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In 1992 I was a tourist in India, visiting the Taj Mahal. There I met a young girl, perhaps nine years old, who was on vacation from Calcutta with her family She spoke beautifully precise English, and she and I fell into conversation. In the usual manner of adults, I asked her what she planned to be when she grew up. She replied that she planned to be a physician. She explained that she came from a very well-to-do family, but that in India, many people were very poor. Therefore, she would become a physician in order to help the poor. “It is my dharma, “ she explained.
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Davis, D.S. The role of Dharma in the understanding of professional morality among Hindu physicians in India. Monash Bioethics Review 15, 29–36 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03351203
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