Business is all about Bottomline - not for this legend...who mends the heart on top - Meet Dr. DEVI SHETTY

Dr. Devi Shetty

My admiration for this man is inexplicably intricate to explain !

Meet the guy who made it possible for a normal man to have a heart surgery.

This man will make you sit and think about all the corporate rhetorics you have ever gone through..it will tell you to re-look at your accounting skills ...

and the best part - it might just remind YOU about WHO you are and what HUMAN SPIRIT is capable of

what sets him apart his sheer spirituality in business!! he uses the "scale" of his operations to "optimise" the cost for poor and poorer still!!!

(photo courtsey - ref:http://www.virtualbangalore.com/Ppl/PplDrDevi.php

THE MAN who is an inspiration

THE MAN who has been chosen by divine to represent itself in human form and give a glimpse of what divinity is capable of ....

He has ideated things like an insurance coverage with premium of INR5 for poor Indians and he has a vision of having a heart centre in the remotest town and village of India, he is also into surgeries by using video conferencing technique

i am not able to contain in words my sheer admiration for this mind-boggling personality

my SALUTE to him!!

check this out - (article source - IBNLive)

A heart surgery here costs Rs. 110,000, much less than what it costs elsewhere. Even so, you pay the full price only if you can afford it. Many don’t pay at all. In 2008, out of 6,088 heart surgeries at the Bangalore centre, only 1,232 were fully paid for. Yet, the hospital makes a tidy profit. The Narayana Hrudyalaya group had a turnover of close to Rs. 300 crore in 2008-09, up from Rs. 150 crore in the previous year.

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It’s not for nothing that patients come here in droves. It has an impossible-sounding success rate of 95 percent and charges a fraction of what other heart hospitals do. The charismatic Dr Devi Shetty, the hospital’s founder, has been relentlessly pursuing a mission: To make world-class healthcare affordable to the masses. “Hundred years after the first heart surgery was done, only 8 percent of the world’s population can afford it,” he says, quickly pointing out that this is a five-year-old statistic and today we might be worse off. “What happens to the rest?” asks Shetty.

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Before Devi Shetty, it was considered impossible to drive down costs to such levels; even now, no one has been able to replicate this. Top-flight management researchers want to understand how Shetty does it. “The mortality rate in Narayana Hrudyalaya is much lower than in New York State for similar kinds of heart disease,” says University of Michigan’s C.K. Prahalad. The hospital has been discussed extensively in his 2004 bestseller, The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid. It has also become a case study at Harvard Business School. Adds Kokila P. Doshi, professor of Economics at University of San Diego’s business school, “Till now the trend was that government serves the poor. Shetty has shown that private enterprise can serve the poor profitably.”

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ref:http://www.virtualbangalore.com/Ppl/PplDrDevi.php

His list of achievements is incredible to say the least. He is the first heart surgeon in India to venture into neo-natal open-heart surgery. He performed the first open-heart surgery in the world to close a hole in the heart with the help of a microchip camera. He used an artificial heart for the first time in India and performed the first surgery in India using the blood vessels of the stomach to bypass the blocked arteries of the heart.

The list is in fact endless. He also performed Asia’s first dynamic cardiomyoplasty operation/ Dr Shetty's another claim to fame is his effort in reducing the cost of heart operations. The package pricing system devised by him has made heart surgery affordable to the common man. He is also responsible for introducing the concept of assembly line heart surgery, which aims at reducing the cost of surgery and achieving zero mortality.

But everybody will agree that his greatest achievement has been his work with children. He operates free for kids under twelve, and of his 13000 operations in a 16 year career span, over 5000 operations were on children. For him, compassion is the biggest thing in life. He has gone on record many times to say that, “If I am given a choice I would like to treat only poor patients. But unfortunately the economic reality does not allow me to do that

If you want to read further and revel in the beauty of human spirit..go on ...type his name in google and spend some time with this man.....who for me is a Mahatama (Gandhi) reborn....

Let me be sane.

