Dr Pallav THANAWALA responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? It happened just a couple of months before my 12th Board Exams. I changed my ‘fancy,’ also entire career path, from engineering to medicine. I wanted to be a doctor. This was a whim, maybe, in hindsight, but I am
Dr Karan THAKKAR responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I found medicine fascinating — ever since my childhood, or formative years. It held a vision, a canvas like no other — to learn something engagingly riveting, also something unique, and being able to help people in their darkest hour
Dr R K ANJALI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? It was always my childhood dream to be a doctor. I focused on it and made it my primary professional option though I had other alternative choices. What made you think of, study and specialise in the
Dr Chaithra S RAOresponds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? It happened while I was growing up. I watched my mother and grandmother ‘cook up’ home remedies for simple ailments. The way my paediatrician treated me as a kid and my botanist uncle, who ‘practiced’ Ayurveda, also stoked
Dr Ambika P NAYAK responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? Childhood dream; also aspiration. What made you think of, study and specialise in the system of medicine you now practice? Ayurveda celebrates holism in health and medicine — this caught my attention, not just fancy. Add to
Dr Gauri ROKKAM responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I always wanted to either teach, or treat [read, heal] people. I was not inclined towards modern medicine — this was because of my belief systems during my upbringing. My father is a naturopath and yoga exponent. All
Dr Jagannath M BORAMANI responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I did not quite like biology during my school. I loved physics. That my brother went to IIT-Mumbai may have had something to do with it? Possibly. Well, my parents wanted me to become a doctor. My brother
Dr Pravin N MHATRE responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? I had, right from my formative years, a fascination for the human body, and its myriad intricate mechanisms that work with amazing symmetry, also synchrony. Its basic science, or understanding, from the inside out, was of equal interest
Dr Naveen Kumar BOGGARAPU responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire: Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? Medicine is a profession which is highly respected and can impact people positively by healing them; it can make a lot of sad faces smile. I wanted to touch peoples’ lives and make them happy. What made
