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Madhuri Dixit’s in-laws ‘were not happy’ when Dr Nene decided to quit job as heart surgeon, move back to India: ‘My parents weren’t warm to this’ | Bollywood News

Madhuri Dixit married Dr Shriram Nene in 1999 and soon after getting married, she moved to the US to be with him. Dr Nene was working as a cardio surgeon in Denver at the time, and Madhuri eventually started dancing herself from films. Many years later, when Madhuri made her comeback in the movies with 2007’s Aaja Nachle, and then appeared in  few reality shows as a judge, the family decided to move back to India. In the midst of all this, Dr Nene gave up his job as a heart surgeon and started working as a medical-tech entrepreneur.
In an earlier chat shared on his YouTube channel, Dr Nene said that his parents were not happy that he left his job as a heart surgeon as from the outside, it appeared that he was living the perfect life. “I am Indian. I grew up from an immigrant start and my parents certainly weren’t happy that I am leaving the prototypical job of a heart surgeon and kind of every Indian’s wet dream with like perfect sort of situations and lots of friends and the head of the hospital. But I could operate, at the most, on 3-5 patients with open heart surgery and in a year maybe 500 patients,” he said.
Dr Nene said that he had dabbled in tech entrepreneurship as a teenager but as he grew older, his parents told him to either be a doctor or an engineer. “I had been a tech entrepreneur before with a software company at 14. My folks said that the only way to move forward is become a doctor or engineer,” he said that after being a doctor for 20 years, he “loved it” and found it very “rewarding.”
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“I was very rewarded and to see patients leave the hospital healthy and to interact with their families and make a difference in their lives was amazing but when I looked at the planet, I said there’s 7 billion people. I said what if you could take health care as is traditionally practiced and then use a combination of media and technology to take it to the last mile and create digital frontiers where you can put a doctor in everyone’s pocket,” he said.
Dr Nene said that he gave up his day job as a surgeon in 2011 and his colleagues were “devastated.” “In 2011, when I gave up my day job as a practicing clinical heart surgeon, you can imagine the responses. My partners were like, ‘What are you doing? We need you here’. My staff was devastated,” he said and added, “My parents initially weren’t warm to this and when they saw what I had done with some of the start-ups, they wanted to write cheques.”

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