Gagan Kumar MD,MA

I am an Intensivist at Northeast Georgia Health Center at Gainesville, Georgia. I graduated from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi in 1998 and then completed residency in Otolaryngology and Head & Neck residency from AIIMS in 2001. I came to United States in 2002 and worked with Dr. Claus Peter-Richter and Dr Jaime Garcia-Anoveros at Northwestern University at Chicago where I completed my Masters in Audiology in 2003 and worked on finding resistivity of cochlea and finding hearing receptor on hair cells of cochlea. I then went on to residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care from Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. It took quite a while, but it gave me an opportunity to see how doctors practiced in different areas of medical field along with their life style and their though processes.

I like teaching medical students, residents and fellows and have fun discussing different critical care topics.

In internal medicine, understanding of pathophysiology makes it easier to take care of your patients. It makes you think more clearly and critically. These concepts are however taught very early in your medical school but without context. By the time you are in your clinical rotation, these are mostly forgotten and medicine becomes a "rote subject" and it looks like a mountain of information that you have to remember. Unfortunately, the training periods for medical professionals are getting shorter and more stress is now being given to algorithmic flow rather than complete understanding. Medicine is vast and the devil is in the details.

I therefore, recently started you tube channel to explain complex medical topics by answering why and how in medicine.  My goal is to discuss both the underlying physiology and how to apply them clinically. Explanations are both intuitive and mathematical for different learners. I discourage rote knowledge as it deters you from enjoying medicine. 

One of my other goals is to help medical professionals understand basics of statistics and understand their biases that creeps in during their long career. This is not taught in medical school but is needed everyday to understand the medical literature and not to draw wrong conclusions. In current era, knowledge is all around you, all you need is to find will and a good online resource.

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