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Getting to Saragur from Mattanur is a tricky business. The shortest route isn’t necessarily covered by public transport. My initial plan was to reach Mysore via Virajpet-Hunsur and then take a direct bus to Saragur. But later, I dropped it in favour of what my mom suggested – get down at Hunsur and take a…

I joined Vivekananda Memorial Hospital as a Resident Medical Officer, on 18th April, Tuesday, around noon. VMH is a secondary care hospital started by Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement at Saragur which is a place almost 1.5 hours by bus from Mysore, but just one hour by private vehicles. There is a one year course called…

“Which is the most important part of a stethoscope?” asked the Professor. “The diaphragm”, “the tube”, “the earplugs”, came answers from students. “No. The most important part of a stethoscope is the one between the two earpieces”, said the Professor with a smile. 1 It was a regular “free” day in Orthopaedics. That means you…

After graduation, almost everyone I know went away to different so called “coaching centres” for getting into a preferable post graduation seat. I was uncomfortable with the way health education works at colleges and at “coaching centres”. So, I went away to Malki hoping to figure out everything. Daktre was waiting with a vane to…

An incredible journey has come to its natural end. I started this blog more than 5 years back while waiting in college for my admission procedures. The things that transpired in these 2048 days, I could never have imagined. The journey doesn’t end here though. I am going to continue writing about the funniest things…

It’s been a busy 9 months of internship. So busy that I had to take a casual leave to update this blog. No, just kidding. The CL was just a coincidence. (I couldn’t finish this post on that day. I’m now writing this in the free time at psychiatry department). It is just my incredible…

Wednesday: OPD  My first OPD. Showered and left early to the ward to finish work there and be at the OPD on time. It was a continuous rush of patients from 9 o’clock till the time PG asked me to go have lunch. There was everything – Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs), healing and non-healing wounds…

On the first day my PG had asked me “Hey, how do you like it here? Feeling rushed and busy?”. I replied “it’s okay”. I like rush. I like having a hundred things in my mind. But I like it only when I feel comfortable and confident about the things I have to do. And…

On 18th, we made mental calculations about which surgery unit we would be posted to, when they would have OT, etc. and then reached surgery office around 9. There was a table full of dates written against our names according to which the first half would have general surgery straightaway, being divided into units in…

I had one day of internship under my belt before the actual beginning date of internship on 18th March. This, thanks to my senior who had to prepare for his fantastic dance item for their graduation day on Friday (19th). Even before that, on 12th, when the final years organized a “summer slam” fun event…