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"NO MATTER WHAT MEDICAL SKILL
LEVEL A PERSON HAS ATTAINED,
COMPASSION SUPERSEDES ALL."
2 6 | PULSE S u m m e r 2 0 1 5
Clockwise from upper left: Mercado
survives a Nepal aftershock
unscathed; administering a breathing
treatment to an asthmatic woman in a
Kathmandu displacement camp; aerial
view of the camp; demonstrating
some "subpar breakdancing
techniques" at a women's monastery
provides some much-needed levity.