Dr. Manu Kothari, father of Vatsal Kothari (alumnus, MGIMS, 1985 batch and currently critical care specialist, Kokilaben Ambani Hospital, Mumbai) and emeritus Professor of Anatomy at the Seth GS Medical College, Mumbai died yesterday morning in Mumbai. He was 79. An unorthodox teacher and widely respected medical iconoclast, Dr. Kothari was well known for very …
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SP Kalantri
Cycling to GMC Nagpur
A day before, Sharad Jaitly wrote a beautiful description of the city bus that would take the teenagers from the class of 1973 from Western Nagpur to GMC in 1973. The bus, Sharad recalls, would start from Vayu Sena Nagar- at 6:00 am Lakshmi Rao would be the first student to get into the bus …
iPad at the point of care
Smartphones and iPads are the future of medicine. In 2004 we introduced hospital information system in our teaching hospital. We realized that one day, we shall move from the desktops to the laptops, and subsequently to iPads and smartphones. Digital technology, to be effective, needs to be at the point of care. It cannot distance …
Sunanda bhabhi
12 November 2011. A day that makes us looks back at Sunanda bhabhi’s life and the journey she has made. Amazing how time goes by! This day makes us walk down memory lane. In December 1983, when SP had come to Indore to meet Bhavana, he got to know what bhabhi is all about. Although …
On being a patient
Worldwide, an estimated three million coronary angiograms and angioplasties are performed each year. These interventions are used to look for blockages in coronary arteries and to open them with balloons and stents. Global Industry Analysts (2011) predict that by the year 2017, the global market of coronary angioplasty products is likely to be close to US$ 1.84 …
Statistics in Biomedical Research
How to use statistics and report..
How to Write a Paper?
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Dr BS Chaubey
Dr BS Choubey, Head, Department of Medicine (1972-83) and former Dean, GMC, Nagpur died Saturday morning following an inexplicable respiratory illness in a private nursing facility at Nagpur. He was 77. For the last two years, Dr Choubey was also struggling with severe and disabling diabetic neuropathy which did not let him walk unaided- he …
Dr BS Chaubey
This is not an elegy lamenting the collective loss of Dr Chaubey’s students and colleagues. We lost him on 20 November 2011, and we will be missing him immensely. I wish to highlight the superb qualities embodied in this extraordinary teacher- physician- the like of whom we might never see again. Born on 2 June …
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
She lay on the hospital bed- grateful to the doctors for having successfully fixed her broken bone. She had just been wheeled from the operating room to the ward and was looking forward to going home a day later. Her post-op orders read- nil by mouth for two hours and 2 litres of intravenous fluids. …