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'''Jal Ratanji Patel''' was an Indian physician, who attended to [[Mohammed Ali Jinnah]], the founder of Pakistan,<ref name="Jinnah : India, partition, independence">{{Cite book |title=Jinnah : India, partition, independence |last=1938- |first=Singh, Jaswant |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780195479270 |location=Oxford |oclc=611042665}}</ref> during the years the latter was being treated for cancer.<ref name="Jinnah portrayed as anti-hero">{{Cite news |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Jinnah-portrayed-as-anti-hero/articleshow/19796181.cms |title=Jinnah portrayed as anti-hero |last=Date |first=Vidyadhar |date=August 21, 2002 |work=The Times of India |access-date=2018-05-24}}</ref> Patel, who was born into a Parsi family,<ref name="Jinnah’s doctor a Zoroastrian">{{Cite news |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1027597 |title=Jinnah's doctor a Zoroastrian |last=Newspaper |first=From the |date=2013-05-27 |work=DAWN.COM |access-date=2018-05-24 |language=en-US}}</ref> kept Jinnah's disease a secret which had impact on the [[Partition of India]]. In his book ''[[Freedom at Midnight]]'', [[Dominique Lapierre]] claimed that Patel had handed over a confidential file pertaining to Jinnah,<ref name="Jinnah Zoroastiran Community">{{Cite web |url=https://www.parsinews.net/jinnah-zoroastiran-community/4187.html |title=Jinnah Zoroastiran Community |date=August 28, 2013 |website=www.parsinews.net |language=en-US |access-date=2018-05-24}}</ref> and that Patel kept his patient's condition a secret on the patient's advice.<ref name="11 September 1948: Death Anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah">{{Cite web |url=https://www.youlinmagazine.com/story/death-anniversary-of-quaid-e-azam-september-11-1948/NDMz |title=11 September 1948: Death Anniversary of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah |last=M. Naeem Qureshi |date=September 10, 2015 |website=Youlin Magazine |language=en |access-date=2018-05-24}}</ref> The [[Government of India]] awarded Patel [[Padma Bhushan]], the third highest Indian civilian award, in 1962.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{Cite web |url=http://www.dashboard-padmaawards.gov.in/ |title=Padma Awards |date=2018-05-17 |website=Padma Awards |publisher=Government of India |access-date=2018-05-17}}</ref><br />
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