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.
What Goffman would have made of a thirty-bed male medical ward at nine in the morning.
12 September 2026
Why district-level care keeps sending patients upward, and what it costs the family that travels.
28 August 2026
An honest account of the second attempt, and what I would tell someone starting the first.
30 July 2026
Short explanations of the things I end up repeating twenty times a day in the outpatient department.