Reflections on Medicine and Life by Dr. S.P. Kalantri
From the Classroom We Shared A talk about dying is supposed to end when the microphone goes off. Mine didn’t. I wrote last week about what it took to get in front of a camera in the first place — the failing light, the dog, the whole clumsy business of learning new tools at seventy. … Read the essay
Four minutes into a talk about how to die well, the light went out. A physician’s account of scripting, filming, and uploading a talk on ageing and end-of-life conversations for family physicians across India — and what the gadgetry, at seventy, turned out to teach him.
Every MGIMS alumnus from the first ten batches remembers him — not for his tea or his aloo bondas, but for the quiet generosity that saw students through lean months, with no ledger and no interest.
More medicine is not always better medicine. A physician on why scanning healthy hearts often does more harm than the disease it’s hunting for.
“I’ve done more than 30,000 tubectomies,” my classmate said over tea in Sevagram today. The number hung in the air between us. We are both from GMC Nagpur’s 1973 batch. But my friend wasn’t a postgraduate gynaecologist or a surgeon — just a plain MBBS doctor. In the early 1980s, he quit his surgical postgraduate … Read the essay