His students at his informal school include general practitioners and super specialists. Here are a few who have spoken about their guiding star.

“For medical students, his lectures are worth their weight in gold,” vouches Dr. Deepak Jumani, a GP who has been attending the OPK lectures without a break for the last 20 years.

“He is to medical education what PL Deshpande was to literature,” says Dr. Suhas Pingle, who attended OPK lectures a decade back.

“The lectures are certainly a phenomenon in the field of medicine,” notes Ishaq Jamkhanwala, medical doctor, educationist and former minister.

“OPK’s lectures on how to read ECG reports and manage allergies are the most lucid ever,” another opines.

Countless others may have not voiced their admiration for Dr. Kapoor through words, but apply the teachings of the guiding star in their daily practise.