I have always been sincere in maintaining the log book we have. Much to the surprise of everyone (me included).
Today in GOPD, Manish Panday was noting down some details. On enquiring why, he said to write in his log book. And then he showed it to me.
Its a simple school notebook, in which he records every day like a diary. Right from his days as a research fellow. It includes a day when he learnt how not to do anything & spend an entire day!! It includes clinical findings in small 25 paise sized fundus drawings.
It was a novel log book - diary I have ever seen.
Monday, December 10, 2007
Perspective
I was in OT the other day with Dr. Vikas Khetan, our ocular oncologist. We had two kids with retinoblastoma posted for enucleation. Sir is passionate about oncology, as I always knew & he always says. But that day he said "If you do any other surgery you will only give the patient vision & sometimes in case of VR not even that. What we don't realise is that here we actually are saving a life". Had never really thought of it that way. My appreciation for it all grew that day.
Thursday, December 6, 2007
India Private Ltd.
Have been meaning to put this up for long. Then felt its controversial. But what the hell. Its my blog. I write what I want. Privacy in India. Or rather the lack of it.
I happened to visit one of the beach stretches in Chennai the other day with a friend. Not the crowded one. It was full of young couples scattered all around. Then I heard this is a favourite place for young couples to hang out. Nobody bothers them here. And, apparently many of them were husband & wives who resort to the beach for lack of privacy at home. It brought back memories of an article in India Today about how Internet cafes with cubicles were being used by youngsters to grab a few moments of intimacy.
I also remembered, how before my MS exams when me & my colleague, a guy, had gone to this cyber cafe near KEM to see a CD with ultrasound & OCT images on it. We had been looked upon & questioned suspiciously by the guy there. :-) That was very amusing.
But not this. It certainly is not. A bachelor staying alone has a girl visit him at home, sets the neighbours in an uproar. And god forbid, if a girl staying alone got a guy home. Who are they to interfere? It is two consenting adults. What say do they have in their private matters? If they were making out in public or creating a noise or throwing late night parties that disturb everyone, it is a different matter. But what they do in the privacy of their rooms is none of their business. But if a girl visits another girl at home or a guy visits another guy it is no issue. Alternative sexual orientation does not cross the minds of these narrow minded people. Wonder how they would react if they knew the facts there. :-) :-)
I even heard our hospital had issues with giving us fellows & post-graduates duty-rooms lest we "miss use" them. Why would we, most of whom live alone outside the hospital, wish to do any thing at all in the hospital room??? Beats me.
I think it is time our country woke up. And shed these ages old hypocritical attitudes towards sex. For our population & prevalence of AIDS, Indians are the worst sexual hypocrites. Sex is natural. Our attitude towards it is not. Privacy is deemed shameful. It is more like India Public Ltd.
I happened to visit one of the beach stretches in Chennai the other day with a friend. Not the crowded one. It was full of young couples scattered all around. Then I heard this is a favourite place for young couples to hang out. Nobody bothers them here. And, apparently many of them were husband & wives who resort to the beach for lack of privacy at home. It brought back memories of an article in India Today about how Internet cafes with cubicles were being used by youngsters to grab a few moments of intimacy.
I also remembered, how before my MS exams when me & my colleague, a guy, had gone to this cyber cafe near KEM to see a CD with ultrasound & OCT images on it. We had been looked upon & questioned suspiciously by the guy there. :-) That was very amusing.
But not this. It certainly is not. A bachelor staying alone has a girl visit him at home, sets the neighbours in an uproar. And god forbid, if a girl staying alone got a guy home. Who are they to interfere? It is two consenting adults. What say do they have in their private matters? If they were making out in public or creating a noise or throwing late night parties that disturb everyone, it is a different matter. But what they do in the privacy of their rooms is none of their business. But if a girl visits another girl at home or a guy visits another guy it is no issue. Alternative sexual orientation does not cross the minds of these narrow minded people. Wonder how they would react if they knew the facts there. :-) :-)
I even heard our hospital had issues with giving us fellows & post-graduates duty-rooms lest we "miss use" them. Why would we, most of whom live alone outside the hospital, wish to do any thing at all in the hospital room??? Beats me.
I think it is time our country woke up. And shed these ages old hypocritical attitudes towards sex. For our population & prevalence of AIDS, Indians are the worst sexual hypocrites. Sex is natural. Our attitude towards it is not. Privacy is deemed shameful. It is more like India Public Ltd.
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