Welcome to the podcast, Sadguru of Mystics and Mistakes.

As a doctor, as a surgeon, we are involved with major surgical interventions.

Unfortunately, in our business, this is the only business in the world where a customer can die.

No, no. Taxi drivers.

It's, however much you try, Sadguru, to dissociate ourselves.

When you are operating, you need to concentrate and do the job.

But what comes to your mind is the young wife, young children waiting outside.

The margin of error is very small, few millimeters here and there.

Then you think what are the consequences on them.

Then you start thinking about when you are a kid, if something happens to your father, where you would have been.

We are after all human beings.

We are always torn between what we do to somebody and what could have happened to our own life.

It's a constant tension.

How do we overcome it? I've been in this profession for more than 30 years.

Still, I haven't yet mastered the art of dissociating myself from the patient's life.

Yes.

When you are given a certain responsibility which could determine the shape and scope of people's lives,

it's a big thing to carry on once, shoulders.

But the important thing is that somebody has chosen to place such a responsibility in our hands.

It's a tremendous privilege if we execute it.

Can we do the best? We can never do the best.

But we can do the best that we can do, always with life.

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