Reflections on Medicine and Life by Dr. S.P. Kalantri
Despite more than a half century of proclamations on primary healthcare, most rural facilities in India continue to lack enough providers, equipment and infrastructure to offer effective and efficient care. In the latest effort to address this inequitable distribution the union health and family welfare minister announced a plan requiring doctors to practise in rural … Read more
Dear Friends, It was the best of times; it was not the worst of times. My Berkeley stint is fast approaching an end. On May 24, I will touch Sevagram! A year at Berkeley – educating, entertaining, exciting and at times exasperating- would come to an end! Last fall, I came to the University of … Read more
How do medical students learn to make impossible decisions every day? They can share their problems with their colleagues and seniors, and learn decision-making skills which will carry over into their practice once they graduate. At the MGIMS, a group of residents and interns has started informal discussions of case study scenarios. The idea is … Read more
Dr Sushila Nayar, former Union Health Minister, Director of the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram and an eminent Gandhian, passed away peacefully in Sevagram. Born in Kunjah (District Gujarat), Pakistan, she was brought up in a rural middle class family. Soon after her graduation from Lady Hardinge Medical Col- lege, her … Read more
The Academy of Medical Sciences, Nagpur organised a workshop on medical ethics on September 8 and 9, at the Udyog bhavan, Nagpur. Fed up with several ‘me too workshops’, the Academy wanted to do something different this year. Several doctors felt that medical ethics was a topic worth discussing in today’s times. However, some members … Read more