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Pantoprazole: The Pill of Perpetual Peace

An hour from now, I will be sitting in the Medicine OPD, thinking about a drug that the whole world seems to prescribeโ€”and, not to sound holier than thou, I must admit that I do too. Pantoprazole. If thereโ€™s one drug that has quietly conquered the worldโ€”without firing a single shotโ€”itโ€™s this one. This modest …

Sevagram Wardha

The Two Englishmen Who Shaped My Destiny

Two Englishmen entered my life when I was a schoolboy in Wardha: Mr. Bachelor and Mr. Reginald Craddock. A long road runs from the Wardha railway station to Arvi Nakaโ€”today three kilometres of life and noiseโ€”full of doctors, banks, petrol pumps, shops and mangal karyalayas. In the mid-sixties, my father bought a house on this …

MGIMS Sevagram

Kastur Kapadiya

We walk past her statue, work in her hospital, and invoke her name often. But how many of us know who Kasturba really was before she became Gandhiโ€™s Ba? Ask anyone in Sevagram today, and chances areโ€”not one person might recall who she is. Or who she was. Until you pause and whisper her name. …

MGIMS Sevagram

A Night to Remember- Dammad, 1974

It was 1974 โ€” a year when Sevagram went to sleep early, and the nights belonged to the crickets and a handful of restless medical students in the JN Boys’ hostel. MGIMS was still young then. The world had no screens or smartphones to stare at, and evenings found purpose on a small wooden stage …

MGIMS Sevagram

Five Doctors, Five Roads Less traveled

In Sevagram, some medical students chose roads no one expected. They arrived at MGIMS in 1969 and the early 1970s with one aim. To become doctors. Yet life, with its quiet nudges and sudden jolts, steered them elsewhere. What unfolded were stories richer than fiction, each marked by the sacred soil of Sevagram. _________________________________________ Take …

MGIMS Sevagram

Down Memory Lane

Dr. Alhad Pimputkar (MGIMS Batch of 1971), the lead actor of the unforgettable Marathi drama ๐™†๐™–๐™ ๐™– ๐™†๐™ž๐™จ๐™๐™ฎ๐™–๐™˜๐™๐™–, takes us back to February 1974โ€”when this play brought the Sevagram campus alive and left the open-air auditorium ringing with laughter. Two of the playโ€™s brilliant actors, Dr. Sudhir Deshmukh (1970 batch) and Dr. Narayan Daware (1971 batch), …

Obituary

Dr. Anita Borges passed away

Dr. Anita Borges passed away yesterday. A heart attack took her from us. What a remarkable pathologist she was. I never met her, but in 2017 I watched her hour-long YouTube talk, โ€œ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ด๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ž๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜†๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ฎโ€. Professors are often stubborn, their egos rarely allowing them to acknowledge mistakes in public. She was the exception. She …

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Nostalgia. I use this word often. Perhaps it comes with age, a habit of looking back, of holding on to the past. But sometimes I wonder. Am I using it right? The ending -algia makes me pause. In medicine, algos means pain. Every day, I prescribe analgesics to my patients, medicines that take the algia …