Category post for doctors
Dr. Prema Dhanraj
In 1950 a little girl named Prema was born with a clear, melodious voice and dreams of becoming a singer. At the age of eight a kitchen stove exploded, covering half her body—especially her face and neck—in severe burns. She spent long months in Christian Medical College, Vellore, enduring fourteen reconstructive surgeries. Her voice was […]
Tapestry of India’s healthcare story
In the vast tapestry of India’s healthcare story—woven through the lives of the doctors who founded great institutions and received the nation’s highest civilian honours—there walks a quieter sisterhood. The nurses. They do not always stand in the bright lights of operating theatres named after Padma-decorated pioneers. Yet without them, those theatres would fall silent. […]
Dr Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy
Dr Duvvur Nageshwar ReddyPadma Shri, 2002 · Padma Bhushan, 2016 · Padma Vibhushan, 2025 — GastroenterologyThe first Indian doctor to receive all three Padma awards. Visakhapatnam, late 1950s. A boy from a house of pathologists wanted to know how petrol made a car move. He poured a little into a tin in the family garage, […]
Dr Jose Chacko PeriappuramPadma Shri, 2011 · Padma Bhushan, 2025 — Cardiothoracic Surgery
Dr Jose Chacko PeriappuramPadma Shri, 2011 · Padma Bhushan, 2025 — Cardiothoracic SurgeryThe man who gave Kerala its first transplanted heart — and India its first second chance. South Paravur, Ernakulam. A botanist’s son who took first rank in BSc Botany at St Thomas College, Pala, then walked into Government Medical College, Kottayam, and decided […]
Prof. (Dr) Ashok Kumar MahapatraPadma Shri, 2025 — Neurosurgery
Prof. (Dr) Ashok Kumar MahapatraPadma Shri, 2025 — NeurosurgeryThe village boy from Puri who separated two heads that the world said could not be parted. Biranarasinghpur, Puri district. Four uncles were engineers. His father, Nabakishore, wanted the same for the boy. Then an uncle in a white coat walked into the house, and the boy […]
Dr Budhendra Kumar Jain, Padma Shri, 2025 — Ophthalmology
Dr Budhendra Kumar JainPadma Shri, 2025 — Ophthalmology5 December 1948 – 27 February 2026The man who turned a twelve-bed clinic in a jungle into a factory of light. Satna, a business household. A child watching Saint Ranchhoddasji Maharaj’s eye camps — hundreds of cataracts cut in a week, in a place with no electricity, no […]
Dr Hemant Kumar, Padma Shri, 2025 — Nephrology
Dr Hemant KumarPadma Shri, 2025 — NephrologyBihar’s first DM nephrologist, and the man who treated kidneys as if they belonged to family. Jamalpur, Munger — a modest house. A schoolboy who went with his parents to hospitals and saw people waiting without hope. He decided then that medicine would be the way he served. MBBS […]
Dr (Prof.) Neerja BhatlaPadma Shri, 2025 — Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Gynaecologic Oncology
Dr (Prof.) Neerja BhatlaPadma Shri, 2025 — Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Gynaecologic OncologyThe first Indian to chair FIGO’s gynaecologic oncology committee — and the woman who spent thirty-five years trying to make cervical cancer unnecessary. Born 2 January 1959. MBBS from AIIMS Delhi in 1982, MD in 1985, faculty from 1989. She rose to Professor and […]
Prof. Soniya Nityanand, Padma Shri, 2025 — Clinical Haematology and Stem Cell Transplantation
Prof. Soniya NityanandPadma Shri, 2025 — Clinical Haematology and Stem Cell TransplantationIndia’s first woman bone-marrow transplant specialist — and the daughter who brought a second Padma Shri into the same Lucknow house. 6 September 1962, Lucknow. Her father, Dr Nitya Anand, had crossed from West Punjab at Partition and spent a lifetime at CDRI inventing […]
A book of lives.
