bisen Singh Bedi we have seen your bowling and the world knows how great a bowler you were, do not be hassled by the comments from a chucker who amassed wickets because there were no other bowlers on the other end to take wickets.Your silence speaks volumes of your greatness.

WORLD RECORDS IN CRICKET

Recently two world records have been created by Muralidharan of Srilanka and Sachin Tendulkar of India.Congratulations to both of them.Their record will stay like the pyramids for hundreds of years because the number of five day test matches will be reduced and no player will last that long to erase these records.

DEMOCRACY?

(CLICK TO ENLARGE)This is a letter to editor in a leading Odiya newspaper on a news which said "The PM did not allow/ give appointment to Odisha's Chief Minister."
What type os democracy is this,? when the PM says NO for an interaction with a Maosist infested state CM called Orissa/Odisha??

FRIENDS

From left to right:sanjoy satpathy,bikram mohanty & dilip pattnaik.Three of them served with steel authority of India as players.Dilip Pattnaik was a star footballer of Orissa and HSL but had a tragic death following B complex injection anaphylaxis.This photo was taken in the year 1972 at Rourkela.

DRUG OLYMPIC

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Human body has certain limitation as regards physical strength, endurance, reflex and stability but experts say with drugs these limitations can be over come, hence the doping test in sports.

Imagine an Olympic with drugs. Here all athletes are allowed to take any thing they like; there will be no restrictions on drug and no dope test as the name signifies. Even the public will be allowed to take beer (free with tickets, maximum 1000ml), it will be like the IPL cricket tournament in India.
There will be no boring events like marathon race, walking events, sword fight, and animal participation. Total period will be for six days only.
Except the referees, camera men, officials’ rest of the people in the stadium can smoke, take drugs. The athletes will not be asked which drug they take, not even the champions. There will be no sex bar. Ladies too can participate along with men and there will be no separate events for ladies but for each event there will be special prizes for ladies. An event where a lady comes first then the males participating in that event has to drink the urine of that lady. This is done to discourage under performance by male athletes and substandard participants. There will be no dress codes for participants.
What is the advantage of this type of Special Olympics?
You save the agony of the athletes. Millions of dollars are saved as laboratory staffs and chemicals will not be required for the dope tests.
As such most of the champions of past and present used performance enhancing drugs but went Scot free because of wrong sampling, faulty technique, bribery, money power and political interference. Take the case of Mario Jones, she was a different type of lady to have confessed about taking drugs other wise I think eight out of ten famous sports person take some form of drugs, be it in form of a diet(dogs meat, bull’s fat, tiger’s testes etc) or medicines or other methods which is not known to the doping experts.
If that be so let’s see, what maximum a human body can achieve in field events or other games and then compare them with the so called drug free sports stars? But the question is, was there a really drug free Olympic in recent years, say in last twenty years?


So friends lets wait for the sponsors to have an Olympic that will have retired or not getting a chance(dropped) or banned athletes or those who do not want to participate in drug free Olympics. The prize money will be $50000(1st prize)$25000(2nd) $10000(3rd) but if tested negative for drugs he or she will be disqualified for next year. This Special Olympics will be held just six months prior to the main Olympics.
The peculiarity of this “Olympic” will be maximum 50 athletes’ will be allowed to participate from one country, no officials. The leader from each country has to be from the participating athletes of that country. Any individual can participate for any country but he has to become a citizen for at least two years before the event.
An event like this can only be held in a country where drugs are freely available and there is no punishment for drug users.
After an internet voting, the venue for the first “drug Olympic” will be decided. The dates will be informed in due time.
I wish some business house picks up this” golden Hen” and start the event before it’s too late. If a human body can run 100 meters in 5 seconds then let it be why to stop this exciting future prospect of science and human limits?. I think it’s worth it to get a gold and $50000 with drugs then lead a drug free life with out achieving any thing in life!!, why not die young(adverse effects of drugs) doing some thing which people will remember for hundreds of years, the choice is yours—“go and get it”.
NB: This is a satire but who knows it may be a reality in future.

Written by Dr.Sanjoy Kumar Satpathy
House no4, Plot401/2362
At post: Patia
Bhubaneswar751031, India

MANGOOSE

This mongoose was my pet for few years may be five, i decided to leave it in the wild but it refused .It lived a full life with me and was very fond of my two pet dogs.Her pet food was chicken and boiled egg.Here one can see her in playful mood on my computer table.

ASSULT ON INDIANS

Assault

When some one is raped and killed in India no one raises an eye brow but if similar thing happen in other countries the head line in Our Indian newspaper takes the front page with bold letters even if the death may be due to natural cause or accident. Why?? This is the age of patriotism by certain group who stay abroad but their heart bleeds for Indian cause!! No one analyze why in different countries Indians are thrashed?? Must introspect and we will get the answer. Lets not go to countries where Indians are not respected or being assaulted.