Reflections on Medicine and Life by Dr. S.P. Kalantri
Dr. S.P. Kalantri Dr (Mrs) Lata Patil —Samir Patil’s (MGIMS Class of 1993) mother—died this morning of metastatic cancer in a private facility at Nagpur after fighting malignancy for more than a year. She was 71. She is survived by her husband, Dr.SM Patil—the well-known physician and two children- both doctors. Dr (Mrs) Lata Patil taught me Medicine … Read more
Dr (Mrs) Savita Borle passed away this afternoon after enduring a stormy illness. She was 53. Detected to have metastatic thyroid cancer a few months back, Mrs Borle faced her advanced cancer with remarkable poise and indomitable stoic. A dental surgeon by profession, she had been a faculty in Dental Surgery at MGIMS since the … Read more
Dr ML Sharma, one of the greatest teachers at MGIMS, passed away today morning. He died at his home after a prolonged illness. He was 85. Dr ML Sharma had taught Pharmacology to a generation of medical students and the batches from 1969 through 2000 can never forget the passion with which he taught his … Read more
The first time I met Anil was in the winter of 1973. In August 1973, I got into Government Medical College, Nagpur and used to commute from my room to the college on a second-hand bicycle. In November, as I returned from the Anatomy Dissection hall, I found that my cycle was missing from the … Read more
Dr ML Sharma, one of the greatest teachers at MGIMS, died at his home after a prolonged illness on August 10, 2015. He was 85. Associated with MGIMS almost right from its inception, Dr ML Sharma taught Pharmacology to a generation of medical students. Medical students at MGIMS (batches from the early 1970s to late … Read more