“We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”

That is what everybody’s favourite Harry Potter (quoted by author J.K. Rowling) says..... Though doctors do not fly on a broomstick they do echo this sentiment.

It was really inspiring to read CNN medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a Neuro-Surgeon based out of Atlanta, Georgia sharing his real life story about being a doctor and a correspondent. Quoting a couple of incidents in his own words.....

Soon after the invasion of Iraq I found myself embedded with a group of Navy doctors over there. It was unlike anything I’d ever experienced. Rocket-propelled grenades blew up near me. Our convoy went over a land mine and I was thrown out of a truck. Why had I come? I wrote a letter home, fearful it was the last I’d ever write.

Then we came upon a boy who’d suffered severe head wounds. The Navy surgeons turned to me, “Can you help us?” In that difficult situation it was an easy question. This was what I did. Neurosurgery. I was a reporter and a doctor.

When that story aired, I came under another sort of fire. “How can you be objective when you’re standing shoulder to shoulder with Navy doctors?” Another newspaper wrote that I “crossed the line.”

I disagreed. There’s a different set of rules when it comes to saving lives. Nowhere does it say that when you put on your press credentials they are a bar to your humanity. My worlds of medicine and media have come crashing together quite a bit since then, most recently in Haiti. I operated aboard the USS Carl Vinson on a 12-year-old girl named Kimberly at the request of the U.S. military. Again, the criticism was levelled, and again I wasn't fazed by it, but rather happy that Kimberly, once near death, was alive and reunited with her father.

Salutes to People like him.... they keep our world sane... Doctors Job is beautiful indeed....