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The joyous Durga Puja is not only a season of festivities and celebration but also a time of spiritual and physical rejuvenation, bringing peace and hope in the heart of every Bengali. This exhilaration isreflected in the splendid attires and adornments,in which the ethnic sari takes the prime [...]

A physician is inherently a gardener.To be in the medical field is to cultivate patience, diligence, understand the impact of environment, have scientific enquiry and rejoice in nature.  Ancient literature in every culture describes the “healer” in society as an individual also well versed in [...]

The world anxiously awaits the discovery of a vaccine against the novel corona virus which is the only foreseeable hope of restoring the old order and thereby our dreams of a future which has been so brutally and abruptly interrupted by this pandemic. Vaccines are an integral part of medicine [...]

By UDITA JAHAGIRDAR M.D., F.A.C.O.G.   The launch of a spaceship over at the coast of Central Florida is a site to behold. The anticipatory throng of humanity, the pulse quickening countdown growing into a chant, then the lift off –  a flash of fire on a bed of white cloud of smoke,  a [...]

Udita Mukhuty Jahagirdar M.D.,F.A.C.O.G Halcyon days of yore those were, young diamonds in the rough, We all made it to Seth GS, hey, we were surely good enough! Classes in anatomy, demos in embryology, charting that muscle twitch, Bonds forged over a cadaver, Krebs cycle to decipher, notes [...]

A Scientist and Humanist Ever so often, a period or place in time is blessed with an individual who catapults human knowledge to a new level of consciousness. Such a person was Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose – a scientist and true humanist at heart – ranked among the ten most famous Bengalis of all [...]

Hello, This is Dr. Udita Jahagirdar. I have started this Blog exclusively for my patients, peers and friends. It is my way of sharing my experiences and contributing to the society. I love to read and write and this blog on our website will definitely help me keep all my writing in one place [...]

When we got into medical school a kind and optimistic professor with a penchant for French phrases said in congratulation – Your future will be “ La vie en rose”- A rosy life. So here we were, a gaggle of bright eyed medical students doing our first day orientation at Seth G.S. Medical [...]

We were a foursome group of fifty something doctors adventuring in the Bolivian Altiplano. Our destination was the Sun Island of Moon Virgins in Lake Titicaca, the mythical birthplace of Inca civilization. Legend has it that Viracocha, the Creator God, rose from the depths of Lake Titicaca, [...]

“Get out of your comfort zone” is an oft repeated admonition. One year I decided to do just that and signed up for scuba diving lessons. Living in Florida you are surrounded by water and you hear “diver yarns”everywhere.  People go diving in the coral reefsoffsouth Florida, they go diving and [...]