Dr Hemant Morparia

We have caught Dr Hemant Morparia in between his appointments at a hospital in South Mumbai, and, as he settles into a chair beside an ultrasound machine, he updates us on a patient's precarious position between life and death. It seems to be a rather eventful end to the day, one of those that makes the 55-year-old radiologist quip about the fun and the gravity of the practice of medicine. He then makes an anti-climactic assertion, "The fact that I am a doctor is the boring side to me."