Chapter Four

Principle Three

Think and Act Flexibly

One cannot alter a condition with the same mindset that created it in the first place.

—Albert Einstein

With an estimated sixty-two million diabetics—a statistic expected to increase to a hundred million by 2030—India now has the second largest number of people with diabetes in the world, after China.1 The disease is being diagnosed particularly frequently in Indian villages, where 70 percent of Indians live. One person who has successfully responded to this alarming trend is Dr. V. Mohan, a globally renowned diabetes expert and chairman of Dr. Mohan's Diabetes Specialities Centre based in Chennai, capital of the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

Dr. Mohan operates a mobile telemedicine clinic ...

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