Roll No. 101
General Practitioner
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Nagpur
On 9 September 1979, the day Manohar Kanadia opened his private clinic in the Lakadganj colony where he had lived for 23 years, he charged his first patient two and …
Roll No. 102
Pathologist
Tapash Kumar Saha has spent his professional life looking through a microscope — first as a student of pathology at Government Medical College, Nagpur, then as a teacher in Malaysia, …
Roll No. 103
General Practitioner
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Jalgaon Jamod
The road to Jalgaon Jamod, when Ajit Jadhao first rode it in 1980, was not much of a road at all. To reach the villages around it — Satpura range …
Roll No. 104
Community Medicine Specialist
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Kollam
The first girl from the class of 1973 to marry did so on 19 December 1977 — before she had taken her final MBBS practical examination. Vandana Kamdar married Ajay …
Roll No. 105
Haematologist
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Nagpur
The blood disorders that Dilip Gohokar first encountered as a resident at GMC Nagpur in the late 1970s were, by any measure, death sentences. Leukaemias and lymphomas were managed with …
Roll No. 106
General Practitioner
Dhulip Singh Tajne entered the world with a bit of local history behind him. Born on 12 May 1955 in Nimboli, Dhamangaon, he is the scion of a family that …
Roll No. 107
Physician
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Nagpur
When Harsha Sheorey's scooter met a truck during the final MBBS examinations in the late 1970s and he spent six months convalescing — depressed, his study momentum gone — it …
Roll No. 108
Physician
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Amravati
In January 2014, Harish Baheti was admitted as a patient. He had suffered an acute coronary syndrome — the same event he had spent three decades treating in others. He …
Roll No. 109
Cardiovascular Diseases, Nuclear Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Echocardiography
A Honeymoon with the ECFMG Devmani recalls it with a dry, affectionate wit. Two weeks after their wedding in Delhi, Sharad appeared for the ECFMG examination—and passed. “The honeymoon clearly …
Roll No. 110
Public Health Specialist
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Bhandara
Sudhakar Dhakite is a son of the soil, literally. Born in Narkhed—a town that sits ninety kilometres northwest of Nagpur—he was raised by a farmer. In those parts, you learn …
Roll No. 111
Physician
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Amravati
On his birthday, Padmakar Somvanshi does not accept gifts. He accepts blood. For nearly four decades, he has organised donation camps on 15 July each year, and the rule is …
Roll No. 112
Radiologist
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Pune
The thesis Rajendra Phadke wrote for his MD in Radiology was on the two-bath development of X-ray film. It was 1982. The technology that would eventually make that thesis a …
Roll No. 113
Surgeon
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Bhusawal
She had already spent five years putting other surgeons' patients to sleep when she decided she would rather be the surgeon. "I always wanted to be a surgeon," Alka Naik …
Roll No. 114
Primary Care Internist
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Cupertino
The senior physician at Worcester Memorial Hospital, Dr. Peter Levine, watched the young intern from Nagpur. It was her first day in the Medical ICU—a place of hissing ventilators, rhythmic …
Roll No. 115
Paediatrics
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Nagpur
The morning cycle ride to GMC Nagpur in 1973 was a small daily formation. Manohar Kanadia set out from Kamal Chowk. Gagan Panjwani joined from Jaripatka. Chandrashekhar Jambholkar pedalled out …
Roll No. 116
Nashik
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Nashik
The village of Khiroda sits 30 kilometres from Bhusawal in the Jalgaon district — small enough to have a school, a primary care centre, and not much else. The son …
Roll No. 117
Physician
The telegram arrived on 7 July 1973 — Rajendra Kokate's birthday. His parents handed it to him in Dabhadi, a village near Malkapur in Amravati district, and the news inside …
Roll No. 118
General Practitioner
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Nagpur
In September every year, the Central Government Health Service dispensary where Dilip Tikkas worked held a Hindi Week, and with it came a music competition. Dilip had taught himself to …
Roll No. 119
Anaesthesiologist
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London
Pradeep Desai will tell you, without much prompting, that he has made more catastrophic decisions than most of his batchmates and recovered from all of them. He says this with …
Roll No. 120
Physician
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New Delhi
For 17 of the 24 years Rajiv Garg spent at the ESI Hospital in Noida, the hospital was two kilometres from his home. He has mentioned this fact with a …
Roll No. 121
General Practitioner
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Akola
In Medshi — a village of perhaps a few thousand people on State Highway 204, 46 kilometres from Akola — a schoolmaster named Hatey raised his son to know two …
Roll No. 122
Ophthalmologist
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Rajkot
"I met the right people, at the right places and at the right time, and that has made all the difference." Sanjay Gadre chose Rajkot because it chose him back. …
Roll No. 123
Neurophysician
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Nagpur
In November 2014, at the main auditorium of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, Chandrashekhar Meshram was installed as National President of the Indian Academy of …
Roll No. 124
General Practitioner
Anand Patil never came to the reunions. He felt, he had told SP Kalantri, like a stranger among old friends. The years in Gadchiroli — the long hours in a …
Roll No. 125
Physician
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Bhandara
Mundhari is a village in Taluka Mohadi, 46 kilometres north of Bhandara, in the rice-farming belt of eastern Maharashtra. Deonath Nimje was born there to a farmer, grew up in …