Rohit Tinni Kumar
Doctor
Rohit Tinni Kumar is a Canadian family doctor whose work has included hospital medicine, chronic pain and palliative care. In 2015, he published The Bipolar Doctor, a memoir drawing on his experiences in medicine and as a patient in the mental-health system. [1]
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Career and work
Kumar graduated from Dalhousie University’s medical school in 1990 and trained in internal medicine before establishing a career in family medicine. He has described himself as one of Canada’s early hospitalists and later ran a private medical practice in Ontario. [1]
Over more than two decades as a family doctor, Kumar also developed experience caring for patients with chronic pain, palliative-care needs and mental-health conditions. He later published The Bipolar Doctor, drawing on both his medical career and his experience as a patient in the mental-health system. [1]
