The Dr Maya Way

Ebola comes and goes, as do Mpox, COVID-19, and many other viral infections, but what I have been warning about for years has never changed. Since I know that "Bacterial Infections" almost always follow viral infections, I continued to warn about the "Superbug Pandemic," now known as "Antimicrobial Resistant Infections." The article "Superbug Pandemic and How to Prevent Them," published in The Ame...

Modern medicine was largely established by the 1940s, creating a sense that many treatments are now routine and safe. We expect procedures like C-sections or knee replacements to be predictable and low-risk because it feels as though medicine has built an almost impenetrable barrier against bacteria and other threats. We perceive bacteria as trivial noise that we largely solved decades ago. Howeve...

Encoding Clinical Intuition: The Maya Colour-Coded Three-Symptom System for AI-Enabled Triage Background Digital triage tools are increasingly shaping patient access to healthcare, yet many follow outdated, algorithmic, single-symptom decision trees designed in the late 20th century. These approaches can under-prioritise urgent multi-symptom presentations and over-refer mild cases, limiting their...

It is fundamentally unethical to ask medical professionals to risk their lives in overcrowded wards when we have the technological capability to stop the virus at the patient's front door. The current paradigm of rescue medicine waits until the disaster peaks. And then trying to fix it in an ICU is obsolete. Decentralised prevention, community empowerment and early isolation are the only viable su...

So, right now, in a remote village in India, there's this rugged, battery-powered metal kiosk that uses artificial intelligence to diagnose a patient's heart condition. But at this exact same moment, if you look at a high-end clinic in California, medical providers are using digital billing networks to, you know, quietly siphon millions of dollars from the U.S. government. It's a stark contrast. I...

The difficulties in controlling Ebola infections in DR Congo as highlighted in the article, include:Violence and Attacks on Healthcare Facilities: The hospital near Mongboalu was attacked, and aid tents were burned, which severely hampers response efforts and access to infected patients. Mistrust and Rumours: Communities harbour scepticism towards health authorities, often fueled by misinformation...

The difficulties in controlling Ebola infections in DR Congo as highlighted in the article, include:Violence and Attacks on Healthcare Facilities: The hospital near Mongboalu was attacked, and aid tents were burned, which severely hampers response efforts and access to infected patients. Mistrust and Rumours: Communities harbour scepticism towards health authorities, often fueled by misinformation...

The difficulties in controlling Ebola infections in DR Congo as highlighted in the article, include:Violence and Attacks on Healthcare Facilities: The hospital near Mongboalu was attacked, and aid tents were burned, which severely hampers response efforts and access to infected patients. Mistrust and Rumours: Communities harbour scepticism towards health authorities, often fueled by misinformation...

The difficulties in controlling Ebola infections in DR Congo and Uganda, as highlighted in the Violence and Attacks on Healthcare Facilities : The hospital near Mongboalu was attacked, and aid tents were burned, which severely hampers response efforts and access to infected patients. Mistrust and Rumours : Communities harbour scepticism towards health authorities, often fueled by misinformation, l...

Mongboalu Hospital, near the DRC's eastern border with Uganda, is at the centre of the Ebola outbreak. The facility was attacked by young men demanding the bodies of relatives who had died be handed over to them. Medical staff were forced to evacuate the site, and tents set up by the aid organisation Doctors Without Borders were burned to the ground. The hospital's director says the violence has m...

When I said "This is a war that we may never win" in Medica 2006, doctors, pharmaceutical company directors, device and equipment manufacturers thought I was mad. It’s true, how can a person with a rational mind understand someone gifted with an intuitive mind? I was a fool to feel sad, because my intuition never lies. The very intuition that helped save lives made a priest say, "I play God" — yes...

Just imagine your child develops abdominal pain, and the doctor diagnoses “Appendicitis”. You and the doctor will be in a dilemma, because performing an appendectomy using keyhole surgery is no longer safe - it has become a threat. Exactly. You were terrified because the post-antibiotic era has officially arrived. The surgery itself goes perfectly. I mean, the surgeon is skilled, but the hospital...

