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Devoted physician

Sir, — This refers to your article on K.S. Sanjivi ("The great little man", Dec. 28). Dr. Sanjivi was a devoted physician. I worked under him as one of his first house surgeons in 1945. One day on his morning rounds, he found an intravenous drip being administered to a patient and asked me what the matter was. I explained that the patient had cerebral malaria and he was being administered quinine. He asked, "don't you know quinine is cardiac poison? Let the patient die of malaria, but do not give him quinine this way."On another occasion, I punctured the wrong side of a patient to remove the accumulated fluid in his thorax. I confessed this to Dr. Sanjivi who smiled and said, "Why do you try to remember all these details? Look at the x-ray of the patient before you treat him".

V.R. Bhat,
Mangalore

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