

East Coast years Chopra taught at the medical schools of, and, and became Chief of Staff at the New England Memorial Hospital (NEMH) (later known as the ) in, before establishing a private practice in Boston in endocrinology. He earned his license to practice medicine in the state of Massachusetts in 1973, becoming in internal medicine, specializing in endocrinology. After passing he arrived in the United States to take up a at in, where doctors from overseas were being recruited to replace those serving.Between 19, he completed residencies in at the in, the, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.


The Indian government had banned its doctors from sitting the American Medical Association exam needed to practice in the USA, consequently Chopra had to travel to Sri Lanka to take it. It was during his early career that he was drawn to study, particularly, to find a biological basis for the influence of thoughts and emotions.He married in India in 1970 before immigrating, with his wife, during the year to the United States. He spent his first months as a doctor working in rural India, including, he writes, six months in a village where the lights went out whenever it rained. His father was a prominent, head of the department of medicine and cardiology at New Delhi's Moolchand Khairati Ram Hospital for over 25 years he was also a lieutenant in the British army, serving as an army doctor at the and acting as a medical adviser to, viceroy of India.Īs of 2014 Chopra's younger brother, is a professor of medicine at and on staff at.Chopra completed his primary education at in New Delhi and graduated from the in 1969. Contents.Biography Early life and education Chopra was born in, India, to Krishan Lal Chopra (1919–2001) and Pushpa Chopra.His paternal grandfather was a sergeant in the. Chopra's treatments generally elicit nothing but a, and have drawn criticism that the unwarranted claims made for them may raise 'false hope' and lure sick people away from legitimate. Has said that Chopra uses 'quantum jargon as plausible-sounding '. This has led physicists to object to his use of the term quantum in reference to medical conditions and the human body. Chopra argues that what he calls ' cures any manner of ailments, including cancer, through effects that he claims are literally based on the same principles as quantum mechanics. Philosopher states Chopra attempts to integrate with to justify his teachings.
