No mean feet

doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7443.789

BMJ 2004;328:789 (3 April), doi:10.1136/bmj.328.7443.789

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South Asian theme issue

No mean feet

Dinesh Singhal, Samiran Nundy

New Delhi

Pramod Karan Sethi, the inventor of a revolutionary artificialfoot, regrets that he has not been able to pass his idealismon to young doctors. He talks to Dinesh Singhal and SamiranNundy

The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.

It was pure chance that led Pramod Karan Sethi to take up orthopaedics."In 1958 the Medical Council of India were to inspect JaipurMedical College to see whether it was worthy of accreditation,but there was no department of orthopaedics. I—who wastrained as a general surgeon and had recently returned fromthe United Kingdom—was ordered by the principal to startone," Dr Sethi explains.

This act of expediency on the principal's part had more farreaching consequences than he could have envisaged, for Sethiwent on to design a light, hard wearing, cheap artificial footthat transformed the lives of thousands of people in the subcontinent.As Sethi worked in the Rajasthan city of Jaipur, it became knownas the Jaipur foot.

Sethi, a 76 year old who has devoted his life to helping disadvantagedpeople, believes that it was because he had not trained as anorthopaedic . . . [Full text of this article]

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