Helping Hero?

Growing up, Sneha was described as a creative child interested in writing, painting, and music. She was also characterized as a remarkably intelligent individual filled with curiosity and dedication (Pacheco). As an undergraduate, Sneha Anne Philip attended Johns Hopkins University and later enrolled in the Chicago School of Medicine (Pacheco). She received an offer to conduct her residency at Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan, New York. However, as previously mentioned, her excessive tardiness and display of alcohol abuse cost her the medical residency she was on track to complete. Shortly after her dismissal from the residency program, Sneha filed a claim that a coworker had sexually harassed her (Fass). The report was found to be false and she was charged with constructing a false claim. Because she refused to recant her accusation, she spent a night in jail awaiting a formal court date (Fass). Her court appearance was scheduled for September 10th, 2001 (Pacheco). After her dismissal from Cabrini, Sneha accepted a medical residency intern position at St. Vincent’s hospital in Staten Island (“Indian American Sneha is 2,751st 9/11 Martyr.”). Despite her reputation of alcohol abuse, the center embraced her merit and talent as a medical student and welcomed her under the condition that she enrolls into an alcohol-counseling program. When she failed to attend one of the counseling sessions, she was suspended from the medical program (Pacheco). Based on the testimonies of those close to Sneha, her “predisposition to help others according to the highest calling of her medical profession” demonstrates the immense probability that Sneha died at the World Trade Center in an effort to provide her medical training to the people suffering from the calamitous crashing of the twin towers (“Indian American Sneha is 2,751st 9/11 Martyr”).