Courtesy of Kaiser Permanente/Mao Mei Sonkin
Pina Patel is now an attending physician in California.

Most South Asian parents love the idea of a having a doctor in the family. And it seems like many of them get their wish, judging by the astonishing number of desi doctors on ABC’s medical reality show “Boston Med,” which comes to an end Thursday. The show followed residents, doctors and nurses at three of Boston’s top hospitals.

In just the first 10 minutes of the first episode on June 24 of the eight-part series that was filmed in 2009, it looked like there were at least five.

To start with, there was the nose-ring-wearing Pina Patel, ER resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, who was under a lot of stress at work for her leadership skills as well as from her parents for being single. Read More »