The AKMG 2022 Convention Souvenir Committee is seeking original submissions for publication in the 2022 Annual Souvenir. The overarching theme is: "Positive by choice – we can and we will", intended to reflect on how we collectively stood up against the pandemic.
The AKMG 2022 Convention Souvenir Committee is seeking original submissions for publication in the 2022 Annual Souvenir. The overarching theme is: "Positive by choice – we can and we will", intended to reflect on how we collectively stood up against the pandemic.
The broad categories of articles include:
1 Medicine/Science related articles
. Medical/Science review articles on a topic of interest/relevance to AKMG readers (Kindly avoid scientific manuscripts or case reports more suitable for a peer reviewed journal and please do not submit any pre-published article)
. Personal medical experiences with relevance to AKMG readers (kindly try to include the impact of your personal involvement in the patient outcome)
. Stories of courage/resilience/positivity
2 Philosophy
. Personal glimpses of life
. Opinions, ideas
. Critiques
3 Literary
. Stories: fiction / immigrant stories
. Poetry
4 Travelogues with/without photos
5 Humor / cartoon
6 Photography / drawings /paintings
Please send your articles by email (akmgoffice@gmail.com). Keep your articles short with a maximum of 1000 words; however, we understand that based on the content, this may occasionally exceed 1000 words. Submissions should include a full-face author photograph (jpeg), personal details including your specialty, practice situation, position held, honors/ achievements, and contact information (e-mail id which may be published with your article if you are agreeable).
The editorial committee reserves the right to accept, reject or edit the submissions to match the overall style of presentation.
Dr. Santhosh Thyagu
Chair, AKMG 2022 Souvenir Committee
Cancer. The word itself strikes fear, bringing to mind a disease that feels like a betrayal from within. As the world's number-two killer, its a subject of immense research, with over a million papers published in the last fifty years alone. But what if our understanding of cancer is fundamentally flawed? What if this seemingly modern disease is not a chaotic accident of our genes, but a ghost of our evolutionary past, an ancient survival mechanism gone rogue? This perspective, while perhaps surprising, is gaining traction among scientists. It suggests that cancer is not a new invention of damaged cells, but a reversion to an older, more primitive way of life. To truly grasp this idea, we must embark on a journey back in time, over a billion years, to the very dawn of multicellular life. The Great Evolutionary Leap: From Individualism to Community For a staggering two billion years, life on Earth consisted solely of single-celled organisms. Their imperative was simple and si...
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