Sunday, May 30, 2010

Was Gandhi ji a smoker?


Probably not, but this thought occurred to me because one of my patients in the ICU looks exactly like M. K. Gandhi, expect his race/skin color is different. He is as cachetic and this head is shaped just like him in pictures (the picture here was obtained via google image search). However, my patient is a heavy smoker with COPD. His ribs stick out more because of this, which got me wondering whether Mahatma Gandhi had been a smoker...