tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665763284561318907.post5379758973606940588..comments2024-03-22T18:37:39.975+05:30Comments on New Technologies in Web Development: One Bedroom Flat....Satish Kumar Rachahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05671767574131890622noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8665763284561318907.post-45038651074023825372009-05-03T11:20:00.000+05:302009-05-03T11:20:00.000+05:30I am also 60 years old and a Professor of Medicine...I am also 60 years old and a Professor of Medicine and Vice-Dean, retiring from st John's Medical college, this August 2009.<br />When I passed my MBBS in 1971, I passed the ECFMG and got several residencies in hospitals across the USA.To this day, my classmates cannot figure out why I never went to USA (when it was so much easier than now ! ).I immediately joined my own Medical College as a lecturer then and I am now retiring as the Vice Dean of St. John's. My wife is a doctor graduated from Hyderabad and is now got 2 years to retire as Head of Dept of Medicine at St. John's. My younger son is also a recently (2005)graduated doctor at St. John's. <br />My classmates became millionnaires at the USA but we are caring for their ailing parents left behind at Bangalore.They are ever so grateful that I never followed them and I am now able to look after the medical needs of their parents. We have a beautiful 4 bedroom ,double storied house (purchased through Loans which we paid back slowly over 30 years and after much sacrifice) at Koramangla in Bangalore.One of our elderly patients SOLD it to us at the prevailing MARKET PRICE.My elder son is at London university, just beginning to work.<br />We had NO ancestral property or heritage money to inherit and the salary was severly limited at St. John's (Missionary Hospital, after all !)and we did NO private practice.We will start practice after retirement this year.We have grateful patients WAITING for us to start practice - MOSTLY the elderly and lonely parents left behind here, of my classmates in the USA who are ONLY too grateful to us for looking after their parents left behind here.<br />Our sons are too young in their career to help us financially.We continue to finance them and they have learn't to live frugally from our example.<br />We have a car(early version of Maruti minicar whose car Loan was just repaid after 10 years and the car still serves us a faithful 12 Kilometers per litre of petrol.) We love India and the booming city of Bangalore.<br />HOW DID WE MAKE IT THROUGH ?<br />The answer is simple. We decided to CHALLENGE OURSELVES and not follow the "Herd mentality" of our classmates in 1971. <br />Dr. Dara Amar- available at e-mail daraamar@gmail.comdaraamarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00157372780335726771noreply@blogger.com