Brief trip to Apollo Hospital

Through Najeeb’s friend Dr. Pramod I was able to spend some time at Apollo Hospital the day we left Chennai. I gave a talk on the history of IM residency training in the US to a group of students and residents (and answered their questions about getting into residencies), and then had a tour. Apollo [...]

The Overnight Train from Chennai to Hyderabad

One of the things about international travel that makes it fun is the inevitable contrast of your ideas of about how things are going to be and how you find them. For the train ride from Chennai to Hyderabad- I envisioned us sitting in a train looking at the Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh countryside [...]

Emeline in Chennai day 3

In the morning today Julia and I went shopping. We also went to a smoothie shop and both got delicious smoothies. I also tried two new fruits I have never heard of before. One was small and round, and you peel away the green peal and pop it in your mouth. I t was very [...]

Julia in Chennai, day 3

Today I went shopping. My dad’s friend took me. I got a sari. It’s pink with gold sequins. After shopping my dad’s other friend toke us out to lunch. Since I don’t like Indian food I ordered room service. Then Emeline and I went to the pool. The pool was fun. It has a waterfall! [...]

Passports, what passports? (Or I don’t need no stinking…..)

The trip to Coimbatore (knitting and weaving capital of India) was the one part of the itinerary where the schedule and the timing and the structure of the day mattered. So when we were almost at the Chennai airport to fly to Coimbatore and I realized that I did not remember to bring our passports, [...]