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The young man fell silent.
He reached into his drawer and pulled out a worn, hand-written notebook — not a PDF, not a digital copy.
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The young man fell silent.
He reached into his drawer and pulled out a worn, hand-written notebook — not a PDF, not a digital copy. "This is my real general practice," he said
The young man left. And Dr. Mahajan turned back to his next patient — a seven-year-old with a fever, whose mother had no internet, no PDF, but carried instead a tattered appointment card from 2018. Mahajan wrote a referral letter, not a prescription
One rainy July evening, a young man burst in, phone in hand. "Doctor, please! My grandmother in Nagpur is sick. Can you just prescribe something online?"