After another early morning and another late start to the
van, we arrived early to the Phillips Innovation Center. The center was
gorgeous- multicolor LED lights pulsating and lots of shiny white surfaces.
Huge perk- they had a coffee machine that produced coffee without sugar. We
have been so overwhelmed by how sweet everything is in India! The sodas are
sweeter, the coffee is sweeter, we even swear the bread is sweeter. We were on
a sugar overload.
A member of the Philips team brought us to a conference room
and we were served water, tea, and coffee as we waited for a formal
introduction to Philips. They had provided us with a detailed schedule in
15-minute intervals. After this initial 15 minute introduction we were brought
to their “Unicorn Room” where we were introduced to some of their newest
innovations. At the end, they even let us play with Google Glass.
We ate lunch at Philips and then piled back in the van and
went to Narayana Health, a hospital famous for its cardiac surgeries. This
place does 15 pediatric cardiac cases every day! We got to see their PITU and
it was enormous! Its actually the largest one in the world.
We ended there in the evening and returned back to the hotel
for dinner. Sometimes the service was so crazy we could only find it comical.
At our table they would serve the men first and give Lina and I the leftovers,
so after the served us we would all have to redistribute it ourselves. They
also resisted letting us order our main dishes before our appetizers came out.
The poor other table had to watch us eat our appetizers and some of our dinner
before they were served theirs, even though they had ordered before us. All in
all, dinner took multiple hours, and the experience was a bit harrowing.
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