Author Biography
R. N. Das, MBBS, MD, MRCP (UK), FRCP (London) is presently working as an associate professor in the department of Medicine, Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal. He graduated from the famous and oldest medical college under Calcutta University. He obtained his post-graduate degree from a premier institute in India, PGIMER; Chandigarh. He has a brilliant academic record and more than 17 years of work experience in different branches of clinical medicine, especially tropical and infectious diseases in several hospitals in India, Middle East, United Kingdom and Nepal. He has more than 50 publications in scientific journals at home and abroad. He is an astute clinician, a popular teacher and an honest researcher. He lays stress on clinical diagnosis and abhors unnecessary sophisticated investigations. He loves to be an internal medicine specialist. His main subject of interest is tropical medicine. Besides his own medical field, Dr. Das also takes keen interest in history, comparative literature and religion. He is humorous, a good orator and a prolific writer.