Those 66 months!!!

Thought it would be nice to relive my recent past in writing my first BLOG…

Most significant event to start with must be the great common entrance test I wrote in 2004…nothing so great about the test, nor the result..got a decent rank of 237 n thought ‘ll get a medical seat easily..but then due to the unwanted drama at the time of counseling, had to juggle from medicine to engg n back to medicine….shifting places from jnmc belgaum to pesit blore to jss mysore to finally land in MSRMC blore..

Come oct 2004 n I started to do my dream course of MBBS…warm welcome from the aroma of the dissection hall, 18 of us sat for 2 weeks just staring at the decapitated cadaver…then started to dissect however v were told to…copied all histology diagrams from raksha’s record n still got a rewrite tag from ambedkar lavanya badami….) Time to prick ourselves to count how many rbc’s or eosinophils v have got in our blood during physiology practical classes….probably the only dept where anyone’ll be asked to remove his shirt to allow fellow batchmates to learn to examine various systems….so embarrassing those classes were!!!n then there was biochem practical classes…stand in a Q at the toilet to collect ur urine samples to examine if there was any sugar in it….somehow managed the whole of first year reading anatomy, cleared the other two subjects also though..

Entered second year…start of the clinics n the first patient interaction…few thought v were doctors already but many knew the truth…off to kaiwara for 10 days to interact with the community in COP…was a good experience!!enjoyed reading those big books for patho n pharmac….n did revision on the bike while riding back home with swami….) Practicals were different from first yr…looking into the microscope for hours in patho n tutoring prakasha with whom I shared the instrument with….preparing ointments n syrups in pharmac…putting eyedrops into rabbit’s eyes…never touched the guinea pig I had to inject medications…god knows what I would have done if I had got that in the exam…looking for ova n cysts in someone’s stools in micro….n hours of dozing off at the forensic lab…

Btw, for the old drama to continue our princi raised our fee to 1.5 lakhs in the midst of the 2nd yr…with the famous ‘piggy-back’ dialogue of his….had to run around justice[forgot his name]in the education board n get it all set right….was like kind of paid leave for us…got free attendance in the name of it!

Third year was cool….enjoyed my first orthopedics postings…drew mosquitoes n houseflies in commed record….brought back the mathematician in me while doing statistics problems…total timepass in ophthal n ent…best part of all was to top my batch in the 3rd yr exams n in ENT….Cool:)

N then there was the best trip of my life so far…to tirupati with rohit,swami,badri n jayant in innova during the holidays before entering final yr…

Finally into final yr, almost did nothing but studying the great books….enjoyed them actually…there was a disastrous disaster management drill for a break in between…started behaving like doctors in clinics…n finally became a DOCTOR by clearing exams decently….

All thro the years, what I didn’t mention was spending most of the time with my best buddies in the lecture hours…rohit drawing cartoons of lecturers n ourselves, badri sleeping most of the time, me n swami discussing….was fun….

I think it’s a good start for my diary covering over the past 66 months [looks shorter than 5 n a half yrs]….oh internship is pending n ‘ll blog the next time…that’s like a megaserial…

Pramod