Renowned physician Dr Farokh Udwadia makes
a case for a more holistic, less machine oriented approach to patients
Farrokh Jijina
The past, present and future are not contiguous, they are intermingled,” stated physician Dr Farokh Udwadia at an online public talk titled "Medicine in Bombay through the ages” organized by the Mumbai Research Centre (MRC) of The Asiatic Society of Mumbai (ASM) on National Doctors’ Day, July 1, 2021. Udwadia took his audience through the diseases and pandemics the city has seen in the last three centuries, and his vision for medicine in the future. "I hope this (current) pandemic does not go the way of the Spanish flu,” that reportedly took 17-18 million lives in India in the second......