Surgeon's diary.

14/08/2025

Dr. Oguz Basut was operating on a young woman with a tumor in her salivary glands when he began to feel strange and suffered a blood pressure drop due to food poisoning from the day before. Instead of stopping, he asked his colleagues to connect an IV to his right foot so he could continue the procedure sitting without leaving his patient.
The surgery was crucial because the tumor was near a critical facial nerve, so the doctor decided to proceed despite the discomfort. "I was not in a position to abandon the surgery," he explained. An intravenous line in his foot helped him stabilize, and within minutes his blood pressure returned to normal.
A photo showing him sitting with the IV in his foot went viral on social media. The head of Bursa Uludag University, Ahmet Saim Kilavuz, posted the image and publicly thanked Dr. Oguz for his bravery and dedication during the important work he carried out despite adversity. Basut concluded by emphasizing that he is not a hero: "I am sure all professionals would have done the same," he said.

14/05/2025

An Auckland heart doctor who saved hundreds of lives in Fiji for free has died.

May 8th

Dr Parma Nand worked as a cardiothoracic surgeon – specialising in surgeries on the heart, lungs and other structures in the chest – for more than 30 years at Mercy Ascot and Auckland City hospitals.

His expertise and kind manner made him a sought-after surgeon in New Zealand, his colleagues say.

But it was arguably his philanthropic work and his desire to give back to his homeland and other parts of the Pacific that made him a well-respected figure in the region.

Friend and colleague Kirit Patel paid tribute to a doctor who had a heart for people and service.

“He was quite exceptional,” Patel said

“He came from a very poor family and back in 2006, he wanted to go to Fiji to give free heart operations – particularly rheumatic heart valve replacement surgery, which is quite complex but pretty prevalent in Fiji.”

Nand reached out to his medical colleagues and professional friends, including Patel, a banker, for help to get to Fiji that year. He organised fundraising efforts and medical equipment to carry out the operations.

Dozens of people, including fellow surgeons, doctors and specialists, stepped up and offered their services for free.

A giant among surgeons
That first trip turned into what became the Friends of Fiji Heart Foundation NZ, which Nand founded. The services they have carried out include open-heart surgeries, pacemaker implants, screenings, angiography and angioplasties.

Since 2006, 15 missions to Fiji have taken place, resulting in more than 770 surgical treatments and 4200 screening assessments and associated services for Fijian residents who would otherwise not be able to afford those operations or treatments.

13/05/2025

With one of the most successful captains of Indian cricket- Mohammed Azharuddin ❤️

16/05/2023

Miraculous escape for a ruptured aortic aneurysm. 💕

10/05/2023

Heart felt condolences and prayers dear sister.
Heart breaking tragedy…Never ever again ..🥲

02/04/2023

Happy National Doctors' Day! 🫀🩺
This photo shows a surgeon who just completed a 23 hour surgery. The patient was borderline impossible to save but the surgery was a success.
National Geographic chose this as the best picture of 1987, and for good reason.

Here, amidst a tangle of wires, Dr. Zbigniew Religa anxiously watches a screen to see how his patient responds after a 23-hour long heart transplant surgery he conducted. In the lower right corner, you can see one of his colleagues who helped him with the surgery fallen asleep.

Dr. Religa was a pioneer of heart transplantation in Poland, and even though the surgery was considered borderline impossible at the time, he took the chance, and the operation was entirely successful. Today, even though Dr. Religa’s heart has stopped beating, the one of his patient is still running.

26/03/2023

Marriage is, and will always be, the most important journey of discovery that a man could ever do.

“Here's to another year of being great together❤️

05/03/2023

A senior cardiologist was beaten up ….
He was one among the first and best interventional cardiologist of our short city. He saved several lives ..Years ago - May be 20 years- he started primary intervention for acute MI!!
If we fill the hospital with the patients he saved ..no one can even reach near him.
But thankless onlookers are busy in ridiculing him in social medias …
His juniors where amazed with the level of enthusiasm he had in saving life through the pin hole…
Early morning when he reach back hospital after a long night of life saving cath intervention there was no question of fatigue.. Sleep for even few hours where considered luxury for him after his strenuous training at AIMS…
But for hooligans all death are due to doctors…
All reports are cooked as Dosas ..
And they can behave the same way as they behave at their homes.
Doctors and health care are taking care of the most vulnerable once in the society and that is why the profession is one of the noblest in the world…
It’s a job where we are giving a great supporting hand to a person, who otherwise will suffer or even die…But not all cases can be salvaged from natures course …

Not many profession is facing such biased rules as medical profession..
The word negligence is uttered for professional mishaps and accidents…
The law that protect a licensed driver is not available for us..
Even over that the public also start beating us… Sad indeed to get beaten up for selecting these profession.
Never ever again..

25/12/2022

30/08/2022

Surgeons can only help them in distress
But the world can stop it from happening

🚙 9-year-old Sasha Filipchuk lost her hand, when her family tried to escape from Hostomel, Kyiv region. Russians fired at their car. Her stepfather died, but she with her mother managed to find a shelter in the neighborhood. Sasha was brought to the hospital only in two days.

Later the girl travelled to the USA with her mother to get the lightest prosthesis in the world — Truelimb.

With it, Sasha is able to move her fingers. On this image, she shows the 🇺🇦 trident with her new bionic arm 💪

📷 Oleksandr Smirnov