Things that matter
Dr Raghu is a young house surgeon in Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Puducherry. A year and a half back, he had spent a weekend with Dr Srikanth, Professor of Community Medicine, travelling to Cuddalore to bring a Tsunami orphan, a teenager with advanced cancer and maggots crawling over her wound, to a place in Chennai where she could take palliative care. (Please see our blog, Of Tsunami, an aerated orange drink and an omelet, from June 2015).
We asked Dr Raghu about his experience that weekend. He says, that was an unforgettable experience in his life, being called Anna (‘Big brother’) – Rani, who had so far been rejected by the whole world, the Tsunami making her and her brother orphans, her relatives rejecting them and the medical system abandoning them when she needed it the most – how she latched on to a kind person and immediately called him her big brother. About how little things matter a lot. About how, even today, he feels the satisfaction of having made an enormous difference to a human life in its last few days.
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