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1st April 2019
MANTRA FOR SCORPION STING? - 12
MANTRA FOR SCORPION STING? - 12
DR R.D. LELE
Profiles in Courage
When I was working on the staff of a British Hospital in
1956, I saw a young man, aged 25, who came with a short history of fever and
pallor. He was engaged to be married in the next six months and his fiancee
accompanied him. Unfortunately, investigations confirmed my worst suspicion-he
had acute myeloblastic leukemia which had no satisfactory treatment and the
usual life expectancy was six months. This was explained to the fiancee. It
would have been quite understandable if she had decided to break off the
engagement, but her response was something that I had not expected from a
'western girl. She said: "If he is going to live for six months, then I wish to
give him as much happiness and comfort as I possibly can - I will marry him immediately
and care for him”. Nobility of the heart can be seen in ordinary persons and as
John F. Kennedy said in his Profiles in Courage, the battlefield is not the
only place where we meet courageous people.