Pavithra Natarajan's Avatar

Pavithra Natarajan

@pavithra.bsky.social

Infectious Diseases Physician, Writer, Health Editor at Pangyrus. British-Indian, heart is in London, now lives in Boston

13 Followers  |  8 Following  |  8 Posts  |  Joined: 21.05.2025
Posts Following

Posts by Pavithra Natarajan (@pavithra.bsky.social)

The Living Encounter the Dead | Pangyrus I learned how to tag, bag and transport a body to the morgue before I ever took care of a living patient. I had been excited to meet him, Martin /Mr. Martin ...

Here is the essay, published in time for Halloween 🎃
www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir...

31.10.2025 16:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
October Newsletter | Pangyrus Litmag

In September I became Health Editor of Pangyrus Literary Magazine. Today the first piece I was involved with accepting and editing for the magazine was published! I feel a sense of pride akin to when my children do something awesome.
mailchi.mp/pangyrus/aug...

31.10.2025 16:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you for sharing!

21.07.2025 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
This is Skin Color | Pangyrus On Skin Color Markers It begins in a kitchen, my kitchen, three years ago, over a rushed, trying-to-get-to-school-on-time breakfast. We recently moved from ...

Thankful to @pangyrus.bsky.social for publishing my personal essay on racism, This is Skin Colour
www.pangyrus.com/essay-memoir...

18.07.2025 14:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Returning to triathlons in midlife helped me return to myself Pavithra Natarajan ran triathlons in her 20s, before she lost herself in the quotidian of being a wife and mother. Years passed, then a chance encounter nudged awake something inside her and she regis...

In a lovely coincidence, two essays I wrote have published today! @wbur.org @cogwbur.bsky.social Cognoscenti published my essay about my triathlon summer last year, culminating in an adventure triathlon in Cape Cod. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

18.07.2025 14:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

Summertime!

02.07.2025 22:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image

Thankful to @newsweek.com for publishing my essay. I preferred my original title, which was "Viruses don't care who you voted for". I was thinking about all the wonderful, hardworking colleagues I had the honour to work with at CDC, and in the DRC, as I wrote this.

www.newsweek.com/why-cuts-usa...

01.07.2025 22:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Post image Post image

On the premise, "You get better at what you do" I set myself a goal of 21 days skiing this last season. I skied 24 days! Lots of day trips with 5am starts. Lots of mum and daughter time, family time, and so many fabulous people along the way. Photo credit: Kathleen Dooher

01.07.2025 22:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0