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  • 4/18/2025
Nearly 800 doctors fighting in the frontline died of Covid-19 in 2021. This is how their everyday lives looked during the horrid second wave.
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00:00What would I do with the oxygen if it is not given in time?
00:03The job we are assigned is what is to be decided by God.
00:07Whom to be saved, whom not to be saved.
00:09Those were really trying times.
00:11And we used to work for almost 12-14 hours at a stretch.
00:30What job we are assigned is what is to be decided by God.
00:42Whom to be saved, whom not to be saved.
00:44And we are not made for that. We are just humans.
01:00What would I do with the oxygen if it is not given in time?
01:17What face I will show to God if my patient dies?
01:21What do I tell people? I could not give you oxygen.
01:24Very unfortunate condition.
01:26We probably, you see, we as a doctor, we as a hospital, we are supposed to give life.
01:32If we cannot give them oxygen even.
01:34What is the situation?
01:36When patient comes to, patient will die.
01:38Patient will die.
01:57Those were really trying times.
02:00And we used to work for almost 12-14 hours at a stretch.
02:05But the duty precedes that call.
02:09And that's why we keep on working.
02:12But that is very satisfying because no profession in the world is more satisfying than this profession of medicine.
02:20And I am very proud about being a doctor.
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