By Mary Wade Burnside
FAIRMONT — Dr. Paul Alappat’s career as a doctor was chosen for him. “My grandfather was a doctor. My dad was a doctor. My dad wanted me to be a doctor,” said the Fairmont cardiologist.
But when it came time to select a specialty, Alappat got to do the choosing. He attended medical school in southern India.
“I was planning to become an orthopedist and then I met my wife, got married and changed my mind,” he said.
“It’s a little more definitive,” he added of cardiology. “Treatments make an impact. Intellectually, it’s more challenging than any other division of medicine.”
Alappat and his wife, Shaly, moved to New York, where Alappat did his residency at Catholic Medical Center and a year of chief medical residency at New York Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn. He then did his fellowship at New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, a university hospital composed of Columbia University Medical Center and the Cornell University Weill Medical Center.
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