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When Her Turn Finally Came

4 January 20264 April 2025 by SP Kalantri

She was just 33. At first glance, she looked heavy. And she was—79 kilos. That’s not what we usually see. Most women who come to us are thin, often undernourished, their bodies shaped by years of poverty and hard work. But her weight was hiding something. A lump in her breast had grown quietly for … Read more

Categories Medical Practice Tags Breast Cancer, Diagnosis Delay, Ignorance, Palliation, Poverty Leave a comment

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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