Information and Communication technology in Medicine
My talk in Pune…
Naushadnama
Last week, I re-discovered the golden era of Hindi film music. I picked up a book that took me to an era when the rhythm was the king. I read the entire book—cover to cover— and learnt a great deal about Naushad, the last Mughal Musician and his contemporaries: C Ramchandra, Anil Biswas, Shankar-Jaikishan, Kalyanji-Anandji, … Read the essay
Cricket records have a very short half life!
How long do the records in International Cricket last? And how quickly do they tumble? Today, at Auckland, Martin Guptill’s 19-ball record for fastest New Zealand fifty lasted barely for 20 minutes. He got out in the seventh over; in came Colin Munro, and he began to treat Sri Lankan bowlers with a ferocity that … Read the essay
Dr (Mrs) Lata Patil
Dr (Mrs) Lata Patil —Samir Patil’s (MGIMS Class of 1993) mother—died this morning of metastatic cancer in a private facility at Nagpur after fighting malignancy for more than a year. She was 71. She is survived by her husband, Dr.SM Patil—the well-known physician and two children- both doctors. Dr (Mrs) Lata Patil taught me Medicine … Read the essay
Dr (Mrs) Savita Borle
Dr (Mrs) Savita Borle passed away this afternoon after enduring a stormy illness. She was 53. Detected to have metastatic thyroid cancer a few months back, Mrs Borle faced her advanced cancer with remarkable poise and indomitable stoic. A dental surgeon by profession, she had been a faculty in Dental Surgery at MGIMS since the … Read the essay