18.6.15

Attended the 350th year celebrations of founding of the city of Anandpur Sahib, as a member of the VVIP medical team. The PM was supposed to attend the same, but instead the home minister Rajnath Singh came.

24.6.15

Laparoscopic nephrectomy in a young (23 years old) female for non-functioning hydronephrotic kidney (congenital PUJ stenosis). The procedure was rather easy.

1.7.15

IPAA made in a young male, who had earlier (on 11.8.14) undergone subtotal colectomy for severe fulminant ulcerative colitis not responding to medical therapy. The completion proctectomy was difficult. The stapled ileal pouch anal anastomosis was not satisfactory, so a proximal ileostomy was added.

4.7.15

Completion thyroidectomy in a 35 years old female following a right thyroid lobectomy and the pathology reporting a papillary carcinoma. Surprisingly, the pathology report this time was not malignant.

8.7.15

A day of difficult cholecystectomies. The first was a young female with a thick-walled mucocele which had to removed piecemeal, after its cystic duct was ligated. The second and third were middle aged females with choledocholithiasis for which they had undergone ERCP, stone extraction and biliary stenting. The gallbladders too were thick-walled and the cystic ducts wide, needing ligation with no 1 vicryl suture.

Summer vacation from 9 July to 16 August

7.8.15

Court evidence at Dhuri through a warrant rather than a summon for expert evidence!12.8.15

Attended the first meeting of the newly constituted Punjab chapter of ASI at Jalandhar.

22.8.15

Failed to create extraperitoneal space in an attempted TEP repair of inguinal hernia due to obesity and poor muscle relaxation. Converted to open procedure.

12.89.15

A stone grown on a forgotten DJ ureteric stent. The stent had been there for more than 10 years. Both the stent and stone were removed via a cystostomy.