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What is “HOW TO (NOT) BECOME A BETTER PATIENT”?

Here I’ll be approaching health, science and medicine from different perspectives all with the same aim: “making you (not) become a better patient”.

Topics include:

• 1. How to communicate more effectively with healthcare providers

• 2. Which medical alarm symptoms to be aware off

• 3. How to reduce your risk of disease

• 4. The pitfalls of modern medicine

• 5. How processes within your body work

• 6. The frontiers of (cancer) research

• And much more...

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Meet the science geek

I am Subramanian Venkatesan (just call me Mani) and if I have to put a label on myself, I would choose: cancer researcher, medical student & science geek.

I started medical school at Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam and immediately fell in love with science. At the neuroscience department I worked on neuroanatomy of a novel cerebellar nucleus. Wanting to do more patient-related research I completed a Masters in Neuroscience focusing on personalised medicine in glioblastoma multiforme. Towards the end of this research period I got recruited to pursue a PhD at the Francis Crick Institute in London. Here I investigated the involvement of APOBEC in breast and lung cancer. Now back in medical school I’m trying to broaden my skill set with bioinformatics.

Get in touch

Contact me on twitter @MD_Venkatesan or comment on one of my posts.

Collaborations

I’m always interested in meeting and working with new friends. Get in touch for any collabs / guest post writing.

Disclaimer:

All content and media on this website is created and published online for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice and should not be relied on as health or personal advice.