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Magnificent obsession

By Seema Singh

2 February 2002

He was sent over to train in Britain by his rich family. They just wanted him to come home and become a successful doctor in India. But Devi Prasad Shetty had bigger plans. After specialising as a cardiologist at Guy’s Hospital in London in the 1980s, Shetty spent the next 12 years pioneering low-cost heart surgery-using every technique in the book, and some new ones that he invented himself. Telecardiology to remote places on the other side of the globe, portable ECG machines for GPs in the field, and a hospital that does more heart operations per surgeon than anywhere else, there seems to be…

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