Just a few anecdotes I thought nicely illustrated my day to day life here… The Milk Store: I go to my neighborhood dairy shop for the first time last week. These are basically the small shopfronts/bodegas that you find in most any non western country in the world. I step up to the counter and […]
Please forgive the vanity, but I fell truly madly deeply in love with my fancy sari and I want to show it off to the world. I went to my first big Indian wedding…hurrah! It was the marriage of the daughter of one of my research mentors here, and it included a huge reception at a […]
Devaraja Market, established during Tipu Sultan’s reign, is one of the biggest and best known markets in south India. This is where the famous Mysore jasmine flowers, bidi leaves, and essential oils are sold along with pretty much anything else you can think of.
Warning, this first bit is a bit MD centric but bear with me… SInce I started rounding with the pulmonary team, I have of course been asking lots of questions about what antibiotic therapies people were on. What struck me the most, was how many people were on Pip/Tazo and Clindamycin. When I asked why […]
For those that might not be familiar with the details, of what this blog is all about: I’m an Infectious Diseases Fellow at Emory University who was given the amazing opportunity, through the Fogarty Global Health Scholars Program, to spend a year doing public health related research in Mysore, India. TB is one of my […]
From all reports, I had a pretty classic first day. Based on advice from India savvy folks, I had tried to mentally prepare myself for the…umm…differences in India’s approach to scheduling. I got into Bangalore around midnight and then got a taxi directly to Mysore which tool about 3.5 hrs putting me into the PHRI […]
Mari Curry 