The Indic Doctor

Medicine, books,
and the long road.

A government hospital in Odisha teaches you one kind of thing. A decade of reading teaches you another. This is where I write both down.

New piece most weeks.

Recent writing

  • The ward round as an ethnography

    What Goffman would have made of a thirty-bed male medical ward at nine in the morning.

    12 September 2026

  • Everyone wants a referral

    Why district-level care keeps sending patients upward, and what it costs the family that travels.

    28 August 2026

  • On failing an exam twice

    An honest account of the second attempt, and what I would tell someone starting the first.

    30 July 2026

All writing

Plain language, for patients.

From the clinic

Short explanations of the things I end up repeating twenty times a day in the outpatient department.

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