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    • Apr 6
    • 1 min

    Another New Year

    Photo Credit Pexells.com Nur Andi Rasvanjani Gusma Soon it will be the time to celebrate the Sinhalese & Tamil New Year But alas, there's...

    • Dec 12, 2021
    • 3 min

    Studying medicine at the foothills of Himalayas, Kathmandu valley

    Hello all! My name is Madushika and I completed my MBBS in Pokhara, Nepal, following which I entered a 365-day compulsory rotational...

    • Oct 18, 2021
    • 3 min

    An Appreciation, Dr B.A.S. Jayasekara.

    "Ajith Jayasekara was a respected and greatly loved physician who practised in Colombo for many years. He was a couple of years junior...

    • Aug 1, 2021
    • 1 min

    Absolute solitude in the bush

    Upananda Bopitiya clearly has a talent for writing. This talent was kept under wraps for so long, but we are grateful to him for letting...

    • May 23, 2021
    • 4 min

    Carrying coals to Newcastle

    Colour of his teeth has saved Siva ....... Photo private collection of A Sivakumar. On a cool February night forty years ago, Jayantha,...

    • May 9, 2021
    • 3 min

    Living Childhood Dreams at 70+

    If our colleague Ranjith Thambirajah’s youth was made memorable by travelling frequently in upcountry trains with his father, my...

    • Feb 21, 2021
    • 5 min

    Tribute to Dr K Ratnakumar

    Ratna and Saro Tribute to Dr Kandiah Ratnakumar FRCS 15.04.1951- 26.01.2021 Emeritus Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Alumnus of 1....

    • Jan 23, 2021
    • 3 min

    The picture that reminds me of my old profession.

    Doctor's Dilemma! Sir Luke Fildes, The Doctor, 1891 | Image released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported) Photo © Tate I...

    • Nov 23, 2020
    • 1 min

    Thanksgiving in 2020

    Photo Credit Rachel Claire from Pexels Missing celebratios Tis the season of rejoicing and Happy Thanksgiving But the deadly COVID has...

    • Aug 29, 2020
    • 5 min

    Glimpses of my childhood and defeating dyslexia

    How Harendra de Silva overcame Dyslexia

    • Aug 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    "Stay dressed for action & keep your lamps burning."Luke 12:35 ESV

    Value of a moment !

    • May 27, 2020
    • 4 min

    Never a dull moment

    George and his stamps

    • May 8, 2020
    • 3 min

    There in the Old Kalahari

    Solly meets his relatives

    • May 8, 2020
    • 2 min

    Reflections on a life well travelled

    Sunila Sarathchandra reminisces about life and friendship

    • May 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    Lack of mindfulness “sniff the food”

    Nalini, Chocolate Sauce and Vegetables

    • May 5, 2020
    • 2 min

    My first job interview in UK

    How Markar discovered "Toad in the hole"

    • May 5, 2020
    • 3 min

    Curing Thalassaemia in Sri Lanka

    Kalinga Nanayakkara's personal odyssey to cure the incurable

    • Apr 27, 2020
    • 3 min

    Taking the piss

    How Rudi took piss out of his friends!

    • Apr 18, 2020
    • 3 min

    Covid-19 and this little village in England

    A very thirsty Kuvera tells us about his “water problem”

    • Apr 17, 2020
    • 4 min

    Part 1: Baptism of fire: My first ENT operation

    Jayantha Premachandra recounts his disastrous first day as a student ENT SHO in Colombo General Hospital

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