Resident Doctor is a newsletter centred on dispelling healthcare misconceptions, instilling a scientific temper and busting traditional myths.
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About the Author
Cyriac Abby Philips
Cyriac Abby Philips
Cyriac Abby Philips is a highly cited, acclaimed and award-winning liver disease specialist and clinician-scientist based at The Liver Institute, Rajagiri Hospital, Kochi. His seminal research includes the introduction of healthy donor stool transplant for patients battling severe alcohol-related liver disease. He has also authored disruptive peer-reviewed publications on Ayush-related liver injury and herbal and dietary supplements.
Featured Newsletter
The great Indian nutritional myths
Honey and jaggery are not healthier substitutes for sugar and you don’t need to drink eight glasses of water a day.
Recent Editions
What is wrong with Indian diets?
Whether you like it or not, the different diets followed by most Indians across the country lack adequate nutrition.
28 Nov 2023
What happened when I lost my Twitter account
The moment my account was withheld, my world of learning came crashing down, but then came a sudden realization.
25 Oct 2023
Does beer have health benefits?
From reduction in heart-related diseases, Alzheimer’s disease and type 2 diabetes to, recently, improving “intestinal microbiota” and “gut health,” beer is said to have several benefits. But there is a twist.
26 Sept 2023
Black coffee is the healthiest drink you didn’t know about
Multiple scientific studies suggest that habitual black coffee consumption cuts heart, brain, liver and kidney ailments as well as various cancers.
29 Aug 2023
Older Editions
Why we need to stop normalizing alcohol consumption on social media
A photo of you holding a glass of whisky on social media can give someone a false notion of security around continued alcohol misuse, resulting in serious health complications, even death.
25 Jul 2023
The irrationality of multivitamin use
Multivitamin and mineral supplements are advised or self-prescribed in the hope that they’ll prevent disease and improve health. But do they help at all? Evidence from medical science tells another story.
27 Jun 2023
When doctors sell supplements
What do you do when doctors use social media to misinform patients and the public in order to monetize their interests in the unregulated supplements industry?
30 May 2023
Three things that medical doctors can learn from ayurveda and homeopathy practitioners
A huge margin separates medical science and pseudoscience, but it gets blurred at a single point: patients.
25 Apr 2023
Fatty liver disease is not the actual disease
The treatment for fatty liver disease depends on the cause—alcohol-associated or non-alcohol-associated—and several other factors also play a role.
29 Mar 2023