Madras Medical College 1983: September 2007

Thursday, September 13, 2007

This site needs YOU...

Dear Friends,

Please post your comments and ideas. I would like to be able to post more old photos so please email me (email id available on MMC1983 site). Also tell us about yourselves - where you work now, your families, your kids and your lives since MMC...look forward to hearing from everyone so we can reconnect.

Recognize yourselves?

Old pictures..please some more needed

Old MMC batch 1983 pictures...please contribute

Please email me more pictures...we have antique value now!

Reunion 2007

We came together, twenty years after the singular event that changed our 150 lives. The students of the Madras Medical College class of 1983 reunited to stop and reflect, and decide how we could give back to the College that made us who we are, a quarter of a century back. Gone was the fierce competitiveness of 2 decades ago. In it place was a quiet sense of achievement, a feeling of having found our individual places in the world, of having arrived. There was also a collective sense of pride in how far our classmates had come, in the strength of our talents - plastic and cardiac surgeons, orthopedics, gastroenterology, and anesthetists, every specialty represented and excelled at. Medical men and women, mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, global citizens.

We re-lived the way we were; watched a video of ourselves at graduation and marveled at how young and cocky we were, how confidently we strode across the MMC campus armed with our degrees, and how much we learnt in the years since about how little we actually know. For a few hours we traveled down memory lane, forgetting first wrinkles and gray hair, ignoring early warnings of sagging bellies, we were young and could conquer the world again.

The next morning we woke to the news that a classmate had been tragically killed in an accident on his way home from the re-union. Added to the shock of this news was the pathos of the value of his medical knowledge at the end of a 20- year career…he called his wife to tell her he would not make it and say a last goodbye…

The world continues, life goes on, we return to our lives and patients, more somber and reflective. And we are left with these same questions always…

What is our purpose?

How do we give back to our wonderful world?

How will we be remembered?

Madras Medical College 1983

Thursday, September 13, 2007

This site needs YOU...

Recognize yourselves?

Old pictures..please some more needed

Old MMC batch 1983 pictures...please contribute

Reunion 2007

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