A NOTE BY ONE OF HIS PATIENTS

摘要

I knew Dr Bhansali from the days when I was a resident surgeon in J.J. Hospital in Bombay (now Mumbai) in the 1960s. At the insistence of my friend, guide and philosopher, Dr Fazl Chhatriwala, I started attending the clinics at Tata Memorial Hospital on Saturday evenings. These were eye-openers. The auditorium of the hospital-now its library-was packed with others like me. On the stage were 3 teachers: the legendary Dr Ernest Borges, Dr Shirish Bhansali and Dr Praful Desai. In a practised sequence patients would be brought to the stage, on wheelchairs or on stretchers.