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Cardiothoracic & Vascular surgery in India-Achievements & future goals

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I am confident that cardiothoracic surgery will continue to fluorish. To participate effectively and to lead rather than react to the upcoming developments and challenges in the science and society, we must maintain our professional integrity; prove that we can aim beyond narrow view of the cavalier, socially unconcerned and economically motivated technicians.

Nothing is impossible in this world and as Benjamin Franklin said ‘If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing’.

Let us rise to the occasion and prove that we can achieve what could not be achieved anywhere else in the world. We should be the best as individuals, as an association and as a country so that we can appropriately say.

East or West, ‘India is the Best’ and from the core of our hearts comes the voice “SARE JEHAN SE ACHCHHA, HINDUSTAN HAMARA

Finally, for the privilege of being your president, I am honored and thank you all once again. God bless you all, Namaskar.

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Airan, B. Cardiothoracic & Vascular surgery in India-Achievements & future goals. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 21, 133–137 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12055-005-0031-5

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