Let me walk up to the snowy hill

All alone
In silence
carrying the "me" on "my" shoulder
heavy, crooked, entangled and lost
In deep discussion with the noiseless blue evening
My face covered with a white cloth
Only my eyes visible
So that I can see and sense the "search"around me

all other senses... laid to rest

let me drink the evening through my being
let it percolate through me
let me walk
let me talk
let me embrace the snow, the evening, the silence, the mountain, the me
I have some major discussions to do

Let me be sane.

Please leave me alone.

Thanks for everything .....YOU are the BEST MANAGER (after SIR :))

Dear Siraj,
This letter is sent to the little void where i send my thots in form of “prayers” and gratitude. I want you to read this and know that by sending my thots to the universe I have expressed my ultimate gratitude for what I was blessed with and I am sure that the thots will come back to you in the form of blessings ...
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So i have a job in hand after a sabbatical of one year

Am i happy? Am i excited?

When I started going through my letters, documents, payment slips to be submitted to my new employer, I wept. I was flooded with the memory of burnt coffee, smelling of honesty and workholism....it happened without my conscious knowledge.....

instead of feeling the excitement of new phase of my life...i felt depressed and homeless...

Each CDA certificate and letter made me feel more miserable. I missed my team, my floor, my cubicle, my journey to the campus, my fights, my laughter, my sharing ………..and so many more things……….

My three wholesome years.

Did I ever tell you –

You were not only my manager but my mentor, my best friend, my well-wisher, a big brother who towered over me to protect me from all my mistakes! (in my mind of course!)

I remember the day when the meeting on appraisal was cancelled in front of the whole management team and I was reduced to tears. I was confused with anger, frustration and embarrassment all flooding my mind and psyche together. I wanted to shout and simply walk away from room - away from PAS.
You waited patiently and kindly for me till the conference - room was empty. You went and talked to the concerned person and made sure my side of the story was heard…I still see you walking towards his cabin, sitting on the table near my chair and trying to placate my shaken self…

I was about to resign that day – but I stopped – for you.

I made mistakes. And you forgave. Always. Patiently.

Till I met you, I never knew a mathematical mind could be so spiritual, so brute honest and yet so very much humane. A financial wizard, a 33 year old CEO, the man who carried his bag on his back, who travelled in auto (when required) without embarrassment, who stood in line during lunch hours…..man who could talk to numbers and see the pattern we average mind could not .. the man you could call at 3 am and know that if there is anybody who can rush to your help – it is him …(I have heard some stories I don’t want to write here..) …the man who wanted to dole-out good bonus to his team so that they could buy a house and a car .....the man who believed in SEMCO style of working ....the man who was temperamental and yet so patient!!

You were the monk who sold his Ferrari, the Howard Roark, the man I admire so much – MY HERO and a hero to lot of analytic-brains on the floor


Did you know?

- I was almost certain that you will throw me out when I announced my pregnancy only after 4 months of joining PAS , but I was surprised that you were “genuinely” happy for me
- I was immensely touched by the fact that you had asked people not to smoke around me because I was pregnant!!
- Manjunath P made sure I did not get down the bus during our off (on)-site trip to Kerala because I was pregnant – Vaidehi, Vani and Manjunath would make sure I had fruits and disposed my plates with their own hands!
- I had a godh-bharai rasam in office , obviously in south – Indian fashion. Vaidehi and Vani did all the rituals to make sure I did not miss my parents and family in the seventh month of my pregnancy (offered me clothes, bangles, etc..)
- Dr. Shan fed me with home-made biryani (cooked by his mother) when I was in the initial phase of pregnancy and could not eat anything
- On my farewell day Harish (senior) held my hand and said he loved me for the person I was. that was one of the best compliments I have ever had from a colleague
- I loved the fact that Kumar had asked the ISO auditor to give me a slot for audit in the schedule timeline that suited my need since I had a baby to take care of and I could not be in office for so long……. I was touched…
- That, there are innumerable instances when I have felt a sense of gratitude towards you for not judging me and giving me my space to perform the way I wanted to ….
- That, I always prepared thoroughly for out meetings on Friday and would have a panic attack 30 mts prior to the meeting – I would pray fervently to GOD for the cancellation of the meeting!!!!

