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Dr (Col) Parikshit Singh
MD, PDCC
Senior Advisor (Anaesthesia & Critical Care),
Professor (Anaesthesiology)
Command Hospital (Northern Command), Udhampur (J&K);
An Ode to our Professor
My 2 years at the Department of Critical Care Medicine at SGPGIMS from 2009 to 2011 were what I call the ‘Wonder Years’. I had
heard from my service senior and predecessor Dr (Col) Gagan Narula that the faculty was great and the experience even greater
working under them. But the one name which kept coming up time and again was Dr AK Baronia’s. Initially I thought it was natural, he
being the Professor and Head of the Department, but as time went by I was introduced to the many brilliant qualities of our CCM Dept
Founder. I was happy being out my disciplined army uniform and lifefor those 2 years,and working simply as a Doctor in the purest
form of intensive care medicine, but one interaction with ProfBaronia and I knew that discipline would be the key word here too! A man
of few words with a seemingly stern demeanour, an intuitive person, a self-reecting individual, an experienced soul, a teaching guru,
a brilliant academician, astute planner, perfect executioner of goals and many similar descriptions came to my mind. Is it possible for
a man to wear so many hats? I often wondered.
But as those wonder years unfolded before me, rst working as an SR on the peripheries and later on the main CCM oor I was witness
to the sublime and often prophetic clinical judgement of our Professor be it introducing the sheath of a Pulmonary Artery Catheter via a
subclavian puncture in a 45 degree head up position to the ne art of tapering the inotropic support while keeping a hawk-like eye on
the hemodynamic pressure wave contours. And when we shifted to the new CCM location from the old one in 2010, the same
Professor switched roles and was now a key administrative planner in setting it all up right from the position of the bedhead pendant to
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MD, PDCC
Senior Advisor (Anaesthesia & Critical Care),
Professor (Anaesthesiology)
Command Hospital (Northern Command), Udhampur (J&K);
An Ode to our Professor
My 2 years at the Department of Critical Care Medicine at SGPGIMS from 2009 to 2011 were what I call the ‘Wonder Years’. I had
heard from my service senior and predecessor Dr (Col) Gagan Narula that the faculty was great and the experience even greater
working under them. But the one name which kept coming up time and again was Dr AK Baronia’s. Initially I thought it was natural, he
being the Professor and Head of the Department, but as time went by I was introduced to the many brilliant qualities of our CCM Dept
Founder. I was happy being out my disciplined army uniform and lifefor those 2 years,and working simply as a Doctor in the purest
form of intensive care medicine, but one interaction with ProfBaronia and I knew that discipline would be the key word here too! A man
of few words with a seemingly stern demeanour, an intuitive person, a self-reecting individual, an experienced soul, a teaching guru,
a brilliant academician, astute planner, perfect executioner of goals and many similar descriptions came to my mind. Is it possible for
a man to wear so many hats? I often wondered.
But as those wonder years unfolded before me, rst working as an SR on the peripheries and later on the main CCM oor I was witness
to the sublime and often prophetic clinical judgement of our Professor be it introducing the sheath of a Pulmonary Artery Catheter via a
subclavian puncture in a 45 degree head up position to the ne art of tapering the inotropic support while keeping a hawk-like eye on
the hemodynamic pressure wave contours. And when we shifted to the new CCM location from the old one in 2010, the same
Professor switched roles and was now a key administrative planner in setting it all up right from the position of the bedhead pendant to
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