Successful Entrepreneur Stories
Bloggers World, July 2008

Successful Entrepreneur Stories
Bloggers World, July 2008

IN Dr Rajesh Shah's 5,000 sq ft clinic in Chembur, Mumbai, a team of nine doctors divide their time between treating visiting patients and chatting on the internet. Nowadays, they spend more and more time in front of the computer screen and their boss is not complaining. After all, they help run a global clinic in a combined offline-online format. And they're winning more and more converts to their chosen practice, homeopathy.

Dr. Rajesh Shah, M.D.(Hom.) practices in Mumbai, India. He has studied homeopathy intensively for twenty years. Dr. Rajesh is an internationally acclaimed physician and teacher. Over the years he has conducted seminars and workshops for the practitioners and the students in England, Holland, Belgium, Czech Rep., Greece, Sweden, U.S.A., Ireland, Croatia, Norway, etc.

Dr. Shah has an uncommon strength of having a research base in his clinical environment. He has worked on many new therapeutic molecules; some of them have been granted Patents while some of them are international patent pending. He is a hardcore researcher + clinician + teacher + promoter of homeopathy.

Dr Shah presents a modern and scientific face of homeopathy. His huge practice supported by clinical research based data, statistics and scientific documentation, makes it unique in the homeopathic worked. He not only presents the 'new face' of modern homeopathy; but also responsible for 'new phase' in homeopathy. His global clinic in Mumbai is visited by patients from all over the world.

His team of nine full time doctors and other support staff not only offer the best of homeopathic treatment but rather set international standards in Good Homeopathic Medical Practice (GHMP).

Dr Shah has a distinction of having treated eminent patients from various faculties such as scientists, medical doctors, researchers, diplomats, ministers, film celebrities, professors, high profile government officers, etc. from many countries.

Homeopathy has become so popular in India that it is often considered part of its traditional medical systems. But the world over, while newer converts are being won every day, it is still in the backwaters of medical science, Dr Shah says. Even a few year ago, the awareness was very low. "Since my college days I felt very bad about the way homeopathy was not given its due respect as a mainstream medical form," says Dr Shah, who used to distribute leaflets to popularise the discipline among his friends. "I felt it was my responsibility to make people aware of homeopathy so I saved from my pocket money to print those leaflets."

It would be another decade before the dream started taking shape. In 1995, internet came to India and Dr Shah immediately knew he had the answer. He started learning nuances of the Web. He learnt web designing and content development. His only companion was his wife, Dr Rupal Shah, another homeopathic doctor. Next year, he launched his first web site Classical Homeopathy. It was an instant hit. People from all over the world sought advise online. Within a year, he started launching Web sites catering to specific disease complaints. Patients could get instant consultation, while the medicines would be shipped for a charge.

"It is a huge responsibility when patients come from abroad for treatment," he says sitting at his clinic, while a colleague treats online a leucoderma patient from a Swedish village. "I feel compelled to cure him. I have the added responsibility to live up to his expectations. We can't compromise on research and have to keep on discovering new medicines to enable faster cure," he says. It has been 12 years since he took his homeopathy treatment online. He now runs 30 websites and treats from 152 countries. "My aim in life is to bring homeopathy to mainstream medicine and give it it's due," he smiles.

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