Srinagar, Aug. 23 -- On a bitter winter morning in the early 1960s, in Tangmarg, just 23 miles from the capital city, a young Akhtar Purvez watched a neighbour mount a horse and ride ten miles to summon a doctor.
Hours later, the physician returned the same way.
By then, the patient had died.
"That memory stayed with me," Purvez recalls. "It wasn't just the loss of life. It was the intense feeling of unmitigated suffering, helplessness, and the relief that was out of our reach."
He grew up in a place where hospitals were distant, doctors rare, and families often relied on prayer, herbal remedies, or hope.
Those early experiences left a lasting impression on the boy who would go on to practice pain medicine in the United States, still...
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