Patients get startled at first but then they accept me': 3-foot-tall MBBS doctor Ganesh Baraiya

As a medical aspirant, Dr Ganesh Baraiya was initially disqualified from the Medical Council of India from studying MBBS owing to his short height. "Whenever patients see me they get a bit startled at first," said 3-foot-tall Dr Ganesh Baraiya from Gujarat. "But then they accept me and I also forgive them for their initial behaviour." The 23-year-old, who is interning with Sir-T hospital in Bhavnagar, had to move to the Supreme Court to fight for his MBBS seat. As a medical aspirant, Dr Baraiya was initially disqualified from the Medical Council of India from studying MBBS owing to his short height. Not one to give up easily, he took the help of his school principal, approached the district collector, the state education minister, and then knocked on the doors of the Gujarat High Court. Baraiya lost the case at the Gujarat High Court but moved the the top court, and won the case in 2018. He was finally admitted into the MBBS course in 2019 and has just completed th...