Dr Kusum Agarwal

The following is a tribute of a patient about her doctor who has earned the nickname of “the lady with the healing touch”. More often than not doctors are held in high esteem the world over because they put service before these days of crass commercialization of medical practice, fewer doctors are actually putting service before self. However, Dr. Kusum Agarwal's ingrained philosophy has been “परोपकारार्थम इदं शरीरम” ( this body is meant for service to others.) She had it in her even as a child to be a doctor. Even if you forget the doctor-patient games she played as a child or the single-minded devotion in being the “outstanding” student in school or winning the prestigious Dr. Jer Banaji gold medal in b.H.Medical college for homeopathy way back in 1965, one cannot forget her “burning desire” to learn more and more. She gained valuable knowledge in the USA before she embarked on her life’s dream – to serve humanity. There is a saying, “no power on earth can stop an idea, whose time has come”. The time for Dr. Kusum Agarwal's passion for healing through homeopathy had indeed arrived. She also served under Dr. Jugal Kishore of Delhi who was the renowned physician to the then president of India.