Don't panic...

Friends, you need not panic about Corona, you can be serious about it but for God's sake, don't panic, it won't serve any purpose. Most people infected with Corona would have mild symptoms and are likely to recover within two weeks. Only 14 percent might develop severe symptoms viz laboured breathing or increased rate of breathing with decreased oxygen saturation but they may not die. Only five percent might develop respiratory failure, septic shock and multiple organ failure and out of which only two percent might die. Hence please stop being obsessed by this Corona round the clock ...try to smile and enjoy your life at home...stay home, stay safe... Col Pradeep Pendyala Anaesthesiologist.

Few reminders

Break your face touching habit, use sanitizer often, clean your mobile phone everyday with isopropyl alcohol, preferably use headphones or speakers on the mobile phone so that you don't touch your face often with your phone, make sure, you've a thermometer to know any increase in your temperature, don't neglect good nutrition, whenever you sneeze, try to sneeze into your elbows and lastly, don't miss daily five minutes workout at home. Col Pradeep Pendyala, Professor, Anaesthesiology, ASRAM.

A record on LinkedIn

Enjoy reading my post which has two lakh views , three thousand likes on LinkedIn 🙂🙂

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6547667823999717376-JJn0

Happy Ugadi

Posing with the bust of Dr APJ Abdul Kalam at the central library of ASRAM just now on the day of Ugadi 25 March 2020.
Incidentally, I was the RMO of DRDL Hyderabad in 1982-83 when Dr Abdul Kalam was the director of DRDL and also lived next to his small room where he stayed in the officers' mess of DRDL.

Latest about Covid19

Scientists have suggested dozens of existing compounds for testing but WHO is focusing on what it says are the four most promising therapies: an experimental antiviral compound called remdesivir; the malaria medications chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine; a combination of two HIV drugs, lopinavir and ritonavir; and that same combination plus interferon-beta, an immune system messenger that can help cripple viruses. Some data on their use in COVID-19 patients has already emerged—the HIV combo failed in a small study in China-but WHO believes a large trial with a greater variety of patients is warranted

Strange dreams...

Strange but true, if you keep thinking about something to happen, it actually happens. If you keep telling yourself repeatedly that you're great, you actually become one. Similarly, if you keep telling yourself repeatedly that you are useless, you do become one for sure. Now for God's sake don't ask me whether you'd grow six foot tall if you constantly think that you would...nor you'd become rich like Mukesh ambani if you keep on thinking about becoming rich. But trust me, there's something called fulfilment of a desire by the power of constant thinking. When you think constantly of something strongly desirable,  your dream would definitely come true.

Become a writer

There's a writer in all of us, we just need to start writing in black and white about our feelings and thoughts, that's all. I was very keen to get my write ups published in newspapers. In 2009,  I must have sent thousands of my write ups to various newspapers including Hindustan times, Times of India and Deccan chronicle. But there's no response from the editor for more than eight months. My son told me that my write ups may not be published ever. But I didn't stop my attempts of sending my write ups to various newspapers especially for the column of  letters to the editor. Believe it not,  after few more months my letters started appearing very frequently in most of the newspapers. More than seventy five write-ups of mine were published in Hindustan times...which must be a record.