fe feeling that we should go out to provide the needed service to the poor people. dr. raj s program provides medical carefree of charge thanks to funding from research international which is a california-based nonprofit. he has teamed up with dr. shay, a professional plastic surgeon and reconstruction surgery. here works in boston, massachusetts w but he has always had a special connection to nepal. what bring mes to nepal is a fact that i grew up here in my early childhood and my parents worked for a international aid organization called save the children, and those early experiences growing up here shaped me for the long term, and brought me into medicine and eventually wanted me to reconnect here through a collaborate effort to bring surgery back to nepal. one of dr. rai s surgical
bill: absolutely. a psychological thing and a physical thing. it s really mental. bill: it was a mental thing more difficult than the physical? absolutely. going up to it, it s the worrying about, you know, tests, eventually. two years before i got it done, it was down to every month i m going in for tests you worry one test to the next what the result will be. bill: whether you have cancer. what about the decision to have surgery. that s it because, you know, you are a woman. the thought of having what is most associated with being a woman cut off, it s a hard hurdle to get over. you think i m not going to be me. i m going to be gross. what will my husband think when he sees me? how will other people think about me? you really it s so stupid but you do think about that. you should be thinking just health but you are thinking about that weird stuff. bill: that s huge. it s an absolute legitimate thing to think about. they have tremendous reconstruction surgery now, righ
a psychological thing and a physical thing. it s really mental. bill: it was a mental thing more difficult than the physical? absolutely. going up to it, it s the worrying about, you know, tests, eventually. two years before i got it done, it was down to every month i m going in for tests you worry one test to the next what the result will be. bill: whether you have cancer. what about the decision to have surgery. that s it because, you know, you are a woman. the thought of having what is most associated with being a woman cut off, it s a hard hurdle to get over. you think i m not going to be me. i m going to be gross. what will my husband think when he sees me? how will other people think about me? you really it s so stupid but you do think about that. you should be thinking just health but you are thinking about that weird stuff. bill: that s huge. it s an absolute legitimate thing to think about. they have tremendous reconstruction surgery now, right? yes. they have
a psychological thing and a physical thing. it s really mental. bill: it was a mental thing more difficult than the physical? absolutely. going up to it, it s the worrying about, you know, tests, eventually. two years before i got it done, it was down to every month i m going in for tests you worry one test to the next what the result will be. bill: whether you have cancer. what about the decision to have surgery. that s it because, you know, you are a woman. the thought of having what is most associated with being a woman cut off, it s a hard hurdle to get over. you think i m not going to be me. i m going to be gross. what will my husband think when he sees me? how will other people think about me? you really it s so stupid but you do think about that. you should be thinking just health but you are thinking about that weird stuff. bill: that s huge. it s an absolute legitimate thing to think about. they have tremendous reconstruction surgery now, right? yes. they have
bill: absolutely. a psychological thing and a physical thing. it s really mental. bill: it was a mental thing more difficult than the physical? absolutely. going up to it, it s the worrying about, you know, tests, eventually. two years before i got it done, it was down to every month i m going in for tests you worry one test to the next what the result will be. bill: whether you have cancer. what about the decision to have surgery. that s it because, you know, you are a woman. the thought of having what is most associated with being a woman cut off, it s a hard hurdle to get over. you think i m not going to be me. i m going to be gross. what will my husband think when he sees me? how will other people think about me? you really it s so stupid but you do think about that. you should be thinking just health but you are thinking about that weird stuff. bill: that s huge. it s an absolute legitimate thing to think about. they have tremendous reconstruction surgery now, righ