the year that was

Well its the end of December and resolutions are being made up, the year before being analysed and liquor being stocked up. Since i plan not to make a resolution and i dont drink i am left with analysing my year. Eventful is an understatement. Perhaps the most significant of my 24 long years this year has allowed me to bring an addition to my name. The suffix Dr. And yet nothings change. other than getting away with jumping the signal life is still the same. The title of doctor dint open magic doors into portals yet unknown to me(like i was expecting). And yet it allowed me to do the thing i love most. treat disease. The year has allowed me to do what i was meant to, be a doctor(as opposed to simply study to be a doctor as i did in college). So to end this pointless blog in which one sentence bears no relation to the other i say happy new year

The sick doctor.

Hi folks. i am back again. Ok its been so long that all my three readers would have forgotten me but boy has life in the hospital become hectic. we opened a new icu i started learning how to treat patients(stop asking what i was doing all these days, its a learning curve) and most importantly i found out a sick doctor does not inspire trust. how did i learn this valuable life lesson. in the most embrassing manner.
It was a rather lazy sunday evening and the whole family had cozied up for a nice time. at the perfect moment karma struck and the phone rang. A call for my uncle who is an on call doctor at our hospital(house and hospital are attached). So now my uncle is this experienced practioner whose pt trust him so much that just reading his prescriptions cures them. A very hard working professional the amazing cold weather got to him that day though and he asked me to cover for him.
So i go to the hospital and do the whole checking patient part and prescribing drugs and reassuring them their cough is not lung cancer and return home in a sefl satisfied manner. I come up all confidently ready to tell the family how i sucessfully trated the common cold(not treatable in case you have misconceptions) when i hear my uncle on the phone. the pt(the ass that she was) an old regular pt of my uncles had called up to confirm my prescription and i could over hear(in a very confidence dashing voice) " i just wanted to check up doctor because the other person(not doctor mind you) who checked me was sneezing so much that i wondered if the medicines he gives will work". just for a little side info. i suffer from allergic rhinitis which in simple language means if my nose dont like something i sneeze a lot and THIS TAKES ONE DAY TO SETTLE IRRESPECTIVE OF THE MEDICINE OR DOCTOR TREATING IT. and this dear doubting thomas of a lady assumed just cause i was sneezing i was not fit to treat a sneeze. Honestly the thinking of our ppl is miserable. but that cant be changed so il simpy pity the cardiologist with a heartattack, the proctologist with piles and the gynacologist who gets pregnant(honestly guys have an edge here), and decide resolutely that no matter how sick the sick are dont treat when your sick. So long since i have written that i myself have lost track of what i wrote. anyways catch you next time folks