HeyJaredRanjana Srivastava
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- Aug 24, 2026
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- Jul 13, 2026
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âRoutineâ medical treatments are not risk free. Patients should ask questions before consenting | Ranjana Srivastava (opens the original)
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The distinction has become blurred between something being medically available and actually being medically useful When a friend finally arranges the chat we were meant to have some weeks ago, she apologises profusely for the lack of contact. I tell her she doesnât need to mollify me but it turns out she is the one in need of sympathy. Her husband had gone into hospital for what was termed a routine procedure. While waiting to collect him, my friend suddenly heard the overhead announcement of
At the end of a long day I made a mistake at work. No patient was harmed and yet it weighs on me | Ranjana Srivastava (opens the original)
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My patients’ needs are varied and complex. Each interaction leaves a residue until the individual concerns blur into a dense mass, most requiring medical oversight The other day, I made a mistake at work. It was the end of a long day. I had already run an outpatient cancer clinic with dozens of unwell patients and then moved on to inpatient rounds on a busy medical unit. My small team cares for 30 patients aged 25 to 100. The younger ones often live with disability and mental illness. Elderly pe
The patient who loves buying lettuce for his daughter-in-law â and what his case teaches us about shared decision-making in medicine | Ranjana Srivastava (opens the original)
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Doctors should recommend treatment accompanied by conversations about the pros and cons for the individuals who are in front of them Weeks before major surgery, a patient cancels his appointment with our geriatric oncology service, declaring it unnecessary. An astute nurse convinces him otherwise. In his mid-80s, the patient has been diagnosed with an early cancer. The surgeon advises that surgery would be the only cure but, noting the lack of urgency, sends him to see me. I can see why. The pro
At a dying manâs bedside, I see something much rarer than grief: the courage to include the young | Ranjana Srivastava (opens the original)
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If we spare youth the universal reality of death, we postpone to middle age the struggle to reconcile with it I am not especially superstitious but it tends to be a Friday afternoon when the collective mass of the hospital shudders to the realisation that the weekend is upon us and important questions are unanswered. My patient is a man in his early 70s who has kept deteriorating after major cancer surgery two weeks ago. Instead of the progressive recovery he was told to expect, he has grown wor
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