Reflections on Medicine and Life by Dr. S.P. Kalantri
Documenting the legacy of MGIMS, Sevagram heritage, and medical history.
Numbers. Everybody loves them. We judge cricketers by the runs they accumulate, centuries they score, wickets they earn and the catches they grab. In sixties, a certain Kumar earned a sobriquet “Jubilee Kumar” because his almost every movie would end up running for as long as 25 weeks in theatres. And the charisma of Jeff … Read the essay
MGIMS started in 1969. Not sure if Sevagram would offer them a post-graduation during the formative years, the students from the first four batches toiled tenaciously to obtain the coveted qualification by moving out after internship. Here are some interesting numbers from the 1969 to 1972 MGIMS batches. Eight MGIMS students, from the 1969-1972 batches, … Read the essay
MGIMS began to offer post-graduation programs in all specialties in the late seventies. The 1974 batch was the first batch to benefit— MGIMS gave this batch an opportunity to do post-graduation almost on a platter. Soon, 17 students from this batch metamorphosed as residents in their own alma mater. A handful of students from the … Read the essay
Many MGIMS alumni began to get curious and asked me if I could share the top 10 last name list. I lowered the bar and picked up last names with at least 10 frequencies. Forty seven last names – MGIMS has a total of 2213 unique last names- occupied the most common last name list. … Read the essay
“What is in a name? A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Shakespeare’s famous quote is a cliché – a tired, stale phrase or idiom that, because of overuse, has lost its impact. Names matter. A name identifies us. It does so much more: it is our public face. Over the last … Read the essay