Congratulations, Dr Dilip Gode

[Guest guest]

Congratulations, Dr Dilip Gode, for taking over as the national president

of the Association of Minimal Access Surgeons of India (AMASI). The Times

of India reports that you are designing courses that promise to offer wider

access to minimal access surgery – to the public and to the surgeons

wishing to acquire skills in key-hole surgery. A heartening news indeed.

Your trainees would soon discover that the best way to reach patient’s

heart (or wallet) is through their stomachs. Patients these days no longer

wish to go under the knife but rather under the scope. You, as AMASI

president, must broaden the scope of the general surgeons who know that the

length of scar they leave behind on their patient’s belly is inversely

proportional to their operating fees.

SP Kalantri

Department of Medicine

MGIMS, Sevagram

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