A Super-Speciality Healthcare Landmark At Shibpur, Howrah.
Nobody asks about biomedical waste when they bring a relative in for a fever or schedule a minor surgery. Fair enough — it's not dinner-table conversation. But every used syringe,…
There's this patient. Mr. Das. Not his real name, obviously. He came to us maybe eight years ago now. Late fifties. On dialysis for a little over a year. And…
If a baby is born at 32 weeks, the weight can be approximately 1.6 kilograms. It is about the average weight of a large cooking oil bottle. When parents see…
Most people with shoulder pain don't come in right away. They wait. A dull ache after carrying groceries gets called "slept on it wrong." Trouble reaching the top shelf gets…
A patient's daughter once stopped me outside the ward, holding her father's lunch tray like it was proof of neglect. "Why is there no salt in this dal?" He's already…
Last October, a mother brought her fourteen-month-old to our OPD on day four of what she called "just a cold." The child wasn't crying. He wasn't feverish either — 99.2°F,…
Most people, when they walk into a hospital, aren’t thinking about ethics. They’re worried. In pain. Holding a hand. Hoping the doctor will really listen and that the bills won’t…
You know, I’ve been at this for over twenty years now. Two decades of looking at spines, fixing them, and—just as importantly—talking people out of operations they didn’t really need.…
She was 48, a schoolteacher from Salkia. Mother of two boys. When she visited my OPD, she looked tired like she hadn't slept for a few nights. She informed me…
Monsoon in Howrah. The sky opens up, the streets turn into shallow rivers, and within a week or two the fevers start. Not the kind that comes with a sneeze…