Mrs Mani Behere—passed away today evening at her home in Sevagram. For over a decade, she had worked in our department of Psychiatry as a faculty. A kind-hearted woman—always sporting a genuine smile on her face, and exuding warmth and love—she fought a long battle with metastatic breast cancer and endured her illness with fortitude. …
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Dr (Mrs) Savita Borle
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 …
Dr ML Sharma
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 …
Dr ML Sharma
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 …
Cath Lab at MGIMS
Today afternoon, four patients with heart diseases underwent cardiac catheterization in the newly built Cath lab in our hospital. The new angiography suite is equipped with sophisticated technology that produces high resolution images with the lowest dose of radiation possible. This year, the hospital added a ten-bed intensive coronary care unit (ICCU) on the first …
Pankaj Khandelwal
It is difficult to believe that Pankaj Khandelwal (1978) is no more. Over the last couple of months, we shared so much on these pages, and his posts- full of his trademark chuckles are resurfacing in my mind, again and again. Wasn’t it only a fortnight ago that he had posted a very satisfying impression …
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 …
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
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. …
Not even ‘till death do we part
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 …
CAT has nine lives
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 …