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The Story

My Memoir - "A Village Boy''s Journey" - is in three volumes.Volume one has been published as an International and Indian edition by Partridge Publishers and as a British edition by Troubador Publishers. Volume two and three will be published, in full colour with 60 plus photographs, as E-Book, Paperback and hardback, in sequence, soon after the publication of volume one. In this mini-chapter I am going to describe here, briefly, the subject matter of the three volumes.Volume One - Subtitle: "Journey begins from childhood to becoming a surgeon". In this volume I tell the stories from my early childhood in British ruled India as the first born in a rich Zamindar family, where I was destined to run the estate including the Zamindari. I was trained to start taking part in the running of the estate while I was in the middle school in the village. Later, I went to the High School in the capital of Bihar province, Patna and then to study Medicine to Agra. I passed MBBS degree with Honours and Master in Surgery (MS) degree.From the week after my graduation, I had full registration with Indian Medical Council and with the General Medical Council, London. I started work as Senior House Officer in the Department of Surgery couple of weeks after my graduation. In volume one there are several stories about management of seriously injured and ill patients including the cases of "Bride Burning" and several cases of attempted murders as well as my efforts in improving management of patients with Tetanus and those with burns.Volume two - subtitle: "Neurosurgeon''s life: 1 mm between life and death; but you are of the wrong colour". In this volume, I tell the story of my journey from New Delhi, where I had started specialising in neurosurgery, to England to obtain senior training in good Departments of neurosurgery. I achieved this and the full accreditation in Neurosurgery after being trained by two legends of British Neurosurgery, Mr Willie Henderson in Leeds and Mr John O''Connell at St Bartholomew''s Hospital London. Then I faced enormous difficulty in obtaining a permanent consultant position in UK due to well established prejudice and discrimination based on the race and ethnicity in 1970s. I, then, went to India for a year but decided to go back to England due to personal, family and professional reasons. I, then, worked in Ireland, but again could not obtain permanent consultant''s position in Ireland or UK due to racial and ethnic prejudices and, then, went to Saudi Arabia as consultant and associate professor of neurosurgery at Dammam University there where I achieved full Professorship after being vetted by two internationally recognised Neurosurgeons, Prof Charles Drake of London, Ontario, Canada, President of Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and Prof Graham Teasdale, President of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.Volume three - subtitle: "Journey to Saudi Arabia and prodigal''s return to England to face brush with the law". This volume describes stories from my life and work in Saudi Arabia where I did not, only, modernised practice of I neurosurgery but also changed the course of medical practice against their perceived custom and religion but with the sensitivity. This included getting criteria of Brain Death established in law, getting regional anaesthesia for people with judicial chopping of right hand with proper refashioning of the amputated site, obtaining permission for Saudi female Interns and Residents to stay during night-time in protected female residency etc. I returned to England in April 2007 and started work as neurosurgical medicolegal expert in cases with injury to the Central Nervous system and Spine so as to get the proper justice and maximum monetary award to the injured patient through the court of law. Soon after the Covid pandemic I started writing my Memoir, "A Village Boy''s Journey" in three volumes. During writing the Memoir I reduced my medicolegal workload due to restricted mobility, but I continued to see reduced number of patients for medicolegal work on face-to-face basis at one consulting room in Bedford, so as to keep my expertise and my brain working. With the same aims and objectives, I have started and is on advanced stage of planning and formulating a series of Blog Posts on "How the Brain works" for lay people and university level Tutorials and Webinars related to clinical Neurosciences on-line programme basis.

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My Memoir - "A Village Boy''s Journey" - is in three volumes.Volume one has been published as an International and Indian edition by Partridge Publishers and as a British edition by Troubador Publishers. Volume two and three will be published, in full colour with 60 plus photographs, as E-Book, Paperback and hardback, in sequence, soon after the publication of volume one. In this mini-chapter I am going to describe here, briefly, the subject matter of the three volumes.Volume One - Subtitle: "Journey begins from childhood to becoming a surgeon". In this volume I tell the stories from my early childhood in British ruled India as the first born in a rich Zamindar family, where I was destined to run the estate including the Zamindari. I was trained to start taking part in the running of the estate while I was in the middle school in the village. Later, I went to the High School in the capital of Bihar province, Patna and then to study Medicine to Agra. I passed MBBS degree with Honours and Master in Surgery (MS) degree.From the week after my graduation, I had full registration with Indian Medical Council and with the General Medical Council, London. I started work as Senior House Officer in the Department of Surgery couple of weeks after my graduation. In volume one there are several stories about management of seriously injured and ill patients including the cases of "Bride Burning" and several cases of attempted murders as well as my efforts in improving management of patients with Tetanus and those with burns.Volume two - subtitle: "Neurosurgeon''s life: 1 mm between life and death; but you are of the wrong colour". In this volume, I tell the story of my journey from New Delhi, where I had started specialising in neurosurgery, to England to obtain senior training in good Departments of neurosurgery. I achieved this and the full accreditation in Neurosurgery after being trained by two legends of British Neurosurgery, Mr Willie Henderson in Leeds and Mr John O''Connell at St Bartholomew''s Hospital London. Then I faced enormous difficulty in obtaining a permanent consultant position in UK due to well established prejudice and discrimination based on the race and ethnicity in 1970s. I, then, went to India for a year but decided to go back to England due to personal, family and professional reasons. I, then, worked in Ireland, but again could not obtain permanent consultant''s position in Ireland or UK due to racial and ethnic prejudices and, then, went to Saudi Arabia as consultant and associate professor of neurosurgery at Dammam University there where I achieved full Professorship after being vetted by two internationally recognised Neurosurgeons, Prof Charles Drake of London, Ontario, Canada, President of Royal College of Surgeons of Canada and Prof Graham Teasdale, President of Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.Volume three - subtitle: "Journey to Saudi Arabia and prodigal''s return to England to face brush with the law". This volume describes stories from my life and work in Saudi Arabia where I did not, only, modernised practice of I neurosurgery but also changed the course of medical practice against their perceived custom and religion but with the sensitivity. This included getting criteria of Brain Death established in law, getting regional anaesthesia for people with judicial chopping of right hand with proper refashioning of the amputated site, obtaining permission for Saudi female Interns and Residents to stay during night-time in protected female residency etc. I returned to England in April 2007 and started work as neurosurgical medicolegal expert in cases with injury to the Central Nervous system and Spine so as to get the proper justice and maximum monetary award to the injured patient through the court of law. Soon after the Covid pandemic I started writing my Memoir, "A Village Boy''s Journey" in three volumes. During writing the Memoir I reduced my medicolegal workload due to restricted mobility, but I continued to see reduced number of patients for medicolegal work on face-to-face basis at one consulting room in Bedford, so as to keep my expertise and my brain working. With the same aims and objectives, I have started and is on advanced stage of planning and formulating a series of Blog Posts on "How the Brain works" for lay people and university level Tutorials and Webinars related to clinical Neurosciences on-line programme basis.
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