രാജു പുറത്തിറങ്ങിയപ്പോൾ ഡാകിനി എന്ന കാക്ക കരഞ്ഞു – കാ കാ . എന്നും രാജു പുറത്തിറങ്ങുമ്പോൾ അത് കരയും . അവൻ ഇട്ട പേരാണ് ഡാകിനി . പത്താം ക്ളാസിൽ ആണ് രാജു അതിനെ നോട്ട് ചെയ്തത് . എപ്പോ പുറത്ത് ഇറങ്ങുമ്പോളും മുറ്റത്തെ മാവിന്റെ മേലെ ഇരുന്ന് അത് കരയും . എന്തിനാണോ എന്തോ . അന്നാണ് മെഡിക്കൽ എൻട്രൻസ് . ഇതിനു വേണ്ടി ആണല്ലോ കഴിഞ്ഞ പതിനെട്ട് കൊല്ലമായി കഷ്ടപ്പെടുന്നത്. ഉറക്കമിളച്ചത് , […]
Category: Stories
The Important Thing-Intern in Surgery.
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 […]
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. […]