To pursue reconciliation between the scientific and the spiritual is a treacherous path

I grew up in India to an extended family of ten doctors. Yes, ten. Both my parents, my

grandfather, three uncles and two aunts, and my brother and cousin all took the Hippocratic

oath. Growing up in a family perfused with the practice of medicine leads to two outcomes. One, you are compelled to follow a career path as far away from medicine as possible. Two, you become convinced of the merits of evidence-based medicine and the virtues of the scientific