One way to see the chorus of emergency angioplasty treatment of acute heart attack is with awe. Another is with utter frustrationโbecause in most cases it is unnecessary- John Mandrola recently summed up beautifully. A 2014 population based study from Sweden (J Am Coll Cardiol 2014; 64:1299-1306) shows that if people eat less, walk more, …
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SP Kalantri
Sample two histopathology reports of a specimen of chronic cholecystitis. The first one reads, โThe graceful, fragile gossamer folds of mucosa are completely altered in appearance, being loaded down by dense yellow opaque masses, much as a delicate birch tree might be weighed down by a load of snow.” The second one reads, โGrossly, the …
Dr Raman Sharma
Dr. Raman Sharma, third-year postgraduate resident in medicine at MGIMS (2014 batch), died on September 23, 2014 at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. After a month- long battle with cancer, and enduring almost every complication an onco surgery could breed, she left for heavenly abode. Her burgeoning career as a medical resident was eroded by a …
Dr. Manu Kothari
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 …
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 bhabhiโs 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 …
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