VIDEO | An earthquake shook the operating room, and the doctors did not let go of their patient: this is how they protected her with their own bodies

The operating room is shaking. It is not a metaphor: this is Cali, it is Monday, and the ground is really moving.

Inside, a patient is in the middle of neuroanesthesia surgery. The residents who were supposed to assist the specialist could have run toward the exit like everyone else in the building. They did not. They stayed, holding the patient and the equipment with their own hands, face-to-face with the tremor, so that nothing would move from its place while the world around them did.

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El terremoto sorprendió a muchos equipos médicos en medio de cirugías y aunque su instinto de supervivencia les pedía salir del lugar, su corazón los obligó a permanecer allí y cuidar a sus pacientes inconscientes con sus propios cuerpos y sus propias vidas. Gracias a todos ellos por su valioso trabajo y compromiso.

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The Valle del Cauca Society of Anesthesiology and Resuscitation later shared that moment and summed it up in a phrase that is now spreading across the country: vocation was stronger than fear. There was no movie-style heroism, only an oath that does not tremble even when the earth does.