Asst. Prof. Dr. Samira Chowdhury

About Asst. Prof. Dr. Samira Chowdhury

I sat in her waiting room for about forty minutes before I got to see her. The place was packed. Women of all ages. A young girl with her mother, both looking nervous. An older woman who seemed to know the receptionist by name. Nobody complained about the wait. That told me something. Dr. Samira Chowdhury came out herself to call the next patient. Not through a speaker. She just walked to the door and said the name. Small thing. But you notice it. She is a gynaecologist. MBBS, MCPS, DGO. The kind of doctor who could have set up shop in a fancy Dhaka clinic and charged whatever she wanted. She chose Narayangonj instead. I asked her why once. She said the women here need it more. Straight answer. No drama. Her patients trust her in a way that is hard to describe. One woman told me she traveled three hours by bus just for a follow up. Three hours. She said Dr. Chowdhury was the only doctor who actually told her what was wrong instead of just writing a prescription. That stuck with me. She also teaches. Assistant Professor. But she does not stand in front of a class and read slides. I watched her with a group of students once. She made them examine a patient one by one. Each student had to say what they found. If someone missed something, she did not scold them. She just asked them to look again. That is teaching. Her chamber is not luxurious. A desk. A screen for ultrasound. A stool. The walls have no framed certificates hanging everywhere. I spotted one degree on a shelf behind some files. She does not need to prove anything to anyone. She handles cases that would make most people queasy. Fibroids that grew for years untreated. Ovarian cysts the size of a grapefruit. Women who hid their symptoms because they were embarrassed. She never makes them feel stupid for waiting. She just says lets see what we can do now. I heard a story from one of the nurses. A patient came in hemorrhaging late at night. Dr. Chowdhury lived twenty minutes away. She made it in twelve. The nurse said she walked in tying her hair back, asked two questions, and went straight to the OT. No panic. No wasted movement. Regular check ups are something she pushes hard. Most women she sees have never had a pelvic exam before. They are scared. She talks them through it. Tells them exactly what she is doing as she does it. That simple act of communication makes all the difference. The thing about Dr. Chowdhury is she does not try to impress you. She is not trying to build a brand or a social media following. She just shows up, does the work, and goes home. Her patients find her through word of mouth. One sister tells another. That is how reputation works in these parts. I asked her what keeps her going. Long hours. Difficult cases. Patients who cannot always pay. She said you do not do this job for gratitude. You do it because someone has to. Then she smiled and walked back into her chamber to see the next woman waiting.

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