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Joe Frazier talking to Dinesh Palipana in 2010 not long after a spinal cord injury changed his life forever   Source: Dinesh Palipana Linked in This was Joe Frazier talking to me sometime in 2010, not long after a spinal cord injury changed life forever. I was still in the hospital. Moments like that made a big difference. Because, I hated being a patient. In the chaos of the trauma that was ablaze around me, it was disempowering, scary and confronting. Those memories give cause for reflection every day at work today as a #doctor, a lengthy journey from that time in the hospital. Apart from the memories themself, it’s not hard to remember why the patient is the centre of our activity. Mahatma Ghandi is quoted to have said, “A customer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us. We are dependent on him. He is ...