Hi, I’m Dr. Aman Koul.
I’m an orthopaedic surgeon, currently a senior resident at Government Medical College & Hospital, Jammu — which is a polite way of saying I spend most of my week inside operating theatres, fixing the bones that trauma, time, or bad luck have broken.
I started The Bone Bulletin because of a pattern I kept noticing in clinic: patients leaving my OPD with a prescription, a follow-up date, and almost no real understanding of what happened to their body or why. Not because anyone failed to explain it — just because a 6-minute consultation was never going to be enough. This is the space where I try to close that gap.
Why I do this
Why does my knee still hurt after the X-ray came back “normal”? Is calcium enough for my bones? Will my child outgrow this posture? Do I really need surgery, or can this heal on its own? Every week I hear the same questions asked in different words.
The honest answers are rarely as simple as an Instagram reel makes them look, and rarely as frightening as a worried 2 a.m. Google search either. The Bone Bulletin is where I try to give you the answer I’d actually give a family member — grounded in evidence, not in what performs well online.
The credentials, briefly
I’ll keep this part short, because I know it’s not really why you’re here — but since it’s the reason you can trust what you read on this site:
- MBBS from Government Medical College, Bidar, Karnataka, followed by an MS in Orthopaedics from Government Medical College, Jammu.
- Currently a senior resident handling high-volume orthopaedic trauma — intramedullary nailing, forearm and tibia plating, and the full range of fracture care that comes through a government trauma centre.
- My research work includes a five-year institutional dataset study on orthopaedic procedures under India’s public health insurance scheme (PMJAY), and an ongoing systematic review examining how orthopaedic implant failure relates to how those implants are procured.
- I’m a founding member of the International Young Orthopaedic Forum (IYOF), a young surgeons’ collective built to give early-career orthopaedic surgeons a voice alongside established professional bodies.
- I regularly build and present detailed clinical teaching material at conferences — on subjects from subtrochanteric femur fractures to reconstructive options in complex knee replacement.
None of that makes me infallible, and nothing on this site replaces an actual examination by a doctor who can see and touch the joint in question. But it’s why, when I tell you something here, I’ve usually read the primary literature on it myself rather than repeating what everyone else online is repeating.
A few milestones along the way
Tap any milestone below for a bit more on it.
What this space is, and isn’t
The Bone Bulletin is not a replacement for medical care. It’s the explanation I wish every patient got time for — the “why” behind the “what to do,” written by someone who does this for a living, not someone paraphrasing a paraphrase.
If something you read here makes your own situation clearer, worries you, or raises a question you can’t find answered — that’s exactly what the Consultations page is for.
Outside the hospital
I’m someone who believes the same evidence-based thinking that guides my surgical decisions should guide the rest of life too — how I train, how I eat, and increasingly, how I think about animal welfare and the causes worth putting real effort behind. That’s a longer story for another page, but it’s part of why this site exists the way it does: built to last, not to trend.