In the winter of 2026, when the Republic Day honours were announced and later conferred by President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan, fifteen names from the world of medicine and healing stood out among the 131 Padma Awards. Two received the Padma Bhushan. Thirteen received the Padma Shri. Together they formed a living map of […]
Dr Kallipatti Ramasamy PalaniswamyPadma Shri, 2007 · Padma Bhushan, 2026 — Gastroenterology
Dr Kallipatti Ramasamy PalaniswamyPadma Shri, 2007 · Padma Bhushan, 2026 — GastroenterologyThe boy from Kallipatti who built North Chennai a stomach department — then spent forty years teaching the country how to look inside it without cutting it open. 15 March 1949, Kallipatti, Erode — an agricultural house, a remote village. MBBS from Mysore University […]
Dr Dattatreyudu Nori, Padma Shri, 2015 · Padma Bhushan, 2026 — Radiation Oncology
Dr Dattatreyudu NoriPadma Shri, 2015 · Padma Bhushan, 2026 — Radiation OncologyThe village boy from Mantada who taught the world to place radiation inside a tumour — and then came home to tell two Telugu states that some cancers need not arrive at all. 1947, Mantada, Krishna district. Schooling in Machilipatnam. MBBS from Kurnool Medical […]
Dr Armida Fernandez, Padma Shri, 2026 — Neonatology and Urban Public Health
Dr Armida FernandezPadma Shri, 2026 — Neonatology and Urban Public HealthThe mother of Indian neonatology — the woman who taught a municipal hospital how to keep a premature baby alive, then walked out of the air-conditioned ward and into Dharavi. Born Armida Menezes in Dharwad, 1942 or 1943, daughter of the Goan poet-civil servant Armando […]
Dr Guduru Venkat Rao, Padma Shri, 2026 — Surgical Gastroenterology
Dr Guduru Venkat RaoPadma Shri, 2026 — Surgical GastroenterologyThe Hyderabad boy who almost became a vet — then took an appendix out through the mouth, and taught a generation that a scar is not the price of a life. Born 15 June 1960, middle-class Hyderabad, one sister, three brothers. Hyderabad Public School, Ramanthapur, class of […]
Dr H. V. Hande, Padma Shri, 2026 — Medicine
Dr H. V. HandePadma Shri, 2026 — MedicineNinety-eight years old, three hours a day in Shenoy Nagar, still treating whoever walks in — and still covering the bus fare home. 28 November 1927, Coimbatore. One of ten children of a government surgeon under the Raj; ancestral roots in Kota Handattu, near Udupi, and Mangalore. School […]
Dr Padma Gurmet, Padma Shri, 2026 — Sowa-Rigpa (Medicine)
Dr Padma GurmetPadma Shri, 2026 — Sowa-Rigpa (Medicine)The Amchi’s son who was reluctant to inherit the pulse of the high desert — and then made that pulse an official system of Indian medicine. Born 15 April 1971, Ladakh. Before hospitals reached the plateau, healthcare lived in the family. His father was an Amchi — a […]
Dr Natesan Punniamurthy, Padma Shri, 2026 — Veterinary Medicine (Ethno-Veterinary Science)
Dr Natesan PunniamurthyPadma Shri, 2026 — Veterinary Medicine (Ethno-Veterinary Science)The farm boy from Vallam who taught a cow to heal with aloe, turmeric and lime — and taught a nation that clean milk begins in a clean udder, not a bottle of antibiotic. 6 March 1957, Vallam village, Thanjavur. Agrarian house. School in Thanjavur and […]
Dr Kewal Krishan Thakral, Padma Shri, 2026 — Ayurvedic Surgery (Shalya–Shalakya)
Dr Kewal Krishan ThakralPadma Shri, 2026 — Ayurvedic Surgery (Shalya–Shalakya)The Partition child who made a medicated thread, and a small puncture at the ear, acceptable to a country that had almost forgotten its own surgeons. Born 10 October 1938, Sargodha — then British India, now Pakistan. The family crossed in 1947 and rebuilt in Yamunanagar. […]
Dr Palkonda Vijay Anand Reddy, Padma Shri, 2026 — Oncology
Dr Palkonda Vijay Anand ReddyPadma Shri, 2026 — OncologyThe Palamuru boy who turned down a London job, came home after his father died, and spent three decades telling parents that even the eye can grow a cancer — and that a white glow in a photograph can still be caught in time. Born 20 October […]
Dr Prateek Sharma, Padma Shri, 2026 — Gastroenterology
Dr Prateek SharmaPadma Shri, 2026 — GastroenterologyThe Vadodara graduate who made Barrett’s oesophagus a language the world could share — Prague criteria on the scope, risk on the page — and then came home, briefly, to take a medal for a life spent in Kansas City. Born in Chandigarh; raised in Vadodara. Parents from Punjab […]
Dr Ramchandra Godbole and Smt Suneeta Godbole, Padma Shri, 2026 — Medicine (joint award)
Dr Ramchandra Godbole and Smt Suneeta GodbolePadma Shri, 2026 — Medicine (joint award)Seven days after the wedding they left Maharashtra for Barsur. The forest called him Doctor Bhaiya. She learned Gondi and Halbi so the women would not have to speak through a stranger. He is a BAMS graduate from Satara. She took her MSW […]
Prof. Shyam Sundar, Padma Shri, 2026 — Medicine (Infectious Diseases / Kala-azar)
