By Ramana Annamraju MedBricks                                                   (This part 2 of 3 Series) Note: If you have not read Part 1 of these series here is the link - 3 min read                       Psychedelics - Mental Health We all consider Marilyn Monroe, Will Smith, Jennifer Lawrence of American cinema, to be beautiful-looking people! What makes them beautiful? We believe specific features of them to be the more attractive. The secret may be facial symmetry. Symmetry is the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other. If you draw a vertical line between the two eyes of Marilyn Monroe, the left side looks very much like the right side. We consider people with bilateral facial symmetry are more attractive.   Humans have...

                                                                          By Ramana Annamraju MedBricks  Before MotherTherea is Mother Teresa, she took intensive medical training. She spent six months in 1948 with the American Medical Missionary Sisters hospital, in the city of Patna, India. She may not be qualified as a nurse. But six months of training in the serious medical setting is substantial, compared to only three years of training for medical doctors in those days. Mother Teresa took leprosy patients to her home while the whole world outcasted them with utmost stigma. In the Science versus Stigma war, science has shown the way, how to beat stigma, Here is the sad story of stigma and the triumph of science. These destitute are fellow Indians forced to liv...

By Ramana Annamraju MedBricks    (This part 1 of 3 Series) Do not Condone drugs- Do not take drugs- This is a severe educational exercise - alternative to drugs. Dr. Sunil Kumar Aggarwal of Seattle, Washington, is not an everyday Indian doctor you meet. He is creating his own version of David and Goliath's story. HIM Vs. mighty Institutions of American Medicine, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, (CMS), Federal Drug Administration (FDA), Drug Enforcement Authority (DEA), and a host of local and state medical boards. Who is on his side? The end-stage cancer-stricken mother of two from the Seattle area. ERINN BALDESCHWILER’S breast cancer is terminal. The patients in her situation constantly worry about their loved ones and never-ending thoughts of dying. The fear and worries consume the remaining part of their lives. How do you treat dying patients with unrelenting depression?. Doctors have plenty of tools available on their hands for the sick but not for...

                                                                                                By Ramana Annamraju MedBricks    “The finite mind of man can never grasp the mysteries of the infinite. It is the highest wisdom, as it is our great happiness, to accept our limitations, to use what we have, and leave the rest to God.” - George Washington Well, once upon a time. there lived a man who wants to know the mind of God! As the Novel Coronavirus devastating humanity, it stunned from the front line healthcare workers to world-class scientists with its mysterious beginnings to its elusive behavior. But it did not bypass the premonition of a young man who lived almost one hundred years ago in...