Dolpo

If you would go to Nepal now, obviously a lot has happened in Nepal recently with, with the floods, but, uh, assuming everything is okay, so Nepal is 100%, you can go anywhere in Nepal right now, where would you go?

Probably the far west, so, uh, Dolpo region, because you don't really have teahouse treks there, so that automatically means it's less busy, uh, because there's the, the barrier of camping.

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No people-

Politics is the art of the pos- of the possible." So they're templates when it comes to medicine and everything else for what's common and likely, but they're not what's inevitable, and one person will die of a cancer that another will recover from.

One person with a broken neck will never walk again, and another, through luck and mystery and effort, will walk down the road towards you to greet you two years later, as an astonishing woman from Dolpo did to some of us in this room in 2017, and she might have been a 1 in 10,000 or more chance of recovering her ability to walk, a story I need to write up as part of some of our adventures there.

Diagnoses are, in a sense, assessments of how an individual case might fit into a category, but one of the refrains I go back to again and again is categories are leaky.

A doctor friend taught me the saying, and I ha- have to say, people love categories.