Social conciousness anyone?

Woah…big phrase, isn’t it? Being socially aware according to me is not just talking about problems plaguing the society (like what I’m doing now!), but it also consists of doing something about it. I was talking to our family physician a couple of weeks back and she was going over some anecdotes with us. It made me realise how awfully blind we are about things around us. She is a social worker in the true sense. She treats needy people for free, she gives away medicine to them as well (what’s the point of diagnosing the problem, when they can’t afford the medicine is her take on it), she feeds anyone who comes to her doorstep, she collects clothes, stationery from her well-to-do patients and gives them to her needy patients, she buys bus charge for some of them (again, her point here is that if they can’t come to her, then she can’t help them), she visits villages regualry to treat people, she’s almost adopted 2 women in her own house and has given them education and a life (she even got one married). And her fees to the rest of the people is painfully mninmal. In these days where doctors charge a mninmum of 200 Rs (or more) for a mere consultation, she doesn’t charge first time consultations at all!! Oh well, she IS one of a kind.