Having been a private practitioner, Dr. Singhal, a highly successful orthopaedic surgeon, appears to be intrinsically motivated and satisfied despite the challenges of long working hours and high levels of stress. He is very caring and responsive to his patients. He also enjoys the trust of his patients. He is never guided by crass commercial considerations that a private medical professional is generally dreaded about. To the poor and indigent patients, he is known to be providing free treatment. For him his patients are more important and he treats them equally and alike irrespective of their social strata. Satisfaction level in his patients is very high as he makes differences in their lives. I have been observing his professional skills for the last five years based on my personal family experiences.

Presently, Dr. Singhal is working as a consultant orthopedic surgeon in three super specialty hospitals, Indo-Gulf Hospital, Noida, Fortis Hospital, Noida and Shanti Gopal Hospital, Indirapuram in the National Capital Region. He also runs a clinic in Indirapuram.

Born in 1979 at Meerut, Dr. Ankur did his MBBS in 2002 from Lala Lajpat Rai Memorial Medical College, Meerut and MS Orthopaedics from Sri Devraj Urs Medical College and RLJ Hospital, Kolar, Karnataka in 2007 and stood top most rank as a Gold Medalist. His thesis was a study in management of fractures shaft of hummers using intramedullary interlocking nailing technique.
He has experiences of substance in major and minor procedures of all types of trauma and cold cases, emergency procedures like amputation, tendon repairs, soft tissue procedures, skin grafting, flaps and management of fracture dislocations of all joints, besides having participated in innumerable Workshops on development of various orthopaedic skills including life saving skills and completed successfully American College of Surgeons’ ‘Advanced Trauma Life Support Course’. Added to this, he has over six year long MBBS and Post Graduate teaching experiences. He was Senior Resident Doctor for three years in the prestigious Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi.

Dr. Ankur, a good orthopaedic surgeon, is simultaneously learned, honest, kind, humble, energetic, enthusiastic, optimistic and efficient. He inspires total confidence in his patients and renews daily his magical relationships with them that by itself constitutes good treatment for any kind of ailment and for confronting all causes of pain and suffering. His wife Dr. Prerna Singhal, herself a specialist gynecologist of repute, when confronted to speak about her personal assessment of her husband, said Dr. Ankur is a complete, integrated person trying to help patients by being understanding and caring. He is also knowledgeable, prepared and ready to give his best, not to save lives but to make his patients as good as possible. He is also a good family man, she added.

A cross section of his patients spoke very high of Dr. Ankur, maintaining that he is caring, sincere, empathetic, open, responsive and patient friendly. He applies his knowledge with wisdom and relates to patients as a plain folks. He also counsels his patients telling them not to lose hearts as life is worth living and they should recover fast.The way he understands disease in his specialty domain and treats it, is simply superb. In his thirties, Dr. Ankur is very hard working and quite promising, to be an outstanding health provider, peers envy, patients’ coveted doctor and a shining example how ideal a doctor could be in private practices with scant regard for commercial considerations. True to the Hippocratic oath, Dr. Ankur maintains nobility of the medical profession. One wishes medical doctors in private practices could be like him to make India a healthy nation.