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Bringing Neuroscience to the Masses: Dr. Siddharth Warrier
RareErth Podcast
Navigating Multiple Identities in Neurology
This chapter explores the unique blend of identities as a neurologist, poet, and content creator, revealing the complexities and confusions that come with multiple roles. It highlights the day-to-day experience of a neurologist, discussing patient consultations both in-person and online, while delving into the speaker's passion for neuroscience and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their work.
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Speaker 2
So I started going, doing a little bit of binge watching of your stuff. And then I got a little confused. Are you the poet or are you the neurologist or the content creator?
Speaker 1
My channel is designed to confuse people like that. Yeah, so
Speaker 2
it's a really good brain exercise. So
Speaker 1
the title of my channel was that neuroscience is everything. Right. And I'm trying to I'm trying to live up to that tagline. And
Speaker 2
not that you're doing a tremendously good job there. So welcome
Speaker 1
to the show. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2
Yeah. So I, in fact, I was speaking to one of my friends much before the recording. And this was like two, three days back. And I said, Hey, you know what, I'm getting a neurologist to come into my show. And then she was very excited. She said, Hey, that's amazing. Mira number, my date of birth is like 22. And my husband's is 11. So please check the compatibility. I said, yeah, numerologist name neurologist. Yeah, it's,
Speaker 1
it's an often confused subject.
Speaker 2
So I wonder, do you have any expertise in that field too? In
Speaker 1
numerology,
Speaker 2
absolutely not.
Speaker 1
So
Speaker 2
when we say a neurologist, what exactly does a neurologist do? So
Speaker 1
I'm a doctor, essentially, I'm somebody who's done MBBS and then MD and then DM medicine and neurology. So that's super specialization. And my core area is the brain. So neurology is all about the brain, the spinal cord, the nerves, the muscles. So that part of the human body comes under my speciality. So anytime anybody has any problem in this particular aspect, even when they come to me. Wonderful.
Speaker 2
And typically, a neurologist, what's your typical day look like? So when you I think now, though, of course, we have the COVID going on, things have become remote. But otherwise, what is a typical day look like for you?
Speaker 1
So my days have actually not changed much because of COVID, because usually doctors have pretty much the same routine. The only thing is that, apart from getting out the house visiting hospitals, seeing patients who are admitted, seeing OPDs, and for surgeons attending operation theaters. All of this is still going on for most doctors. The only thing that is extra is that we've also added online consultation, which was not the case so much before. But now that has become a significant part of the day. So every day, I spend a couple of hours doing online consultation in the mornings. And then I leave the house. I have a usual round of hospitals where people are admitted so I have to go and check up on them and then I have my opening and some days I get home by five, some days I get home by nine depending on whether I have evening movie or not and the days I do get home early I spend a little bit of time relaxing and then I start on my second job which is, which is started since the last one is online content creation.
Speaker 2
Yeah, Sitaar, I think you have put in a tremendous amount of content in the last one year. If I look at the YouTube content that you have produced, the different kinds of people that you have interviewed, was it a sheer outcome of boredom or you had so much time or this was something you were passionate about or you discovered your passion during this COVID times? What's the story?
Speaker 1
Story was, I was always interested in neuroscience, even before I got into neurology, I always knew that I'm interested in the brain, I wanted to learn all about it. And the reason was I wanted to understand human behavior through neuroscience, and I understand psychology through neuroscience. So that was always there and I have been reading up and I've been collecting all this information for the last three years with the hope of one day writing a book which is how I think a lot of ideas start and then you realize that hey it's not 1960s anymore and there are many other ways of getting your information out there and so when I discovered YouTube content, Christian, when I discovered how to make videos, it was a whole new world. And I really got into it.
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