A Young Doctor's Harrowing Choices

Brut India

To save or not to save? Rohan Aggarwal, a junior doctor at a Delhi hospital, has to make unimaginably hard choices every day. And he hasn’t even finished his medical training yet.

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00:00What job we are assigned is what is to be decided by God, whom to be saved, whom not

00:20to be saved, and we are not made for that, we are just humans.

00:39It's very tiring to look at each patient and people are really sick out there in wards.

00:46Let's see, now I have to do this OPD, then I'll go to ER duty and it's a 24-hour duty.

00:52So, anticipating all that and feeling tired.

01:15♪

01:39Where should the patient go? How should he die?

01:43We are already using our resources to our best possibility and we are using everything we have at this moment.

01:54From basic level to the top level, everybody is working behind me.

01:57♪

02:05I just want a break, an hour or so outside the hospital so that I can just recollect myself, I can just go out of that atmosphere.

02:15♪

02:19My parents keep asking me what happened, how was your day?

02:22I try to be very positive because I can't tell them all this negativity.

02:26I can't take this negativity with me at my home. I try to be very positive.

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02:43That beep sound is continuously in our head, even while we are sleeping.

02:46That beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, that casualty noise, the ICU noise, that continuously goes in our head, in our ears, every time, every day.

02:55♪

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