Hi, I am Mahitha, Foreign Medical Graduate. This is a Blog that depicts the patient centered approach for learning general medicine .This Blog has been created after taking consent from each patient and their relatives. Here we discuss each individual patients' problems through a series of inputs from the available data and knowledge, with an aim to solve those patients' clinical problems with collective best evidence-based information. Detailed discussion is posted on each patient to reflect my learning portfolio and your valuable inputs are very much appreciated.The links that were used by me for understanding the particular disease have been mentioned below in each post . Hope you enjoy reading these cases and learn the valuable information from them!

 Hi, I am Mahitha, Foreign Medical Graduate. This is a Blog that depicts the patient centered approach for learning general medicine .This Blog has been created after taking consent from each patient and their relatives. Here we discuss each individual patients' problems through a series of inputs from the available data and knowledge, with an aim to solve those patients' clinical problems with collective best evidence-based information. Detailed discussion is posted on each patient to reflect my learning portfolio and your valuable inputs are very much appreciated.The links that were used by me for understanding the particular disease have been mentioned below in each post . Hope you enjoy reading these cases and learn the valuable information from them!

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