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March 20, 2018
I met Jonathan Fine for the first time in 2011. He was to travel back to Boston through Mumbai after a stint in Chattisgarh, where he had volunteered with Jan Swasthya Sahayog, the well-known rural hospital near Bilaspur. A friend suggested that since he was a doctor who had done pioneering work ...
October 17, 2017
Indian scientists are, by and large, known to lead dual lives – a life in the lab that demands a rigorous scientific attitude of questioning and critical analysis, and a diametrically opposite one in their private sphere where the same scientific attitude is thrown to the four winds without any c...
January 01, 2016
Dr Ranjit Roy Chaudhury passed away on October 27, 2015 at the age of 85, literally with his boots on. He breathed his last after having just arrived in Chennai to deliver a speech on pharmacovigilance at a local medical college hospital.
October 04, 2015
Dr Suniti Solomon, a mother, a wife, a medical professional, a professor, a scientist, an ethicist, and an advocate for rights, died on July 28, 2015, of cancer related complications at Chennai, India. She was 75.
April 24, 2015
Ajay Khare was not a hero. He was just an ordinary person like most of us, with extraordinary qualities. That is how I will remember him.
October 16, 2014
Dr. Bashir Mamdani hailed from Tanga in Tanzania. Like many others at the time, he came to India in search of education and graduated in medicine from the Seth GS Medical College and King Edward VII Memorial Hospital in Bombay. He obtained his MBBS in 1965.
January 01, 2015
Heady with an inflated sense of achievement on acquiring a medical seat, a new medical student often gets a rude shock in the morbid world of human anatomy. The unclaimed corpses of the homeless who inhabit our cities laid out on dissection tables, human parts stripped of their coverings, t...
October 01, 2013
In the early 1990s when this journal was in its infancy and struggling to establish itself, I used to enthusiastically show it to all those who I thought would be even remotely interested. I always carried copies and passed them on to colleagues, friends and family members. I then requested them ...
July 01, 2013
I was shocked and saddened to read the news that Dr Edmund Pellegrino, 92, professor emeritus of medicine and medical ethics and senior scholar at Georgetown University’s Kennedy Institute of Ethics, passed away on June 13, just nine days before his 93rd birthday.
July 01, 2009
Dr C M Francis who passed away in Trichur in Kerala on January 21, 2009 was a man of many accomplishments, whose professional life extended over a period of more than five decades. He made his mark in the areas of medical education, community health, health policy and planning, community based re...