How hidden undiagnosed biology stretches all the way back to infancy help learn about yourself. It actually broke the marriage—I mean, causing a complete inversion of how we view family dynamics. It really does. We instinctively put the parents' choices at the centre of the universe. We assume the child is just, well, a satellite reacting to their gravity. But the reality we are unpacking today sh...

They operate using naïve Bay classifiers or similar statistical models that simply map your input to the most severe possible outcome. Because a kiosk, like a physical terminal, is purposefully engineered for deployment in rural villages, dense urban poor areas, remote communities, and directly inside local pharmacies, it functions as a decentralised note of medical logic. We are tracing a stagger...

Treat others with respect, not because of who they are, but because of who you are. Dr Srivatsa offers humanity and even the medical establishment itself a choice. We must move away from the era of kill, conquer and rule—that mindset gave us the Rockefeller monopoly, the carpet bombing of our biomes, and the arrogance to think we could outsmart nature with a relentless barrage of chemicals. We nee...

You have a medical emergency. You rush your child to the local clinic because they're violently ill, right? You walk through those automatic doors. You see the sterile white walls. You know the medical posters, the staff in clinical uniforms, and your blood pressure drops just a fraction because you think we are in the safety net. You assume that the entire purpose of this building and everyone in...

You have a medical emergency. You rush your child to the local clinic because they're violently ill, right? You walk through those automatic doors. You see the sterile white walls. You know the medical posters, the staff in clinical uniforms, and your blood pressure drops just a fraction because you think we are in the safety net. You assume that the entire purpose of this building and everyone in...

When you are not feeling well, you go to consult a doctor. You know the basic social contract of healthcare is to consult a doctor, but instead greeted by a receptionist or a clinical assistant who barely even looks up from their computer and they just ask you to rattle off your symptoms while they click through this pre-printed, generic flow chart on their screen, following a rigid checklist base...

Hospitals are clean, but if you think about it, are they really clean? We've built our entire modern understanding of healthcare around that exact feeling of certain day oh absolutely it's deeply comforting for us go to sterile building an expert identifies the problem with some you know complex machine or lab test they hand you a pill and you get better we like things to be visible we want them c...

Anatomy of a Miracle: Decoding the Biological Antenna You know, usually when we talk about human consciousness, there's this, well, this unspoken expectation of containment, I guess you could call it. Right, like a closed system. Exactly. It's that classic computer analogy we've all been fed since grade school. You know, the Hardware is right there, encased inside your skull; the software is your...

The transfer of knowledge across generations was completely severed. And to enforce this newly created monopoly, these interests utilised the American Medical Association, the AMA. Which is crazy to think about now, right today, we think of the AMA as the ultimate. Objective authority on health, but its history in the early 20th century is incredibly aggressive. The AMA's leadership during this er...

“What If the Brain Doesn’t Think Alone? " A critical care doctor’s story of intuition, inherited cognition, and the system that could redefine diagnosis beyond artificial intelligence. From life-and-death decisions in critical care to the creation of a colour-coded system that challenges how medicine understands intelligence, diagnosis, and the human mind. We must rethink diagnosis: From Protocols...

"Throughout history, the most dangerous thing a person could do was tell an institution the truth about itself." Every generation produces a small number of individuals who, confronted with the full machinery of institutional power — the silence of colleagues, the threats of authority, the seduction of compliance — choose instead to speak. They do so knowing the cost. They do so anyway. This is a...

We have an innate preference for things that can be neatly categorised, codified, and simply placed into a predictable framework. We desire a spreadsheet for survival, really. Do we genuinely want everything to be in a spreadsheet? But then you step into the real lived experience of the human mind. Especially when we deal with things like neurodevelopment, intuition, or, you know, the invisible we...

A fever that rises in the afternoon or a small cut on your finger radiating faint heat. Yeah. Those mundane little moments, right? And you have to decide your next move. Do you stay home and rest it out? Do you push through and go to work, or do you walk into a crowded clinical waiting room? Exactly. And that single, totally mundane choice you make in front of your bathroom mirror is no longer jus...