Aside from being a full-time wife and mother, Dr. Apoorva Ramaswamy makes a living helping others as a laryngologist specializing in swallowing disorders at Ohio State’s Wexner Medical Center. Ramaswamy attended Yale University, where she received a bachelor’s degree in Biology, before embarking on medical school at the same Ivy League establishment. “I actually treat patients who’ve had cancer, they’ve been cured of cancer, and now they’re dealing with the side effects, unfortunately, of a lot of our treatments. They can’t eat, they can’t communicate, they are a lot of times really suffering,” Ramaswamy explained on an episode of the “Oliver Bardwell Podcast” in December 2023.
In another interview with the New York Times in November 2023, Ramaswamy said that patients affected by cancer “know what’s important, they know what gives them that sense of purpose — spending time with their family, being able to work in their job.” And according to Ramaswamy, that’s precisely what keeps her going. “That is so important to me, being able to help them sustain that.” One way that Ramaswamy continues to help her patients is through ongoing research.
