A must read for all secular Indians travelling to Australia
Australia is an expensive country, but its civic services are of the highest standards.
During Christmas, a family from Banaras, UP had gone to Australia for a holiday.
It included a couple, their two children and the man’s father.
After three days in Sydney, they hired a car to go to Melbourne. The freeway from Sydney to Melbourne was just superb.
An 80+ Australian lady was in a car behind them, keeping a safe distance. The Indian kids had knelt on the back seat, looking behind and would often wave to the Aussie lady who would smile and wave back.
Suddenly the Aussie lady saw the head of an old Indian Man emerge out of the back seat window and vomit blood.
She stopped her car on the side and immediately called 000 for help.
Very soon, an Ambulance Helicopter appeared. It landed a kilometre ahead, signalled the Indian family to stop the car, and in no time trained medical staff had taken the old Man into the chopper that was almost an ICU. Oxygen supply started.
Heart rate and other parameters were monitored. A specialist MD was on video call from Melbourne to provide instructions.
In half hour, the old Man was declared safe and fit to travel again.
Kudos to quick help and timely action of the Aussie lady 👍!
For these services, the man was charged A$ 3,500...a lot of money for a middle class Indian family.
With the unplanned financial expenses, the Benaras man was in shock and blasted his father...
"Where was the need to eat betel leaves and spit out of the car!"
It's that time of the year again when most Christians in the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. I say most because there is a significant number of Christians who celebrate on January 6th & we'll get to that in a bit!
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Initially Christmas was celebrated on different dates depending on where in the world one was at the time.
Dates included
January 6th*
January 7th
March 21st
May 20th
May 28th
December 25th*
there is January 6th again!
In around 202 CE St Hippolytus wrote about Christmas being celebrated on December 25th
Both insoluble (wheat bran, veggies, and whole grains) and soluble (oats, fruits, veggies, and beans) fiber are not digestible.
Insoluble fiber provides bulk to our stool and food for our healthy gut bacteria, and soluble fiber helps slow down digestion and can even have a positive impact on heart health
Russell's teapot is an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making empirically unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.
He wrote that if he were to assert, without offering proof, that a teapot, too small to be seen by telescopes, orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, he could not expect anyone to believe him solely because his assertion could not be proven wrong.
Now while, Russell specifically applied his analogy in the context of religion we could just as easily extrapolate this to pseudo scientific claims.
Some people are on social media just to get a few likes/shares/retweets etc
They will give up their integrity and dignity to say the most vile things
All in the aim of getting the online attention they so desperately crave to substitute their pathetic offline lives
For the rest of us who have a lot IRL social media is just an "escape"
A means to take a break maybe connect with some "online buddies"
None of this online stuff should ever be taken seriously. This isn't real life. Real life is out there. Just look above your screen
I find it fascinating how some people are so disgusted with their own lives that it seems their only distraction is to try and spread hate to others online. And it frustrates them even more that if you disengage from their antics. Treat them kindly and it enrages them.
Unfortunate remnant of our British past
In UK even today the ED is called "Casualty"
The term Casualty in India has negative connotations
As we have been trained with American based books and protocols we are more used to the term Emergency Medicine Department or ED
In India historically and in many places to date "Casualty" was staffed by junior inexperienced freshly graduated MBBS doctors who were poorly trained in emergency situations. They were employed with minimal pay and for these doctors it was a chance to gain soke experience.
Now that emergency medicine has become a recognised specialty in India we need to educate the general public of the change and that ED docs are now well trained to handle all emergency cases. Unfortunately this is still a growing specialty. And the awareness is only spreading.