IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: RAM SHRIRAM - INTERNET PIONEER

Indian-born Kavitark Ram Shriram is a founding board member of Google and one of it's major shareholders. He has also served as an officer at Amazon.com when the company was still in its early days and an early officer at Netscape.  The billionaire currently serves on the boards of Plaxo, Zazzle and PodShow and on the advisory board of Naukri.com, an Indian classified ads web site.

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[USC]

Incidentally, here is someone whom you might want to consider for your immigrant of the day in the near future (I might have suggested his name before and you might have featured him):

http://www.lenoxhillheartvascular.com/handler.cfm?event=practice,template&cpid=12751

http://www.lenoxhillheartvascular.com/handler.cfm?event=practice,template&cpid=11941

[USC]

Greg, thanks for your kind words. Incidentally, some of the nurses were truly great. Also, I wasn't the one who was unwell; it was a family member. I will drop you the belated email next week.

[Greg Siskind]

USC - Sorry about your bad experience with the nurses and sorry you have been out of commission. I'm glad you're well. Looking forward to hearing regularly from you again.

Greg

[USC]

Greg, I had a medical emergency in the family on 1/23. Things turned out well and I am getting back to normal. I will email you next week.

On a side note, I have always been told by my physician friends and friends who have had the misfortune to have a loved one admitted in hospital that immigrant nurses have an obnoxious attitude. Regretfully, my personal experience has confirmed this. White American born nurses were most competent and caring; those from India and the Philippines were not (with the exception of one nurse from Kerala). Thus, I now feel that nurses should have no special exceptions when it comes to immigrant visas.