Lessons from Marias: what the titleness and nameless taught me that elite medical institutions couldn't teach me.

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In an era of rapid advancements in healthcare and technology, sophisticated treatments and pressure for speedy recoveries, contemporary physicians are often led to neglect some of the support pillars of medicine: That science, guidelines and protocols should not come before the individual; prescriptions serve little purpose without books and literacy; medications are not a substitute for nourishment. That hearing lamenting stories and watching tears run through despondent, downcast faces are sometimes our only resort. That social justice is a powerful healing instrument. That rather than treating the sickness, we shall treat the sick--helpless, deprived, forsaken and in need.