A kind and gentle mentor not only to patients but also to his students,
Dr Noshir Wadia was fondly remembered on his birth centenary
Dr Pilloo Hakim
"Dr Wadia never ever tired of work
Built up his department with zeal and did not shirk casework
Wrote books, published papers, did his best
But, patients always came first, above the rest.”
After his training and work experience as a registrar at a London hospital, the first Asian to have held this position, when Dr Noshir Wadia returned to Bombay in 1957, he joined his alma mater as honorary consultant neurologist and succeeded in establishing a separate department of neurology. I was fortunate to be his first resident. He ingrained in his residents the importance of obtaining a thorough history from the patient,......