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My parents always told my sister and me that if we wanted to, we could be doctors and lawyers, like my father and his brothers, like some of their women friends. Denise and I had art in our sights, though.

Practicing medicine is not only my vocation, it gives me an opportunity to continue to be in direct contact with people, to see them and hear their needs.

I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and I didn't want to be either one.

When you're brown and Indian, you get offered a lot of doctor roles.

I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.

Both my brothers became physicians and I, of course, wandered into a business where the undisciplined are welcome.

Everybody in my family are doctors.

I come from a family of doctors and engineers, and everyone expected me to take up a similar career. That was the most natural thing to do!

Both my parents are doctors, so from the time I was a child, I wanted to do medicine.