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Dr. Patnam Siva Rama Krishna Rao, seasoned physician, teacher and writer of the wide respected aesculapian textbook ‘Differential Diagnoses and Medical Therapeutics’, passed distant astatine his residence successful Rajahmundry connected May 18. He was 100.
With a vocation spanning 7 decades, Dr. Rao near a lasting imprint connected aesculapian acquisition and objective signifier successful Andhra Pradesh and beyond. He studied and worked successful Madras, Guntur, Kakinada and Visakhapatnam, earning a estimation for his rigorous objective approach, committedness to teaching and compassionate diligent care.
He served arsenic an MD examiner for 18 aesculapian colleges and trained astir 3,000 undergraduate students during his world career. Many of his postgraduate students went connected to found distinguished careers crossed India and abroad.
Apart from academics, Dr. Rao devoted himself to charitable aesculapian work among economically disadvantaged communities. His probe enactment was published successful respective aesculapian journals, portion his presentations astatine nationalist and planetary conferences earned him wide designation wrong the aesculapian fraternity. He was besides an progressive subordinate of Lions Club India.
In his 99th year, helium brought retired the 5th variation of his textbook, ‘Differential Diagnoses and Medical Therapeutics’, regarded by generations of students and physicians arsenic a applicable usher to interior medicine.
Remembering him arsenic an inspiring teacher and clinician, Dr. D. Raghunadharao, Founder Director of Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Aganampudi, Visakhapatnam, said Dr. Rao was “an fantabulous teacher, a warm-hearted antheral and exceptionally benignant to students”.
Recalling his objective acumen, Dr. Raghunadharao said his ward rounds were “meticulous and thorough, exploring each imaginable space of the disease”.
“He was a large diagnostician and ever treated diagnosis arsenic a situation to beryllium proved. Always courteous and friendly, helium exuded assurance arsenic a clinician,” helium added.
Dr. N. Rama Koteswara Rao, Pathologist, MD, Chaitanya Medical Centre, Visakhapatnam, said: “If helium is being remembered adjacent aft 50 years, it reflects the benignant of doc helium was and the bequest helium leaves behind. Many elder doctors successful the metropolis were erstwhile his students.”
Dr. Rao is survived by his 2 daughters, a son-in-law, 4 grandchildren, 3 grandchildren-in-law and 5 great-grandchildren.
