Saturday, May 14, 2011

The Burden of Buddhi

Dhanya topped her class from KG to PG, while being second for only one term in Std. VIII. She is a gold medallist Doctor from CMC Vellore. She was the best outgoing student there, and her name is permanently etched on the Senate wall there. She also did her MD from CMC. She finally graduated with more than 32 gold medals, and a zillion certificates. The former National Scholar also secured her DNB, MRCP and her Certificate in Nephrology before she turned 30. Recently, her photo appeared in the Annual Review of MRCP world-wide (she was the only non-British person to have been interviewed for this edition). She has also co-authored an article that appeared in The Lancet, the Bible for the Medical profession.

So, what I am I trying to relay through this panegyric? If you approach Dhanya with a stomach indigestion, at best she may not know what to do. In all probability, your ailment will remain in its same condition post treatment (I am living proof of this). But if you present her with a condition of meningitis, exacerbated by pneumonia and punctuated with chronic kidney disease stage III, I assure you she will offer world-class treatment. I remember when her grandfather was hospitalized, she was the only one (in spite of being a student those days) to actually discover a fracture that none of the senior doctors of the hospital could ever locate.

There is an IIT-ian IAS 1st rank holder from Kerala named Raju Narayanaswamy who was so good at the esoteric stuff that he would not know how to find his way home from the town bus terminal. Her case is not that complicated, though.

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