Dr. K
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And so I grew up with certain financial advantages where I could afford to apply to medical school for three.
I didn't get accepted to medical school for two years.
I applied 120 times, got accepted finally with number 120.
But just if you look at the amount of money it takes to do that, to survive for three years and just keep applying to medical school, not many people can do that.
So I think one of the reasons that you see so many successful Indians in America is because they just have financial advantages.
So like who goes to โ like all of my kids' friends, their parents like who came from India like all went to IIT.
So there's just a real financial advantage.
I think there's also a cultural advantage.
So my dad was like poor.
Like his parents were in debt.
My grandmother would tell me stories about how โ
This is something that like my children will never understand.
I don't even understand.
So they would run out of like sugar on the 25th of the month and they don't get more money until like later.
And there was like rationing and stuff like that in India.
And so, you know, this concept of like in my house, when you run out of sugar, you go to the store and you buy more.
Like that was just not a thing.
Like even when you went to the store, there was rationing.
So you couldn't buy more.
And so they would do things like hide sugar in certain places and just stuff like that, right?