Is it possible to feel the pain of another person? Well in the case of Dr. Ratnakant Patil, the answer would be of course yes. He can understand the agony and the pain which a migraine patient undergoes because he felt it himself.

In 1966, when Dr. Patil was 26 years old, he walked out of the examination hall without completing his paper. The reason was severe migraine headache. It was his final year MBBS examination at Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore. However, his supportive and sympathetic professors later allowed him to finish his paper in an empty hall. In his younger days, Dr. Patil thought that migraine was incurable and that he had to suffer for the whole of his life as no doctor was able to help him.

In the early 70’s, while he was working as a gynecologist in a hospital in Denmark, he came across an article about acupuncture and its benefits. At that time Dr. Patil was himself suspicious about how anybody could cure a person using a set of pins and needles. But today, he is a proud owner of a clinic at Bangalore where migraine patients and patients of chronic aches and pains get cured using acupuncture therapy. His clinic is named as ‘Kampo Clinic’ and it is situated at Cunningham road. The word ‘Kampo’ means healing in Japanese.

He started his clinic in 1982 in a rented room at the same location and he was surprised to see the number of patients who were ready to try acupuncture therapy. He used to treat 10 to 15 patients in a day, and he still treats the same number of patients in a day even after 19 years. He started studying acupuncture for his own cause but now he is also helping a large number of patients. The services offered by the clinic have increased over the years. Some of them are multiple-Chinese treatment, the Japanese single needle Royodarku method and Depo-acupuncture, where a needle stays in the patient for three days.

Today he is both a doctor and an entrepreneur, and is the best example to prove that sometimes pain can also bring gains, not only for yourself but for others too.

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