“When I was small, I used to go to a local school near my house. And then I was moved to a very big school. Everything was big there. Many students would be dropped off and picked up in cars. My mother and father came from a village and back then, we didn’t have a house, we rented a flat. There was a little bit of inferiority in me because of all this. And I started to lose focus in my studies. My mother worked in a bookshop and my father was a government employee. They were really hard workers. In my heart I never wanted to disappoint them. I remember, once my teacher had called my mother in school and told her that I wasn’t performing in my class. All my mother wanted me to do was study well. That day, I saw her cry with a lot of hurt, which became a turning point in my life. I decided I would be a doctor. Just a few months and I will be done with my MBBS.” (Jenish Bhandari, Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad, Pakistan)