{"product_id":"3yr5gakds0hp","title":"The Woman Who Ran AIIMS by Sneh Bhargava [Hardcover]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDr Sneh Bhargava, born in 1930, is one of the first Indian women to qualify as a radiologist. She was the very first and, so far, only woman to head AIIMS in its decades-long history. On her first day on the job as AIIMS director, in 1984, Dr Bhargava had to deal with a monumental crisis: Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had been shot and was brought to AIIMS. In this book, we get a riveting first-hand account of this harrowing story and other gripping tales from the annals of medicine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDr Bhargava was in the room when the invention of the CT scanner was announced in the US in the early 1970s. It was she who convinced the higher-ups in the Indian government to bring the CT scanner to India. Up until that point, the only way to look inside a patient’s body was to do an X-ray or to cut them open. This book is chock-full of intriguing stories from a bygone era – from the time radium needles, used to treat cancers, mysteriously went missing from Lady Hardinge Medical College to when Dr Bhargava diagnosed a sitting president with lung cancer using only an X-ray image.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter she retired from AIIMS in 1990, Dr Bhargava went on to play a pivotal role in the establishment of two top hospitals in New Delhi. She was forced into retirement in her 90s, when COVID-19 regulations meant she could no longer go into the hospitals for work. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe used the newly acquired free time to write this frank and candid book, one of the best memoirs from a pioneer of Indian medicine. This is not just the story of her extraordinary life but is, equally, the story of the medical profession in post-Independence India, and an illustration of what it means to truly live a life of service.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Juggernaut","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48329477619962,"sku":"3YR5GAKDS0HP","price":510.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/3YR5GAKDS0HP.jpg?v=1751211241","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/3yr5gakds0hp","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}