It was while he was a student of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, that he discovered that he had a flair for finding information that others could not find. His new found interests led him to science writing and scientometrics. No academic or research library in India receives more than 2100, and most receive only a few hundred. So access to information is a major problem in India. And for individual doctors it's even worse.
Honest doctors have so many patients to treat that they have little time to do research or read.
Other doctors are more interested in making money than reading. Many doctors are happy with the free pamphlets that drug companies give them. Probably not yet in India because very few doctors have access to the internet or email. And often medically trained people are not good with communication technology and computers. They take time to learn.