Meet the 79-Year-Old Surgeon Who Never Took a Day Off in His Over 2 Decades of Career

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For over two decades, Dr. Tsering Norbu has performed more than 10,000 major and minor surgeries. However, despite retiring as a surgeon in 2001 and continuing to serve patients tirelessly in a charitable hospital for five years, he still helps his community residents, to this day of which some elderly patients only trust his advice.

Born to parents who were farmers, Dr. Norbu, of Ladakh in the region of Jammu and Kashmir, India, served as a medical officer for 10 years after completing his MBBS. He subsequently became a surgeon at the Sonam Norboo Memorial Hospital in Leh upon finishing his Master’s degree in General Surgery in 1978.