I can teach you all about the diseases, said the book. And I can teach you all about life, said the hospital. Over the course of rural posting, one invariably has to do a fixed number of casualty duties, where we stay right in the rural PHC for 24 hours and attend to any patient […]
When the going gets good, the days simply fly. Feels like a blink of an eye and I am already done with a fortnight of rural posting. I had two OPDs and one casualty interspersed with several off days in between. My first day of duty there was in Female OPD, which is the busiest
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The last week of PSM posting was at the SAMC ( Sexual and Marriage Counselling ) clinic, but not unsurprisingly it had patients only once in a blue moon. So we were mainly required to sit in the Nutrition Clinic, which is an adjunct to the Immunization clinic. We had only simple jobs there like
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Barking dogs, or for that matter any dog, do bite. I was done with two weeks of internship, and so were my batchmates and thus we were now entiteld to share our experiences with others who would be posted after us in our departments. Therefore prior to being posted in the ARV Clinic (Anti Rabies
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There may be hundreds of advancements in treatment of diseases everyday, but one would rather hope the disease didn’t happen at all. The first week of internship flew by quite fast, and it was only as the week ended that I finally came to terms with the fact that now I have a day job.
“Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.” Lucky are those who have friends that always remain by their side. Whether you will find someone like that in college is a matter of chance, but medical college does indeed promise someone who won’t leave your side right from
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“My heart swings back and forth between the need for routine and the urge to run.” Vacations don’t last forever, that is the beauty of them. The knowledge that my life will soon run by schedules and duty hours made the few days of holidays even more cherish-able, as I wanted to have all the