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Year: 2025

There is no answer, only silence

4 January 20261 January 2025 by SP Kalantri

Reading Time: 3 minutesShe stood there, eyes fixed on the motionless figure before her. Her brother, just 23, lay on the hospital bed. His eyes were shut. His body still, but his chest rose and fell with each shallow breath. The monitor beeped steadily, a reminder of the fragile line between life and death. She was three years … Read more

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Dr. S.P. Kalantri
Dr. S.P. Kalantri

Dr. S. P. Kalantri is a physician and teacher at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, where he has practised medicine and taught students for over four decades.

His writing reflects on the everyday life of medicine—how doctors learn, decide, err, and endure—drawing on evidence-based practice, institutional memory, and the realities of caring for patients in resource-limited settings.

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