Prof. Shyam SundarPadma Shri, 2026 — Medicine (Infectious Diseases / Kala-azar)The Muzaffarpur boy who gave a neglected fever a strip test, an oral pill, and a single drip — and watched the case count fall from tens of thousands to a few hundred. Born 30 November 1953, Muzaffarpur. District school. Banaras Hindu University for everything […]
Dr Suresh Hanagavadi, Padma Shri, 2026 — Medicine (Haemophilia care)
Dr Suresh HanagavadiPadma Shri, 2026 — Medicine (Haemophilia care)The Class 9 boy outside a Harihar OPD whose uncle said, This is why you must become a doctor — and who spent the first internship salary registering a society so no family would lose someone for lack of care. Severe haemophilia B from childhood. Mother a […]
Prof. (Dr) Saroj Mandal, Padma Shri, 2026 — Interventional Cardiology
Prof. (Dr) Saroj MandalPadma Shri, 2026 — Interventional CardiologyThe Kolkata unit head who put twenty-two pacemakers in in nine hours on an ordinary working day at SSKM — and spent the rest of the years taking the same urgency to the village by wire. Born 15 September 1967. MBBS, University of Calcutta, 1994. MD Medicine. […]
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Roshen Master
Pune in the early 1950s still treated psychiatry as something whispered about in corridors. Hospitals had wards. Families had secrets. Women doctors were rare enough. A woman who wanted to sit across from patients in her own consulting room, listen to their fears, and charge a fee for it? That was almost unthinkable. Roshen Master […]
Caesarean rate
Dr. Ruma Satwik still remembered the smell of the sugarcane fields outside the little primary health centre in rural Maharashtra. It was 2000. She was young, newly posted, and she delivered eighteen babies that year. “Most of them never even came here,” she told a junior resident last week, stirring her tea in the staff […]
The Price of Being a Doctor
The Price of Being a DoctorThere is a strange contradiction at the heart of medicine.A patient may walk into a doctor’s room carrying years of pain, fear and uncertainty. The doctor may spend years learning how to understand that suffering, another decade developing judgement and experience, and then several more years building the hospital, clinic […]
Swami Sivananda Saraswati
A Book That Changed a Doctor(The moment Dr. Kuppuswami became Swami Sivananda Saraswati) In Malaya—today’s Malaysia—Dr. Kuppuswami was no ordinary physician. Banks opened on holidays for him. Trains waited. Steamers delayed departure until he boarded. He dressed in fine silks, collected gold rings, gemstones and watches, kept typewriters, gramophones and harmoniums at home. He treated […]
Dr K.C. Tripathi
Sultanpur did not lose a doctor. It lost the man who taught a small city that a failing heart need not travel to Lucknow to be saved. When a young K.C. Tripathi returned from King George’s Medical University with an M.D. in Medicine and a gold medal, well-wishers were blunt. “You’ve done enough,” they said. […]
Doctor death
They said the year left India with a habit of remembering in many mouths at once. One voice is never enough. So the story of Devendra Kumar Sharma is told the same way: not as a single monster’s confession, but as the overlapping testimonies of people who knew the healer before the healer vanished, and […]
Krishna: A Life of Duty Without Rest
The dates below follow a popular traditional chronology that works backward from the Puranic start of Kali Yuga (often given as 18 February 3102 BCE) and from texts that say Krishna lived about 125 years and that the Kurukshetra war came when he was about eighty-nine. Historians do not treat these Gregorian conversions as proven […]
Roshen Master
Pune in the early 1950s still treated psychiatry as something whispered about in corridors. Hospitals had wards. Families had secrets. Women doctors were rare enough. A woman who wanted to sit across from patients in her own consulting room, listen to their fears, and charge a fee for it? That was almost unthinkable. Roshen Master […]
Dr. Dipak Dhar Choudhury
Dr Dipak Dhar Choudhury — also written as Dr D.D. Choudhury or Choudhary — is not a celebrity surgeon of multiplex hospitals. He is the quieter kind of Indian doctor whose name lives in association files, blood-bank registers, and the memory of a state that did not exist when he first hung his stethoscope in […]
Surplus
India has officially hit a record 1,36,939 MBBS seats across 823 medical colleges. We are supposedly solving the national doctor shortage. However, if you read the microscopic fine print, a far darker reality emerges. Of the 9,911 shiny new seats rolled out this year, a modest 2,111 belong to government colleges, while a staggering 7,800 […]
Missing link
There is a missing link between specialists and patients in India due to the absence of a primary coordinating doctor or General Practitioner (GP) who handles long-term care management and brings all medical records together. Key Elements of the “Captain of the Ship” ConceptCentral Oversight: A single doctor oversees the patient’s entire healthcare journey rather […]
सफ़ेद कोट
