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I\u2019m a medical correspondent and for years now I\u2019ve been reporting from all over the world for CNN.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m often in the midst of disaster, drawing on my years of training as a neurosurgeon. I hope my work gives people a context in which they can view medicine and health on a broader scale. Inevitably people ask: Which is more important to you? Are you a doctor or a reporter?<\/p>\n

The best way to answer is to tell you how I got into this line of work. I grew up in Michigan, in the town of Novi outside of Detroit. My parents were immigrants from India, working for Ford Motor Company. My mother was the first female engineer ever hired by Ford, a fact that is presented with great pride in the Indian and engineering communities.<\/p>\n

I was a bookish kid. I spent long hours in the library reading everything I could find, histories, biographies, science fiction, fantasy, mysteries. I was curious about the world and there\u2019s no better way to find things out than through the pages of a book. Even today if some kid asks me what\u2019s the first step to take to become a doctor, I answer, \u201cRead, read, read<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

I was in my teens when our family faced a medical crisis. My grandfather, with whom I was very close, had a stroke and landed in the hospital. Sitting anxiously at his bedside, I watched nurses come and go, checking his vitals and looking at the monitors attached to his body. I remember sitting there wondering what could I do to make him feel better\u2014to bring back the warm, thoughtful man I knew.<\/p>\n

It was the neurosurgeons who fascinated me. When they explained what they could do surgically to help, I thought, I want to be like them<\/em>. I want to know what they know and have the ability to heal like they do<\/a><\/em>. Eventually my grandfather got better, and my path in life was started.<\/p>\n

My reading changed. Added to the stacks I checked out from the library were new volumes about science, medicine and some of the men who were pioneers in the field, like Harvey Cushing, the father of modern neurosurgery. I learned if I wanted to be a doctor I needed to take courses not offered at our high school. I\u2019d taken biology and chemistry, but I wanted to learn physics. I remember asking Mr. Armstrong, one of my science teachers, if he had a textbook on physics.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy do you want it?\u201d he wondered.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d like to learn physics,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll teach you,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ll do it after school together.\u201d For the whole year Mr. Armstrong devoted countless hours to teaching me physics\u2014an extraordinarily generous thing to do when I think of how many other obligations he had.<\/p>\n

At the end of that year I took the Advanced Placement exam that would give me college credit for what I\u2019d learned. I scored well, and placed out of entry-level physics, all thanks to Mr. Armstrong.<\/a><\/p>\n

I was accepted into Inteflex, a special seven-year program at the University of Michigan that combined an undergraduate education with med school. In effect, I was accepted into med school straight out of high school, which was challenging, but it also gave me more time to pursue some of my other interests.<\/p>\n

One of the things my mom liked to say (something I still apply to my life today): \u201cA change of activity is a form of rest.\u201d When you need a break, try doing something different. I\u2019d always loved writing. So I started doing articles for small magazines and newspapers.<\/p>\n

The more I wrote the bigger the magazines and newspapers became. I even did a stint for the White House, planning events and writing speeches. I added to my knowledge, and started thinking in a different direction. If I could help a patient one-on-one in a doctor\u2019s office, think how many more I could reach with a story about a promising new cancer treatment or information on preventive medicine. I could save people like my grandfather. I didn\u2019t know how it would fit into the overall picture. I wanted to become a neurosurgeon. I also just happened to like writing.<\/p>\n

By now I\u2019d finished med school and my residency and was teaching at the University of Michigan. I flew down to Atlanta to interview for a position at Emory University and Hospital. At the airport I ran into Tom Johnson, CEO of the Cable News Network\u2014and I mean that literally. I bumped into him. I\u2019d known him from my work at the White House. \u201cWhy are you in Atlanta?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n

He told me he was starting a medical division at CNN. \u201cWould you be interested in joining us?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn television?\u201d I was a neurosurgeon, not a newscaster. I scratched my head and told Tom I\u2019d think about it.<\/p>\n

