Akrit Jaswal
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Akrit Jaswal (born 23 April 1993) is a child prodigy who has gained fame in his native India as a physician.
According to his mother Raksha Kumari Jaswal, this child genius was an early starter. He skipped the toddler stage and started walking. He started speaking in his 10th month. He was reading Shakespeare at the age of 5. At the age of 7, he performed an operation on a 8 year old girl whose fingers were fused together after being burnt.[1]
He became India's youngest university student and is currently studying for a BSc in Punjab University, Chandigarh, India. He possesses books such as Gray's Anatomy, and textbooks on surgery, anaesthesia, anatomy, physiology, Cancer, and others. Akrit claims to have mastered them with his daily habit of studying for an hour.
He has an IQ of 146[2] - the highest recorded for those his age in India.[3]
Akrit Jaswal is considered to be a reincarnation in his local village. He is consulted by neighbours and people from surrounding areas regarding ailments, prescriptions and courses of treatments.
He claims to have been working on a cure for cancer for several years, based on theories of oral gene therapy.
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[edit] References
- ^ Senthilingam, Meera. Pass me the scalpel, Mummy. Impercial College Magazine, London. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.
- ^ The Seven Year-Old Surgeon. The Sunday Times. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.
- ^ Small Wonders. The Oprah Winfrey Show. Retrieved on 2007-02-13.
[edit] External links
- The seven-year-old surgeon
- Akrit Jaswal The Child Surgeon
- Surgeon aged 7
- Fletcher, Harrison. Playing Doctor. Retrieved on 2007-01-02.
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