Science, Stories and Sevagram: A Physician-Teacher's Reflections
Reading Time: 15 minutesOn 17 September 2022, I was conferred Gifted teacher Award, named after my teacher Dr BS Chaubey. I was interviewed on the occasion of this award. Sir, we know you as a teacher but we would like to know about your childhood. Born on August 15 —I was the youngest of six siblings. My mother … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis morning I was asked by Dr NR Datta, head of the Radiation Oncology department of our hospital to talk on Ethical Challenges in Cancer management. I addressed the following issues in my Powerpoint Presentation. The audience- faculty, resident, technicians, nurses, and social workers- also shared the challenges that they see in their daily practice. … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDolo 650. Almost unheard of before Covid hit us, the brand became a name, the country began to associate paracetamol with. Data suggest that the consumption of painkillers shot up by 23% in India last year. Has the pandemic turned us into excessive pill-poppers? Devina Sengupta spoke to me, ET Prime’s Vikas Dandekar and ET’s … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMolnupiravir. Another drug that has created a lot of hype or hope among public. But does it really deliver what it promises?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBeginning 1969—and through 2015— fifteen MGIMS students have an alluring ancestry: their parents also graduated from MGIMS. Will having parents who spent their formative years in Sevagram inspire their children? Or will it completely freak them out? It can cut both ways. Being cut from the same Khadi could make life easy. And at times … Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 1958, Ram Mamaji was to get married in Barshi. Bai had already left for Barshi for her younger brother’s marriage with Asha, Ashok, JP and me- I was born a year ago. Pushpa Jiji and Om were left behind in the Bajaj Electricity home (near Durga talkies) in Wardha. Pushpa, just 12-year-old then, would … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe pressure of NEET PG has emptied classrooms. MBBS students feel that learning medicine while attending patients will not get them a postgraduate set. The process of training and learning for medical students has been deeply affected by NEET. How did NEET affect the training of medical students in India? It has decimated the joy … Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI delivered a keynote address on the occasion of the valedictory function of the 4th International Snakebite Awareness day organized by the Clinical Toxicology Unit and Poisons Information Center, Christian Medical College, Vellore. I spoke on “Challenges and prospects of snakebite management in India” in a virtual event conducted on September 18th, 2021.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKasturba Hospital. What, why, how, where and when? A PowerPoint presentation.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe ICMR has increasingly drawn criticism from India’s doctors and scientists, who have questioned its drug recommendations & lack of transparency on data related to variants. Countrywide, doctors started writing these prescriptions, which artificially inflated the cost for Covid management,” I said. “Big Pharma was laughing all the way to the bank and ultimately the … Read more