Dr. B.S. Chaubey. A name that evoked both awe and trepidation. He was fire and iceโblazing with intensity, chilling with his stare, his mind a scalpel that could slice through the most complex diagnoses in a few minutes. For twenty-five years, he reigned over the Department of Medicine at GMC Nagpur, shaping generations of physicians. …
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๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐: ๐๐ก๐๐ง ๐ฏ๐ฌ. ๐๐จ๐ฐ
Nostalgia has a way of sneaking up on you. You try to avoid comparing the “good old days” to the present, but somehow, you end up doing it anyway. The younger generation hates it. They roll their eyes when we compare the 60s and 70s to today. But as you age, those comparisons just happenโwhether …
๐ก๐ผ๐๐๐ฎ๐น๐ด๐ถ๐ฎ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐: ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐
After spending four decades in Sevagram, I often find myself reflecting on the past, comparing it to the present, and pondering what the future holds. Itโs one of my most cherished pastimesโa price I pay for the salt that now outnumbers the pepper on my scalp. The conversation begins with medical students. We often blame …
๐ฆ๐๐ฟ๐๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ ๐ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐๐ฎ๐ด๐ฟ๐ฎ๐บ: ๐ง๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ง๐๐ฝ๐ถ๐๐๐
The MD thesisโa daunting challenge that separates the strong from the faint-hearted. It is like a visa that grants access to the MD examination, a grueling rite of passage filled with challenges and obstacles. As the deadline looms, the pressure intensifies, and the postgraduate students start desperately hunting for two playersโa skilled statistician to generate …
๐ฆ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ผ ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐บ๐ฝ๐๐ ๐๐ฎ๐น๐น: ๐๐ฒ๐๐๐ผ๐ป๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฑ
A few years ago, I was invited to speak about snakebites at an annual conference in Nagpur. As a physician who had treated hundreds of patients with venomous snakebites, I was excited to share my experience. On that Sunday morning, as I arrived at the conference hall 15 minutes early, I found only two people …
The Ghost Who Writes: A Tale of PGs and Thesis Ghostwriters
On a sunny afternoon at the hostel of a medical college, a third-year postgraduate student appeared visibly worried as he skipped his lunch. He approached a group of his senior friends, who were now senior residents in the same hospital. PG: “May I ask you something? Two years ago, I submitted my thesis protocol to …
Medical Education: Does language matter?
Twenty-four medical schools in Madhya Pradesh have made an offer that makes one sit up and notice. Now the teachers can teach and assess medical students using medical textbooks in Hindi. Students have also an option of writing their exams in Hindi. For first MBBS students, the state government has developed, and recently released Hindi …
BS Chaubey Gifted Teacher Award
On 17 September 2022, I was conferred Gifted teacher Award, named after my teacher Dr BS Chaubey. I was interviewed on the occasion of this award. Sir, we know you as a teacher but we would like to know about your childhood. Born on August 15 โI was the youngest of six siblings. My mother …
Has NEET Affected Training of Medical Professionals?
The pressure of NEET PG has emptied classrooms. MBBS students feel that learning medicine while attending patients will not get them a postgraduate set. The process of training and learning for medical students has been deeply affected by NEET. How did NEET affect the training of medical students in India? It has decimated the joy …
What should Siddhartha Mukherjee do to earn a promotion?
I chanced to read Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjeeโs profile on Simon and Schuster website this evening. โSiddhartha Mukherjee is a cancer physician and researcher. He is the author of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in general nonfiction. Mukherjee is an assistant professor of medicine at Columbia …