A Physician’s Memoir · 1957–2026
Dr SP Kalantri
From the lecture halls of Nagpur to Gandhi’s Sevagram — one physician’s account of medicine, family, friendship, and everything a life quietly accumulates.
Begin Reading → ContentsStetho in Sevagram is more than one physician’s autobiography. It is a first-hand account of rural medicine in India across five decades — of what it meant to choose Sevagram over a city, to build a teaching hospital in Gandhi’s village, and to practise evidence-based medicine long before the phrase became fashionable. It is a history of MGIMS told from the inside, by someone who arrived as a young doctor in the summer of 1982 and never really left. It is a record of a particular kind of institutional life — of colleagues, patients, rivalries, friendships, and the slow, stubborn effort to do good medicine in difficult conditions. Readers who come for the memoir will stay for the history. Readers who come for the history will stay for the prose.