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A clinical life,
with room for wonder.
Radiation oncology, philosophy, stories and poetry—held together by the practice of paying attention.
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Three ways into the notes.
Rectal Cancer
A guide to anatomy, staging and the role of radiotherapy.
Read the note →Essay · Medicine and AIWhen Experience Becomes Infrastructure
What it could mean to make clinical expertise more widely available.
Read the essay →Short story · KnowledgeThe Astronaut’s Disciple
A seeker discovers the difference between being told and seeing for himself.
Read the story →Map of the work
Scribbles from a life
of curious enquiry.Original writings by @sajudivakar
The work moves across three territories. They overlap constantly: medicine supplies the urgency, philosophy supplies the questions, and imagination supplies another way to see.
Learn the science
through its story.Original notes by @sajudivakar
Explore science and history →Clinical practice.
Biology. Physics.
Technology.
Academic radiation oncology writing for clinicians and trainees—disease management, radiobiology, radiation physics, planning and the reasoning that connects them.
Notes for clinicians and trainees →What happens
when machines
begin to know?
Another way
of knowing.Original writings by @sajudivakar
Some forms of truth resist explanation. They travel more faithfully as image, rhythm, character and silence.
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THE PERSON BEHIND THE NOTES
Dr Saju Divakar is a senior radiation oncologist, teacher and writer.
His clinical work centres on cancer care and on helping younger colleagues understand not only what we do, but why.
Outside medicine, he reads and writes about consciousness, Indian philosophy, science, geometry, memory and devotion. This site is where those lives meet.
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