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"I can give my patients the opinion of a doctor who has experienced death"
PILAR MANZANARES Madrid
...impossible, we had to just take everything in small stages. Uncertainty makes us less effective. As you were studying medicine, you instantly became the emergency doctor. What was that like? Awful. Very hard indeed. I suddenly found myself having to make ... luggage became disinfectant, razors became scalpels, rugby shirts were used as bandages... and there wasn't a single doctor among us, only me with the soul of a doctor. During those months lost in the Andes, you must have found that the term 'never ... didn't find us, they forgot all about us, many of our companions died...." It was your idea to eat the dead and as a doctor you knew there was no other option, but it must have been very hard to tell the others that and to actually do it. Obviously,