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Doctors see career in business

A. Saye Sekhar

Ten doctors will be conferred MBA degree by the ISB at the graduation ceremony on April 5

— PHOTO: NAGARA GOPAL

(From left) Anil Jadhav, Yashwanth Shenoy and Vishwa Kirti Sharma.

HYDERABAD: Re-aligning a fractured fibula will no longer be orthopaedist Vishwa Kirti Sharma’s cup of tea. The five-odd years of arduous journey through the portals of KEM College in Mumbai has not taken Anil Jadhav to the corridors of the famous Leelavati or Jaslok hospitals. Yashwanth Shenoy doesn’t foresee himself trekking the snowy Siachen glacier to extract a bullet out of a soldier.

This troika of doctors joined seven other peers in a class of 422 at the Indian School of Business (ISB) which portends a bright career for them. For the first time, 10 doctors, five of them specialists, joined a class in the ISB which will confer the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degrees at the graduation ceremony on April 5.

The message -- appearing for USMLE or PLAB is not the end of all for a medical graduate. Born in the family of doctors, Dr. Sharma is married to a gynaecologist. Yet, driven by the passion of leading a hospital group, he switched gears. “There is an opportunity for someone who understands healthcare as I do. A doctor can take a better decision in running a hospital,” says Dr. Sharma. Naresh Trehan and Pratap C. Reddy are his role models. He will be taking up as the Chief Operating Officer of a big hospital.

Dr. Jadhav never dabbled with syringes and stethoscope ever since he began a career. He found himself in altogether different role – validating the claims of policy-holders in an insurance company.

Quitting a senior management position, Dr. Jadhav mastered the financial aspects of healthcare at the ISB. “One illness in a family can take it below poverty line. I want to create awareness among people on the importance of health insurance from the front-end of a hospital,” he said. Managing a 50-bed makeshift hospitals in hostile terrains as a Major (medical officer) in the Indian Army, Dr. Shenoy came to ISB to hone is financial skills and would soon take up a corporate job in a large private equity firm.

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