IT WAS internship. It was the same hospital. It seemed so familiar now, like a close relative. My first posting as a qualified doctor was in Medicine, with Dr. Baburaj. I have taken you there, in a brief encounter previously. I started learning about responsibility. It was not always great fun. My next posting was […]
Category: Guts and Glory
The Difficult Part- Beginning the Medical Wards.
I DIDN’T like them much at all. The wards, I mean. I had liked school. I was in a government run one in Thrissur. Rows and rows of tightly packed wooden benches, were packed like match boxes. Each was taut with a row of sweaty grimy boys jostling with one another for writing space. Classes […]
A Miracle in Red and Blue.
I LOOKED at the small boy in red shirt and blue shorts. He had an impish smile and dimpled cheeks. The face radiated intelligence and good humour. ‘He likes these colours. He has started choosing his clothes,’ the mother said apologetically. As a doctor I am sometimes asked this question: do you believe in miracles? […]
The Emperor- A Residency Love Story
THE GOOD thing about high hierarchy set-ups like JIPMER was that by final year, you had some illusions. I mean, you were looked up to by a small group of people. First year was slavery. The second year you are a glorified slave. The only difference is that then you are a second year slave. […]
It is All in the Mind
‘IT IS all bullshit, I tell you.’ Sasidharan had conviction dripping from his voice. He was a tall, sleek youth with unusually long hair. He had a very rational mind for an adolescent. An adolescent. The word conjures up an image of the immature; of gawky awkwardness, and of confident incompetence. But that was what […]