Brig SK Mazumdar and INMAS : A Profile

Abstract

As a warm human personality that Brig. Mazumdar is remembered by his colleagues, friends and patients. He was basically an agnostic but was extremely understanding of and respectful to differing points of view. He thought deeply about the role of the physician in tomorrow's world, He felt that valid connections have to be established between culture, religion, morality, environment and scientific humanism. The ultimate goal of the physician is not mere delivery of medical skill but to bring man into tune with his environment. He was not merely a nuclear medicine specialist, but an outstanding endocrinologist, cardiologist and neurologist. In fact, he viewed the disease p-rocess in its totality and never forgot the human element.