Dr. Venkita S. Suresh

Group Medical Director, Kauvery Hospitals, India

Dear colleagues,

This edition of the NIGHTINGALE is a very emotional issue. Our Nightingale authors have sung from their hearts, some of them with tears flowing down their eyes.

This is the Festival of Lights special edition of the NIGHTINGALE! So, they have many songs to sing.

The nightingales in this issue include male nurses, clinical pharmacists, physician assistants and dialysis technicians besides our stalwart nurse- leaders who have become seasoned writers and write extraordinarily well.

We request every Nightingale in the Kauvery family to sing about how they care for their patients.

As so many stories are rolling out in this issue I am giving here only tantalizing glimpses of  some of them, in no particular order

A cracker that burst in the hand of a little boy has moved the nightingales at Hosur to a tearful song that talks about “mending the broken wings of a little bird”, healing it to fly again!

It was the late Sarojini Naidu, a poet, a freedom fighter and the first woman governor to preside over a state who first wrote

” Broken wings”, perhaps in 1912.

A beautiful teen ager who arrived paraplegic at Tennur, with an infection that bit into her spine at several sites, has received surgery that stabilized her spine. Hopefully she would be able to walk to school again. Tennur stalwarts write about her struggle.

A terrible wound gets tender care from nurses at Alwarpet, but Clinical Pharmacists write about it!

How do you offer a Renal Transplant to a Jehova”s Witness? In William Shakespeare’ s “Merchant of Venice” Portia had demanded at the court that Shylock shall not spill a drop of blood while claiming his ” pound of flesh”.

At Kauvery Hospital Cantonment Hospital, Trichy, anything is possible and expert Nurse- writers describe just that!

APLA can be a nightmare to a young woman and it hits her hard with both a Pulmonary embolism and alveolar Hemorrhage. Stalwart nurses of Tennur write again, to report a heroic rescue.

How do you console, comfort and care for a young woman, who, at the age of 28 confronts unsteadiness on walking and has double vision from a debilitating demyelinating disease? Two clinical pharmacists describe its management at Vadapalani.

Autoimmune Encephalitis has arrived as a dark cloud over many lives, young and old.  Our seasoned Physician Asst writer from Neuro Sciences writes a graphic report of how it darkened the lights in the life of a woman .

Two young, strong and handsome men threw away their lives to lethal Paraquat, sinking their families in deep grief.

A Group Clinical Pharmacist compares the pathology of Paraquat in the pair.

From maa kauvery comes a heart break story, of perhaps one of our youngest patients struck by Landry Guilliain Barre Syndrome, leaving the child severely disabled, now under rehab at Hamsa.

Also from maa Kauvery comes a heart- lifting story of a lifesaving bone marrow transplant for one of the most hopeless scourges to ever visit a little child- Severe Combined Immunodeficiency

The authors write: ” A battle bravely fought by a baby- a miracle brought about by modern medicine which we shall never forget”.

On that fervent thought that celebrates our Kauvery Culture of hope, courage, committment, tenacity, skill, talent, dedication, indefatigability and inspired industry to hold high the highest standards in Medicine, we quitely close this issue, on a wing and a prayer, that the Kauvery Scientific Journals succeed in our thankless mission to share  Kauverians’ good work with the whole wide world .

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