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Heart Attack

From Healer to Healed

4 January 202631 March 2025 by SP Kalantri

Reading Time: 8 minutesFriday, 26 January 2024. Republic Day. Dawn broke, quiet and cold. I woke up at 5 a.m., as I always did. Ashwini had taken a late-night flight from Pune, delayed for hours. His plane finally touched down in Nagpur at 3:30 a.m. By the time he reached home, it was 5. I was already at … Read more

Categories Heritage & History Tags Gratitude, Heart Attack, Patient, Physician 4 Comments

Dr. S.P. Kalantri
Dr. S.P. Kalantri

Dr. S. P. Kalantri is a physician and teacher at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, where he has practised medicine and taught students for over four decades.

His writing reflects on the everyday life of medicine—how doctors learn, decide, err, and endure—drawing on evidence-based practice, institutional memory, and the realities of caring for patients in resource-limited settings.

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