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About the Speaker
What do doctors really do? There’s one picture we get from medical drama TV shows — a surgeon under bright lights with a scalpel, while machines beep and someone says “we’re losing him.” Many students in school feel like medicine requires artistic skills (to draw all those diagrams) and a lot of memorisation. We also think that specialisation is the name of the game — you study for 10+ years until you become a really specific, highly paid surgeon. But there are many paths that a medical doctor can take.
Dr. Sanjana SN is a public health expert who trained in emergency medicine and intensive care. She is a diabetologist and general physician who runs her own clinic. But her main job is in a space where most of us don’t picture doctors at all. As a founding team member at a health-technology company, she helps build the software Indian doctors use every day: the systems that hold your medical history, and the AI that listens to a consultation and writes up the notes.
She got there by choosing the branch of medicine families warn you away from — public health, the study of whole populations rather than single patients. Years later, it turned out to be exactly the training nobody else had.
What We’ll Explore
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“Doctor” Is Not One Job
She is a clinician, a public health specialist and a founding team member at a technology company — all on one medical degree. What does a working day actually look like when it has nothing to do with a waiting room?
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A Doctor Inside a Software Company
What can she tell an engineer that they would never have thought of on their own? How do you build something a rushed doctor will read correctly, when a misread line can hurt a patient?
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AI in the Consulting Room
Software that listens to a consultation and writes the notes already exists. What is it genuinely good at, what should it never be allowed to decide, and what changes for a student who wants to be a doctor in 2036?
About the Series
Career Adda
Most students in India hear about the same five careers. The coaching pipeline narrows options early, and by the time they’re in middle school, many kids already believe their future is a choice between engineering and medicine.
The reality is far more interesting. The world is full of people who built fulfilling, successful careers by following their curiosity. Through unexpected turns, unusual choices, and paths that made sense only in hindsight.
An adda is the long, unhurried conversation with no agenda except that it is interesting — the kind you overhear and don’t want to leave. That is what these sessions are. Each time, we sit down with someone who has built a career worth talking about, ask them how it actually happened, and then hand the microphone to the students. Honest, personal, and designed to help students aged 10–16 and their parents think bigger about what’s possible.
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Real Conversations
Not lectures. A genuine conversation about choices, failures, and surprises.
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Student Q&A
Every session includes 15 minutes for students to ask their own questions directly.
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Diverse Paths
Tech, science, medicine, design, the arts — people who took the road less prescribed.
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Families Welcome
Students and parents attend together. Saturday evenings, 6:30 PM IST on Zoom.
What Students Said After the Last One
Session #3 — a quantum physicist — drew 310 registrations and 139 students and parents into the room. Half an hour past the advertised finish, 65 of them were still there. Here is what they told us on the way out.
“I learnt what it’s like being a scientist, and I had a very insightful experience as Sindhu Ma’am helped us understand something as vague and advanced as quantum science in a very clear way.”
— Shreya, student, age 14–15
“The multiple people required to succeed one experiment — theorists, engineers, and the role that designers play in quantum physics, not to mention the experimentalists.”
— Student, age 12–13
“That an atom can be cooled with a laser by shooting it straight at it, similar to throwing many tennis balls at a truck — and how two parties can securely communicate using entanglement.”
— Sabilla, student, age 12–13
“That everything you see around you actually has many other small parts which you cannot see.”
— Krishaana, student, age 12–13
9 in 10
said they would come to another session like this
2 in 3
wanted a session like this in their own school
1 in 3
heard about a career they had never considered before
From the exit poll after Session #3, answered by 59 people in the room. Quotes used with permission; some students asked to stay anonymous.
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Past Sessions
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