It sometimes surprises me that a country with a population of more than a billion and good number of doctors and engineers unable to invest in research or rather attract talent to research in the medical field. Rather it would be right to say that research is not a financially attractive option in our country. We see lot of Indian doctors who are also researchers abroad and ever wondered why?
Having completed my neurosurgery training from Hospital, Mumbai completed a couple of fellowship training abroad and was back home practicing neurosurgery and over a period of time realized that other than clinical work nothing innovative was coming out of it. So I decided to pursue an area of interest which was spinal biomechanics , an area that deals with understanding the biomechanics of spine and changes following surgery. Though this is an area of translation research it has tremendous…
