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Feb 18, 2008 12 min

Operation Asha: Making a Difference in India

from Clinician's Roundtable

Host: Maurice Pickard, MD Guest: Shelly Batra, MD Dr. Shelly Batra talks about the reasons she shifted her focus from her private practice as a gynecologist, and a career as a best-selling physician-author and television personality, to fighting tuberculosis in India's urban slums. In India, this disease carries a stigma and, for women, can mean the loss of a job, ostracism from their own family and little hope of being married. Dr. Maurice Pickard hosts.

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