………..That when I left PAS
I left a part of me there

Will I ever be passionate about any other place the way I was for SAVILLS and PAS…will I be again blessed with a manager like SIR and YOU…. Will my belief, that in the cut-throat corporate world, you can survive with honesty and passion, stand me in good stead… I don’t know …time will tell…

As of now, I am missing the coffee smell ….and the fact, that out there, within the glassed walls and working cubicles it is possible to find happiness and satisfaction not only professionally but also personally ....that managers like YOU exist !

PS: :)
Since you cannot, by any means, appraise me, revise my salary or promote me now, i am free to express what i felt so deeply but could not express in so many words for fear of being taken otherwise :)

One choice.

One choice.
That’s all it takes.

When I was young I thot nothing could go wrong

But as I grew older I started understanding that, in ignorance and in innocence, some choices made can cost you heavily, and you keep paying the EMI for them in life, thru out your living

Not all the choices made by heart/instinct ends well

Sometimes our conditioning to see world in good light convinces of goodness that does not exist actually. The philosophy that what you give comes back to you is redundant in my diary. It makes no sense to me at all.

What happens when a ray passes thru a glass? – a white transparent glass and a blue glass……there are two end products – same ray in form of white and blue in two separate given variables. What come out are the color of glass not the quality / entity/reality of ray that passed thru it. It is colored by the elements thru which it passes. If it is passed thru solid it might not pass thru at all!

So is the human life and giving. We might give with purity but what comes out as end product is colored by the elements we have given this to, so when you surrender with pure emotion it might be construed as weakness, when you care it might be seen as anxiety, when you want to preserve a thing about you it can be interpreted as self-centredness and so on. It is true in any relationship equation – with strangers, with friends, with family ….. with anybody

It is a cumbersome matrix of choices because you are not living “solo”. It is intertwined with a lot of other choices of entities in your life

It is important we think and we really think before making a choice – goodness, karma, and nothing-can-go-wrong attitude is all fine if the end result is the assumed END. But it might not be so always… the maturity to know that there are other innumerable possibilities of end is important – especially if the choice made is for the lifetime and living

You left.....

Note :  -i dont intend to have any comments on this post...only the prayers...forgive my rudeness..for i have no love to share today ....i cant give you what i dont have..

So you left...
how was it Abha...
on 4th of may ... what did you go thru to end your journey....
did you try talking to anybody?
you were so soft spoken, so courteous
did i ever tell you ..though you were younger to me i looked up to you
for your warmth and honesty

then what happened
was the existence so painful that you chose to quit
did it hurt baby
were you lonely sweetheart...very lonely.....very....
did you regret it even for a second
did you think of any of us ?

you were a courageous girl
things would have gone out of hand i am sure

where are you now
did you see HIM
did you question HIM
why all this at such a young age?

are you free now
from pain and questions

did you feel unloved........Abha........did you feel unloved when you treaded towards the end

i am sorry
we all are sorry
for not being able to make to your helplist
guess we were not able to convince you

i am sorry

which color am i ?

when i was born
i was a white
pure, serene, spiritual white

then came the layer of blue
unconditional love , blue

it was streaked by green at some places
jealous, envious, competitive green

i turned my search to one
and put a layer of mauve

strokes of red in happiness and grey in sadness followed

slowly...gradually....the hue is turning black
soot of experiences and baggages
anger, frustration, losing battles, battered dreams, crushed hopes
covering all the other layers
rendering them meaningless....

my canvas is soot black
i dont know where to begin
how to clean
how to go to white

which painting to make ?

Pray for them..and all those who need our prayers...

I am reposting an article for somebody who has requested the same on her blog...

Pray for them

http://mcclintockb.blogspot.com/2010/05/help.html

"Imagine This Being Your Home where you sleep, where your kids toys are, your life...." ..this is what she wrote....