Unforgettable Moment Of My Life

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All of a sudden, I heard dogs barking and birds flying and within milliseconds, the whole building started shaking.I was in 2nd floor of my home studying for USMLE Step 2 CK Examinations. The aftermath of the earthquake of Nepal was huge. Thousands of people died, millions lost their home and the aftershocks terrified people months after the main quake. I was pertubed by this tragic earthquake and paused my studies immediately. I sensed my responsibility as a doctor and gathered some of my close friends and headed to remote district of Nepal with bags full of medicines, bandages and oral rehydration solution packets. It was hard-hit by the earthquake and people suffered from crush injuries, wound injuries and infections due to food and water …show more content…

I feel sorry for the people but I still feel good about myself and get that warm feeling when I think about the adverse conditions I went through just to help people without expecting anything in return. It was the break after my high school when i went to visit my uncle and grandparents in a village in Nepal.I can still remember the incident that occured in vivid details. Almost everyone in the village had gone to attend a wedding ceremony but me and few of my childhood friends went to swimming in the river nearby. When we returned, we found that almost everyone in our village looked ill and most of them were either nauseated or vomiting. The whole scenario looked chaotic. An assistant health worker(AHW), who was the only trained health personnel in the whole village started fluid infusion. I helped him by bringing bottles of normal saline from the market nearby but still, I did not feel like I was doing enough. I felt the urge to put on the gloves and start treating people myself. When the AHW told me that the cause was most probably food poisoning, I started studying about symptoms, types and treatment of food poisoning on the internet in my cellphone lying in bed. Although I did not understand every

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