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Featuring this month, another of Scugog’s women physicians, who spent time in Calgary and Nepal before coming to Port Perry. PART ELEVEN Dr. Amanda Pawley Dr. Amanda Pawley scratched one item off her ‘bucket list’ early in her medical career, after testing her medical skills as a physician at a base camp on Mount Everest. Every day, doctors around the world courageously dedicate their lives to conquering medical hurdles. For Dr. Amanda Pawley, spending four months at Mount Everest’s base camp tending to climbers, trekkers and locals — without the aid of technology or electricity — was the ultimate test of her ability. “It was interesting from a medical standpoint,” explains Amanda, recalling the days when a typical night's sleep involved a sleeping bag in a small hut 16,000 feet above the ground. And a typical day on the job included nothing more than a medical kit and a fold-up bed. “You couldn’t rely on anything but your- self.” Amanda always dreamed of seeing Everest, “It was on my bucket list,” she says proudly. As a natural athlete, who was born to be outdoors, she jumped at the opportunity in the spring of 2000 to visit one of nature’s greatest marvels. Shortly after her medical residency, which she completed through the University of Calgary in 1998, Amanda headed to the Himalayas in Asia to work as a volunteer doctor on behalf of the Himalayan Rescue Association of Nepal (HRA). Please turn to page 18 FOCUS - DECEMBER 2010 19