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Numbers…
Numbers. Everybody loves them. We judge cricketers by the runs they accumulate, centuries they score, wickets they earn and the catches they grab. In sixties, a certain Kumar earned a sobriquet “Jubilee Kumar” because his almost every movie would end up running for as long as 25 weeks in theatres. And the charisma of Jeff …
MGIMS : Early Birds
MGIMS started in 1969. Not sure if Sevagram would offer them a post-graduation during the formative years, the students from the first four batches toiled tenaciously to obtain the coveted qualification by moving out after internship. Here are some interesting numbers from the 1969 to 1972 MGIMS batches. Eight MGIMS students, from the 1969-1972 batches, …
MGIMS and postgraduation
MGIMS began to offer post-graduation programs in all specialties in the late seventies. The 1974 batch was the first batch to benefit— MGIMS gave this batch an opportunity to do post-graduation almost on a platter. Soon, 17 students from this batch metamorphosed as residents in their own alma mater. A handful of students from the …
MGIMS: What is in a name?
Many MGIMS alumni began to get curious and asked me if I could share the top 10 last name list. I lowered the bar and picked up last names with at least 10 frequencies. Forty seven last names – MGIMS has a total of 2213 unique last names- occupied the most common last name list. …
What is in a name? Plenty!
“What is in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Shakespeare’s famous quote is a cliché – a tired, stale phrase or idiom that, because of overuse, has lost its impact. Names matter. A name identifies us. It does so much more: it is our public face. Over the last …
Palliative care at Sevagram
Two years ago, Dr. Sankha Mitra—an oncologist who is keen to reduce inequity, injustice and alleviate healthcare-induced poverty— had visited Sevagram. He spoke a sentence that was an eye-opener for the audience. “In India, the poor die in agony in neglect; the middle-class die in agony in ignorance and the rich die in agony on …
Repairing the heart defects
One in 200. A chance that a mother would deliver a baby with heart disease. And some of these heart defects are serious enough to warrant early intervention. A piece of good news is that some holes in the heart, stenosed valves and abnormal connections between the great arteries can be repaired without open heart …
First cardiac Surgery at MGIMS
On September 4, Dr. Pankaj Pohekar, the cardiac surgeon and his team performed MGIMS’s first heart valve replacement surgery. He replaced two heart valves with mechanical ones. Govind (name changed) a 48-year-old farmer from Sindi (Railway) in Wardha district was recently detected to have a heart valve that barely opened and another valve that leaked …
Amrita gets a gold medal
How should a father react when his daughter achieves a distinction that is a dreamer’s delight? How does he control his emotions when he reads a message that not only has his daughter emerged a winner in an examination that is known to break many hearts but has also got the first rank in the …