As Fazila Lalani, MD, reveals, despite having lived, studied, and worked in New York City for virtually all of her life, she still makes regular visits to India to join up with her family and to work as a Visiting Professor at the Mission Hospital Emergency Medical Residency Program in Durgapur, approximately 3 hours from Calcutta. As she says, since she was young, every time she or her family went to India their friends would give them a suitcase full of traditional Indian clothing to donate to the less-fortunate living in the United States. Unfortunately, there is not a Salvation Army for Indian clothes in the US, so Fazila Lalani and her family would instead distribute the clothing to the poor living in the slums of Mumbai.
As a result of this, Fazila Lalani approached the Mother Teresa Orphanage for TB and leprosy patients next to the Mission Hospital in Durgapur to arrange giving clothing and other donations. She quickly became friends with the residents over a further three visits, and asked Dr Abdul 'Rufi' Sherwani, Chief Resident at the hospital to accompany her to the Orphanage. What happened next was to have a profound impression on Dr Lalani. Dr Sherwani was taken aback by the appearance of an elderly lady working at the Orphanage. After a moment questioning one of the Sisters, Dr Sherwani was certain. The woman had been brought from the orphanage to the hospital six months previously with no apparent signs of life. Despite this, Dr Sherwani had immediately given her Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
As Dr Fazila Lalani explains, one of the few negative sides of being an ER doctor is that they never see the patient after he or she has left the emergency room. To see this particular Sister serving food to the orphans without any visible signs of neurological deficiency will remain with her for the rest of her life, and, she believes, provides ample testimony to the importance of the residency training provided in a small rural town 8,000 miles away from New York City.
Currently Assistant Professor (Emergency Medicine) at the Northwell-Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Dr. Fazila Lalani graduated magna cum laude from Siena College with a Bachelor Of Arts In Biology awarded on a combined BA/MD Honors Program. The next step on her very rapid rise on the professional ladder was to gain a Doctor of Medicine qualification from Albany Medical College, Albany, New York. She then undertook her Internal Medicine Internship from the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, before joining the Jacobi Medical Center on an Emergency Medicine Residency. She followed her year at Jacobi by working at the York Hospital in York, Pennsylvania – again on an Emergency Medicine Residency.
As a result of this, Fazila Lalani approached the Mother Teresa Orphanage for TB and leprosy patients next to the Mission Hospital in Durgapur to arrange giving clothing and other donations. She quickly became friends with the residents over a further three visits, and asked Dr Abdul 'Rufi' Sherwani, Chief Resident at the hospital to accompany her to the Orphanage. What happened next was to have a profound impression on Dr Lalani. Dr Sherwani was taken aback by the appearance of an elderly lady working at the Orphanage. After a moment questioning one of the Sisters, Dr Sherwani was certain. The woman had been brought from the orphanage to the hospital six months previously with no apparent signs of life. Despite this, Dr Sherwani had immediately given her Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
As Dr Fazila Lalani explains, one of the few negative sides of being an ER doctor is that they never see the patient after he or she has left the emergency room. To see this particular Sister serving food to the orphans without any visible signs of neurological deficiency will remain with her for the rest of her life, and, she believes, provides ample testimony to the importance of the residency training provided in a small rural town 8,000 miles away from New York City.
Currently Assistant Professor (Emergency Medicine) at the Northwell-Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Dr. Fazila Lalani graduated magna cum laude from Siena College with a Bachelor Of Arts In Biology awarded on a combined BA/MD Honors Program. The next step on her very rapid rise on the professional ladder was to gain a Doctor of Medicine qualification from Albany Medical College, Albany, New York. She then undertook her Internal Medicine Internship from the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, before joining the Jacobi Medical Center on an Emergency Medicine Residency. She followed her year at Jacobi by working at the York Hospital in York, Pennsylvania – again on an Emergency Medicine Residency.
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