On May 5,1982, on a hot afternoon, I entered the MGIMS medicine ward in Sevagram. Unlike the noisy government medical college, Nagpur where I was trained, this hospital sounded remarkably calm and tranquil. I ran into an unkempt resident in the medical ward doing a pleural tap at the patientโs bedside. With a stethoscope hanging …
Covid19. Evidence based management for hospitalised patients
I designed an evidence-based management protocol for managing patients admitted to our teaching hospital with Covid19. The concept was minimalist: excluding irrational, untested, unproven therapies and focusing only on those which have been shown to work in large randomised trials. Here is a YouTube link to the powerpoint presentation:
Covid: Make haste slowly
The novel anti-Covid medicines look promising and appealing, but I’d urge caution in interpreting the study results…
Covid and EBM- or lack of it…
The novel anti-Covid medicines look promising and appealing, but I’d urge caution in interpreting the study results…
Is Remdesivir a Rambaan remedy for Covid?
Last week, the district collector called a meeting. The meeting was attended, among other, by local MLAs, MPs, bureaucrats and doctors from the two medical colleges in the district. The second wave had peaked and more patients were seeking hospital admissions than the hospital could provide. ICU beds were at a premium and hospitals were …
A hand written note
They say that handwriting is more connected to the movement of heart. In this era of emojis and keyboard fonts, getting a beautifully hand written letter is really precious ! And that too from a very distinguished and respected teacher. This beautiful writing is a reflection of a beautiful heart and a kind soul
Numbers…
Numbers. Everybody loves them. We judge cricketers by the runs they accumulate, centuries they score, wickets they earn and the catches they grab. In sixties, a certain Kumar earned a sobriquet โJubilee Kumarโ because his almost every movie would end up running for as long as 25 weeks in theatres. And the charisma of Jeff …
MGIMS : Early Birds
MGIMS started in 1969. Not sure if Sevagram would offer them a post-graduation during the formative years, the students from the first four batches toiled tenaciously to obtain the coveted qualification by moving out after internship. Here are some interesting numbers from the 1969 to 1972 MGIMS batches. Eight MGIMS students, from the 1969-1972 batches, …
MGIMS and postgraduation
MGIMS began to offer post-graduation programs in all specialties in the late seventies. The 1974 batch was the first batch to benefitโ MGIMS gave this batch an opportunity to do post-graduation almost on a platter. Soon, 17 students from this batch metamorphosed as residents in their own alma mater. A handful of students from the …