"Highly skilled doctors get sued much more than those doctors who make a lot of mistakes. Patients file suits not based on shoddy medical care alone, but something else that happens alongside that. And that something is how they were treated by their doctor on a personal level when something goes wrong.”
From Blink by Malcolm Gladwell, quoted by Dr Mazda Turel, practicing neurosurgeon, Wockhardt Hospitals and honorary assistant professor of neurosurgery, Grant Medical College and Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals,
sunday mid-day, February 20, 2022
"They have studied the address and the courtesy of the European, without acquiring that fine sense
of honor, and that genuine
philanthropy, which mark the
gentleman from the far west.”
The Parsis Or Modern Zerdusthians:
A Sketch (1852) by Henry George
Briggs, reprinted by Kessinger
Publishing Legacy Reprints (2009)
"You don’t learn just from
surgeons or senior surgical
residents. The very first mentors
in my surgical career were a
nurse and a theater assistant.”
Dr Tehemton Udwadia, gastroenterologist, in More Than Just Surgery: Life Lessons Beyond The O.T.
"I reposed total trust in my
girls. Queen Marians are by and large honest, exemplary women making their mark in society.
I’ve handed them belief in my
favorite lines from (English
poet John) Keats: ‘Beauty is
truth, truth beauty — that is
all ye know on earth
and all ye need to know.’”
Rati Wadia, teacher and former
principal, Queen Mary School,
sunday mid-day, February 6, 2022
"My husband’s family settled
early here. Shapur Baug —
probably the first Parsi colony
fitted with lifts in buildings —
welcomed residents from August 1, 1939, a month before the War broke out on September 1.”
Dinoo Damania, homemaker, sunday
mid-day, February 6, 2022
Prime Minister Narendra "Modi sees himself as an emperor. Not as an emperor of Hindu minds or even as the first Hindu emperor; he sees himself as doing what Shivaji and Prithviraj Chauhan could not do, which is to create a unified
Hindu state. That chills me,
frightens me. And that’s absolutely not good for the Republic.”
Ramachandra Guha, historian and author, The Indian Express, January 24, 2022
"Just 44% of children in Class V can read a text meant for Class II. And just 23% of children in
Class V can do division.”
Pratham’s education reports quoted by
Naushad Forbes, co-chairman, Forbes Marshall; past president, Confederation of Indian Industry; chairman, Centre for
Technology Innovation and Economic
Research and Ananta Aspen Centre,
The Indian Express, January 19, 2022