Surgery residency, most young medics know, is meant to be tough. The hours. The sleeplessness. The heat, the lot. In India, a crushing hierarchy and slavish obeisance. A continuous hum of vague self-pity. Deliberate implantation of a feeling of worthlessness. The perpetual emptiness of never, ever being appreciated. It was a bit muted in JIPMER. […]
Category: Rational ruminations
Omicron- Apocalypse? Or…No.
Last month I had to get my daughter to Bangalore. She had to start her classes at the University. It was an ordeal. RTPCRs for the entire family to get out of the airport there. Then she had to be in quarantine for seven days before joining classes! Whatever for? By that time, there were […]
The Boy.
Every little boy starts out as a baby. This astonishing fact wasn’t apparent to me when the train of my autobiographical memory started getting laid (sorry laid down; if I may), in certain circuits possibly scattered throughout my cerebral cortex, I know not where, and I suspect, nor do anyone, even in this super-enlightened epoch […]
Medicine as a career- The basics.
Strewing career advice fills me with horror. I never foresaw the internet; or the mobile phone. Even now, I just can’t come to terms with the simple and widely known fact that any of my girlfriends from the remote past can reach me with the tap of a few buttons, or by speaking a few […]
A Career isn’t your whole identity- Medicine is a door to a job- or a series of Jobs. But then, so is everything.
My dad was an ophthalmologist, and I grew up in a home that doubled up as a clinic, every day when he returned from work in The District Hospital. He was exceedingly conscientious, and made sure the patients that attended the health service got proper care, before starting his private practice late, and it used […]