Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Nora Z: Haren Joshi & Pratima Tolat
These doctors specialize in vascular, trauma and ophthalmology. After 34 years of working in USA as a vascular / trauma surgeon and my wife as an ophthalmologist we decided to go to remote part of India where no health care was available. we took over a defunct government hospital and turn it around providing basic services to poor people. There were about 5-10 pt before now we see about 250 tp 300 pt and about 1000 op a month. we do cleft lip surgery once a year. Our experience in working in rural tribal area. How difficult is to start and how to overcome local resistance and be successful. How to work with local government machinery and get help from them to serve poor people. At the end how it makes us happy.
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I have made contact with my speakers, and I am planning to send the interview email on Sunday (after the play is over). My research is a little...lacking. I have extensively read their website and done a little bit of research about the caste system in India to prepare for my questions in the interview. But that's about it.
ReplyDeleteNora, I can't get over how cute your bunny picture is. Don't stress out - you've already done quite a lot considering you've been having 7 hour rehearsals every night this week. The only thing I suggest is that when you interview them for the first time, to just ask some introductory questions and really just get to know them. After you've done some more research, you can call them and have a really hard-core interview.
ReplyDeleteOne piece of advice I owuld give you is to write the interview questions before hand so as not to have to make questions up on the pot. However, be flexible go with the flow and ask questions based on what your interviewee wants to talk about. Don't be afraid to ask your questions out of order you can always come back to questions or save them for the second interview.
ReplyDeleteDon't limit yourself to just studying the caste system, it is a large part of the culture, yet there is more important and prevelant stuff that I think would give you more to talk about with your speaker such as why locals do resist the help, and the traditions seen more often in rural areas versus just the cities.
ReplyDeleteOk, first of all I'm sorry I haven't remembered to update this. I just received the email from Dr. Joshi with the answers to my second round of questions, and it's going...okay. I mean, he answered my emails and is a nice guy, but it just doesn't seem like he has that much to say. And a reason for that might be that we're doing it over email rather than by phone so his answers are kind of limited, but I don't know if calling him would really help. It seems like he would just repeat the same things he already said...
ReplyDeleteAlso, I'm gonna come in and talk to you (Mr. Shulman) tomorrow, because I had a lot of trouble with the whole caste system issue.
So I am basically at the point where we've had two different correspondences and I'm probably ready to write the draft, but I'm just not so sure that I can get 800 words out of it.