You know you are a doctor:
1. When the whole world sleeps, you awake to life and freedom.
2. You can get away with asking personal questions to your female patients for which you would have otherwise got 'one tight slap'.
3. You start feeling hungry on seeing the guts of the person on the OT table in front of you.
4. You see a skimpily dressed model striking a sexy pose and your immediate attention is diverted to her prominent veins and the thought of how easy it would be to administer an IV drip to her.
5. You can down quite a few pegs in one go and light a full packet of cigarettes in a day and still advise patients to give up smoking and drinking.
6. When you can get up from bed, dress, wash your face within one minute and start examining the patient by the time the minute's up.
7. When your zillion or so 'friends' and 'acquaintances' call you up in the middle of the night for your opinion on a prick on the little finger that has already been seen by another doctor.
8. When you seem to be quite proficient in giving information to the patients while successfully hiding your inadequacy and the inadequacy of your hospital.
9. When you can alter your facial expressions from a smiling benevolent creature to a grave, serious faced one within the blink of an eye or the time it takes to move from one patient to another.
10. When you say to yourself a hundred times in a day: 'I am not doing this anymore' and end up 'doing that' a hundred times over and over again in the process lying to yourself: 'its a great service i am providing to the people and to the society.'
* These are just some of the points that are coming to my mind as of now. My doc friends may add their own in the comments section, if they feel so.
SOME ADDITIONS (courtesy Dr. Kaustav Dutta)
1.Löoking at your watch everytime you finish a work and wonder if time could fly (or atleast run).
2.Your face being brightened up on seeing your replacement come on time or somehow still managing to smile even if he(most often she) coming a neat 30 minutes late!
And yes,there are times u know(and feel) you are a doctor when
1.You see a smile of satisfaction on your patient's face on being miraculously cured(with d state govt's not-so-reliable supply drugs).
2.See the healing scars of a burnt patient whose wound you have dressed for more than a month!
6 comments:
great! and comforting too. i thought i was the only one who thought of chicken legs while doing dissection!
thanx. maybe you could have contributed one or two points from your own experience too...
LOL,,,Point on, man.
You have hit all the nails, right on their pointy, shiny, bald heads...
thats not all!!!
i think there are many more such nails lying around. was hoping that you guys could point them out for me :). thanks anyway
bang on, guru!
a piece i'm going to read again and again.
Vinay da i wud like to add sumthng more-1.löoking at ur watch everytime u finish a work n wonder if time cud fly(or atleast run).
2.ur face being brigtened up on seeing ur replacement come on time or somehow still managing to smile even if he(most often she) coming a neat 30 minutes late!
And yes,there r times u knw(n feel) u r a doctor when
1.u c a smile of satisfaction on ur patient's face on being miracuosly cured(wit d state govt's not-so-reliable supply drugs).
2.see d healing scars of a burnt patient whose wound u have dressed for more than a month!
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