Dr Debashis Chatterjee is a senior consultant physician with a long experience of 34 years of clinical practice behind him. Out of these, a decade was spent in the NHS, UK where he ended up working as Consultant in General and Geriatric Medicine at the Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. Back in Kolkata, Dr Chatterjee has been associated with the Desun Hospital and Heart Institute since its very inception in 2009. He practices the full range of Internal Medicine that encompasses management of diabetes, thyroid illnesses, hypertension and other cardiovascular illnesses, COPD, bronchial asthma and other allergic respiratory illnesses, gastrointestinal problems like fatty liver, gastro-esophageal reflux disease, irritable bowel syndrome and so on and so forth. Dr Chatterjee devotes a lot of time per patient in the clinic taking detailed history, performing a meticulous clinical examination and going through past medical records. His prescriptions are detailed, legible, comprehensive and he takes time to explain and counsel the patient as well as the next of kin. All these are hallmarks of a core
practitioner of Internal Medicine.
| Qualifications | Institute/ Departments |
|---|---|
| MBBS | Medical College, Calcutta, Calcutta University |
| MD (Medicine) | Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (IPGMER, SSKM hospital), Calcutta University |
| DNB (Medicine) | National Board of Examinations, New Delhi |
| MRCP | Royal College of Physicians (UK) |
| CCST | General (Internal) Medicine and Geriatric Medicine, Specialist Training Authority, United Kingdom |