Serving the Pained and the Poor: The Florence Nightingale of Indian Dentistry

Meet Dr. Sunita Gupta, the messiah of the poor and the needy in her own right, who shunned the glut and glare of the highly lucrative profession and who vowed to use her uncanny God-given abilities for the suffering humanity and who vowed to render a yeoman service in eradicating the formidable disease of mouth cancer, in fact went on to redefined the true role of a doctor, “My each day dawns with a new beginning, a new fervor, a new zest and a renewed passion,” Says she.

The large number of students, researchers and doctors who seek her guidance, is something to admire. Never tired, never annoyed and ever willing to help is a hallmark of this doctor, who stands tall in the profession.

Many of the patients who come to Dr Gupta are poor or not so well off, with all the cultural traits that go with them in the sense of poor communication skills to get treated at this modern dental hospital. Sometimes they take a long time to communicate, sometimes they do not convey properly their problem, but with my long or brief association with Dr Gupta, I have never ever seen her lose her cool. She listens to them as if time was of no consequence, but the patient is primordial.

Holistic Understanding

These are traits not acquired from textbooks, nor passed on by seniors, but these are what is inherent in one's nature or culture. It indeed is a remarkable contrast to the haughty attitude of bureaucrats, corporate executives, top notch professionals, Ministers, doctors themselves and what have you. It is difficult to explain such traits, but they have something to do with the passion that one has for one's profession and the manner in which one has nurtured it. The confidence is all too apparent, and the holistic understanding of the medical issues involved is perhaps the need of the hour. A country where merit is not too common, nor revered, nor often rewarded, these are people who couldn't care less for anything.

A graduate and post graduate from Governmental Dental College, Ahmedabad, Dr Gupta has also an MBA degree from Delhi University in Health Administration. She is also a Commonwealth Fellow from King's College, London, for the study of oral and pre-oral cancers. Dr Gupta is on a mission mode job out to create awareness about such cancers and the terrible dangers of tobacco chewing, an issue close to the agenda of the World Health Organisation.

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