This period is very exciting for me. Mainly because I am finding in my friend network many people in the healthcare field who have become successful in their area of interest. Healthcare traditionally was viewed as a very straight jacketed area with set career paths. But thanks to the great strides in management, biomedical engineering and software and pharma sectors and an economy favoring entrepreneurship I am finding a wide variety of career options for healthcare graduates. The most exciting of which is the entrepreneurs who have started medical software startups.
Of course, in a small way this makes me compare them to Bill Gates and Dell, the entrepreneurs who later drove the multibillion-dollar computer business. Even a decade back these things were rare in India. USA was always looked upon as a place of innovation . A cursory glance through the internet shows the enormous variety…