While Geetika Srivastava's mother dreamed of her daughter becoming an IAS officer, destiny had other plans for her. "I come from a typical middle-class Indian family," Dr Geetika reveals. "In my family, you either become an engineer, a doctor, or an IAS officer." Since she wasn't particularly interested in mathematics, she decided to opt for biology and become a doctor.
It was only when she secured an all-India rank of 129 and was studying in the prestigious Lady Hardinge Medical College MBBS programme that she found her calling, "The turning point came during a conversation in my hostel mess when a friend spoke about the perks of being a dermatologist; I was captivated and I knew that was what I wanted to do," she recalls.
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