सफ़ेद कोट की जेब में रखी ज़िंदगी मेडिकल कॉलेज के दिनों में लगता था, बस रेज़िडेंसी मिल जाए, तो ज़िंदगी मुकम्मल हो जाएगी। रेज़िडेंसी में लगा, एक विशेषज्ञ बन जाऊँ, तो शायद सुकून मिल जाए। फिर लगा, नाम हो, पहचान हो, मरीज़ों की लंबी कतार हो, सम्मेलनों के मंच हों, किताबों में मेरा नाम छपे, […]
The Seven Medical Sins
The Seven Medical Sins — first laid out by the sharp-tongued British physician Richard Asher in 1949 — still haunt hospital corridors, outpatient clinics, and Zoom consults today. They are not dramatic scandals or rare malpractice headlines. They are the quiet, everyday failings that turn good doctors into slightly less good ones, and patients into […]
Time frames
Approximate time frames (birth–death ranges), working backwards from your father Krishan/Kishen Chand (1935–1983). These are rough estimates only, based on typical historical generation intervals of about 25–30 years (age of father at the birth of the relevant son) in traditional Indian families, plus average adult lifespans of roughly 55–70 years for those who survived childhood […]
Time frames
Approximate time frames (birth–death ranges), working backwards from your father Krishan/Kishen Chand (1935–1983). These are rough estimates only, based on typical historical generation intervals of about 25–30 years (age of father at the birth of the relevant son) in traditional Indian families, plus average adult lifespans of roughly 55–70 years for those who survived childhood […]
freedom for doctors
India celebrates its Independence Day every year on 15th August, commemorating its freedom from British rule in 1947. It is the day that all Indians pay homage to our freedom fighters and leaders for their immense contribution that led to freedom of our country. In this democratic country, everyone from a homeless person to the […]
Various perpectives on clinical establishment act
Clinical Establishment Act . . . The vedas have long ago stated the fact that in kaliyug the do gooders would be hounded out and the the corrupt would flourish.The clinical establishment act seem to fulfill this profesy not in part but in full measures There are stringent and huge monitory penalties for non registration […]
The Real Problem With Medical Internships
The Real Problem With Medical Internships Sandeep Jauhar Sandeep Jauhar JULY 1, 2015 Credit Erik Carter APPROXIMATELY 26,000 newly minted doctors across the United States will begin their internships today. For many, this legendarily grueling year will be the most trying time of their professional lives. Most will spend it in a state of perpetual exhaustion, […]
ethics*zero=?
Ethics x Zero =?© Dr. Rajas Deshpande An NRI businessman was held with his family on an European airport as his travel agency had used fake credit cards, in spite of him paying them in cash. The airline threatened to have the NRI arrested there. In panic, he called an Indian lawyer through a friend […]
jobs most dangerous to your health
Read on to find out which jobs have the most potential to damage your health. Max Nisen contributed to an earlier version of this post. . Radiologists Overall unhealthiness score: 52.8 What they do: Examine and diagnose disorders and diseases using X-rays and radioactive materials. Top three health risks: 1. Exposure to radiation: 87 2. […]
PPH
Postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) accounts for around 28% of maternal deaths in developing countries1—that is, for over 125,000 deaths each year2. There are about 125 million births annually in the developing world3, so the risk of maternal death from PPH is approximately 1 in 1000 deliveries there. Here in Britain the risk of death from obstetric […]
multiple drug combination ban
Delhi high court has already given a stay order on the ban of fixed dose combination drug when at least 14 pharma giants filed a petition against the notification. Many questions were raised from pharma side as well from different other section of healthcare industry –What is the rationale for banning the drugs that are […]
D|D of tremors
Tremor, an involuntary, rhythmic, oscillatory movement of a body part, is the most common movement disorder encountered in clinical practice. Rest tremors occur in a body part that is relaxed and completely supported against gravity. Action tremors occur with voluntary contraction of a muscle and can be further subdivided into postural, isometric, and kinetic tremors. […]
old man and the ward!
This i read on a friends fathers blog Mr. J.k Chandana i hope u all read it When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in an Australian country town, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through his meagre […]
“Is Med School Worth the Dollars, Stress, and Decade Spent in Training?”
“Is Med School Worth the Dollars, Stress, and Decade Spent in Training?” I hear this question a lot. Even some of my most capable and well-adjusted friends and fellow medical students have confided to me that in the midst of medical school, they questioned whether this was the right profession for them and whether medical […]
deemagclinic
deemag and chest clinic 