Reflections on Medicine and Life by Dr. S.P. Kalantri
𝗟𝗮𝗹𝗶 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗞𝗮𝗹𝗶: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁 𝗗𝗼𝗴𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 Thirty years ago, Dr. SK Ghosh served as the professor and head of the Department of Anatomy at MGIMS. He had a sharp wit and a kind heart that endeared him to those around him. His wife, Mrs. Laxmi, was a woman of remarkable … Read the essay
The early 80s were a golden era for the Medicine department at MGIMS, and it was all thanks to the “P’s” – 𝗞𝗣, 𝗝𝗣, 𝗦𝗣, 𝗢𝗣, and 𝗔𝗣 Dr. Kamal Pervez (KP) and Dr. JP Sharma (JP) were dynamic young lecturers who were always in tune with their patients. SP Kalantri (SP), a senior registrar … Read the essay
The MD thesis—a daunting challenge that separates the strong from the faint-hearted. It is like a visa that grants access to the MD examination, a grueling rite of passage filled with challenges and obstacles. As the deadline looms, the pressure intensifies, and the postgraduate students start desperately hunting for two players—a skilled statistician to generate … Read the essay
It was a scorching afternoon on May 4th, 1982, when I first stepped into the medicine ward at MGIMS in Sevagram. Unlike the bustling government medical college in Nagpur where I had trained, this hospital felt serene and peaceful. As I walked in, I noticed a dishevelled resident performing a pleural tap at a patient’s … Read the essay
A few years ago, I was invited to speak about snakebites at an annual conference in Nagpur. As a physician who had treated hundreds of patients with venomous snakebites, I was excited to share my experience. On that Sunday morning, as I arrived at the conference hall 15 minutes early, I found only two people … Read the essay