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Dr. P. Y. Deshmukh: The Quiet Giant of Medicine

4 January 202612 February 2025 by SP Kalantri

Reading Time: 5 minutesBorn into the remote village of Vidul, Purushottam Deshmukh overcame a childhood of hardship to become a giant of medicine. This is a reflection on the quiet dignity and scholarly brilliance of a man who watched his dreams nearly slip away in the dust.

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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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