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Manohar Kanadia
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…
Tapash Kumar Saha
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…
Ajit Jadhao
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 —…
Vandana Kamdar [Khanolkar]
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…
Dilip Gohokar
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…
Dhulip Singh Tajne
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…
Ramesh Prabhakar Mundle
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…
Harish Baheti
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…
Sharad Jaitly
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…
Sudhakar Dhakite
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,…
Padmakar Somvanshi
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…
Rajendra Phadke
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…
Alka Naik (née Desai)
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,”…
Sujata Bhalerao (née Sawangikar)
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…
Chandrashekhar Jambholkar
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…
Pramod Mahajan
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.…
Rajendra Kokate
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…
Dilip Tikkas
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…
Pradeep Desai
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…
Rajiv Garg
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…