I took the job at Emory. I loved teaching and practicing medicine, but the CNN idea intrigued me. It was an exciting way to reach people and help them understand medicine and what doctors do.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll do it,\u201d I finally told Tom, \u201con one condition. I need to see patients and perform surgery.\u201d I didn\u2019t want to be a reporter without that firsthand experience of being a doctor. They offered me a schedule that allowed me to perform surgery every week and teach.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d been much better prepared to enter an operating room than stand in front of a camera. I stumbled over my words or looked into the wrong camera. I had only one suit and wore it every day. Someone from wardrobe had to clue me in, \u201cYou need to buy new suits, Sanjay. Viewers have noticed you\u2019re wearing the same thing.\u201d Eventually I did settle in.<\/p>\n

My first big story came with the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon<\/a>. I flew to New York with the first CNN team allowed in the air. I planned to explain the medical triage that follows such a disaster, the challenges EMTs and doctors face. But I found myself reporting on firefighters who marched up those burning towers when everyone else was leaving. They were heroes and their actions provided a context to my story. When the worst things happen they can bring out the best in people.<\/p>\n

Soon after the invasion of Iraq I found myself embedded with a group of Navy doctors over there. It was unlike anything I\u2019d ever experienced. Rocket-propelled grenades blew up near me. Our convoy went over a land mine and I was thrown out of a truck. Why had I come? I wrote a letter home, fearful it was the last I\u2019d ever write.<\/p>\n

Then we came upon a boy who\u2019d suffered severe head wounds. The Navy surgeons turned to me, \u201cCan you help us?\u201d In that difficult situation it was an easy question. This was what I did. Neurosurgery. I was a reporter and a doctor.<\/p>\n

When that story aired, I came under another sort of fire. \u201cHow can you be objective when you\u2019re standing shoulder to shoulder with Navy doctors?\u201d Another newspaper wrote that I \u201ccrossed the line.\u201d<\/p>\n

I disagreed. There\u2019s a different set of rules when it comes to saving lives. Nowhere does it say that when you put on your press credentials they are a bar to your humanity. My worlds of medicine and media have come crashing together quite a bit since then, most recently in Haiti<\/a>. I operated aboard the USS Carl Vinson on a 12-year-old girl named Kimberly at the request of the U.S. military. Again, the criticism was leveled, and again I wasn\u2019t fazed by it, but rather happy that Kimberly, once near death, was alive and reunited with her father.<\/p>\n

Not all my stories have been so dramatic, but when it\u2019s appropriate\u2014by which I mean helpful and informative\u2014I include myself in my reporting. For instance, I often stress the importance of exercise<\/a>, and I practice what I preach! My Weimaraner Bosco is often seen on my long runs for exercise segments.<\/p>\n

Or I\u2019ve discussed the value of prayer in medical emergencies. I was never formally trained in the interplay between the type of healing we think of in hospitals and the type of healing that takes place in the private recesses of our minds. Yet over time I\u2019ve come to deeply appreciate the role of prayer in the healing process. Often patients or their loved ones have prayed with me before surgery. I see it as an expression of confidence that their loved one will be healed. It makes me feel more inspired.<\/p>\n

It was curiosity and the desire to help that got me started on my path and continues to guide me, that moment when I stood beside my grandfather\u2019s bed and wondered what I could do. Not long ago I was headed to the Gulf Coast to report on the oil spill. My wife and I have three daughters and I had carefully explained to our eldest, five-year-old Sage, the extent of the disaster. About a year prior I\u2019d done a science experiment with her, showing her the concept of osmosis across a filter and how magnets could remove fluid that carried an ionic charge. She had obviously been paying attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cHere, Daddy,\u201d she said to me before I left. She gave me a picture of the ocean and a water-filtration system. She had drawn brown water with these big magnets on one side and then the water getting less and less brown and eventually turning blue with someone filling a cup at the end to drink it. Clean water.<\/p>\n

Wow,<\/em> I thought, she totally gets it!<\/em> A five-year-old\u2019s take on reverse osmosis. Who knows what Sage will become when she\u2019s grown up, but right now she\u2019s looking for ways to help, and amazing things can happen when you start seeking solutions<\/a> to the big problems of the world.<\/p>\n

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