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    The doctor will see you now, on your timeline

    Illustration: Rahul Awasthi

    Synopsis

    Doctors embrace Twitter and Instagram to fight misinformation around Covid-19 and help the people. But even they cannot seem to escape the ugly side of social media, the vicious trolling

    Dipshikha Ghosh’s Twitter following has shot up in the past few months. It wasn’t always like that. In March, the critical care medicine specialist from Kolkata gained a grand total of six followers, according to social media statistics and analytics platform Social Blade.That changed in April.As India saw a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases amid a rampant second wave, Ghosh, 32, also witnessed the first major jump in followers--over 4,800 at one
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