Reflections on Medicine and Life by Dr. S.P. Kalantri
Documenting the legacy of MGIMS, Sevagram heritage, and medical history.
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 … Read more
She lay on the hospital bed, grateful to the doctors for successfully fixing her broken bone. Just wheeled from the operating room to the ward, she looked forward to going home the next day. Her post-op orders were simple: nil by mouth for two hours and two liters of intravenous fluids. The surgeon also instructed … Read more
Accreditation. Never before on MGIMS campus, did this word buzz as much as it did in the last week of April. Accreditation, for dummies, is a peer-review process that assures the quality of the education students receive. MGIMS believes that accreditation is an important mechanism to assess, evaluate, and improve the quality of the programs … Read more
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it … Read more
Reminiscences- this weekend was filled with them. On December 19- thirty years since the first resident obtained her MD Medicine from the institute -a third of the hundred residents from the department of medicine gathered in Sevagram. Beginning 1979, exactly hundred residents had completed their MD training in the Medicine department, a number that aroused … Read more