SP Kalantri
SP Kalantri
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. …
Taori sir and bhabhi. Forty years back, an arranged marriage brought you together. Sir, you joined the department of Biochemistry in a medical school that was beginning to take roots in Sevagram. Bhabhi chose to be a homemaker. Your children went to the same medical school where you served as a faculty for three decades …
Every few years, our CAT scan machine drops dead- only to purr again. Bought about 10 years back, the machine has scanned about 20,000 heads, chests and bellies. At times, for some inexplicable reasons, the CAT stands still- a CATastrophic event in the hospital. And as engineers-flown from Bangalore- lay their hands on the CAT …
Smart ties, black bags and glib tongues. It has been more than a month since we saw this combination in our hospital. Few weeks back, we decided to say no to medical representatives on campus. We took this measure to counter the growing perception that interaction between doctors and medical sales representatives was harming our …
Dr Sushila Nayar, former Union Health Minister, Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram and an eminent Gandhian, passed away peacefully in Sevagram. Born in Kunjah (District Gujarat), Pakistan, she was brought up in a rural middle class family. Soon after her graduation from Lady Hardinge Medical Col- lege, her …