OBG Clinical !!

Some candid confessions:

# Whatever knowledge had been forced down the cerebrum, for the theories, had vapourized. Thanks to the complete 29 days gap between the theories and the clinical examination. So, with the 'dehydrated mind', I sat down to read for the clinicals. The instruments, the x-rays, the drugs, the specimens, The long cases and the short cases. All had to be done. 

#  While thinking about the clinical record that I had for OBG…Wuhoo… “It was a record in its own.” 

And the reasons are here for you…. To laugh out on… ;-)

* I had comfortably and deliberately bunked most of the postings. (Thanks to the hospital's hush-a-hush location, and the scoldings that I had to hear each time I landed into the OBG department. Sometimes, because they were irritated seeing soo many students, and sometimes because, we were very few to be taught.)

* What we knew maximum was Ante-natal check up. (That too had come after a 'labor'ous task of standing for long hours in a 4*4 m cubicle, with two teachers, two patients with their tummies hanging, one patient on a couch, and two students.)

* Not presented a single case in OBG all the 5 semesters of postings. (Ohh! To tell you the truth, I did not know about the wards till the last month. So, history taking lies out of question.)

* Tried a number of times to enter the labor room, but was shooed out of it (literally, shooed out!) It was the advantage of being called the 9^th semesters that the resident allowed me to see a few deliveries.

* Tried a lot of pranks, said a number of lies, to some-how manage to see an operative procedure. But, I managed only once to sneak into the OTs of the OBG department (the ever-elusive one, thanks to the huge no. of relatives that hog around the OT, as if there’s a mela going on. Yeah, afterall, babies are born FREE! FREE! FREE!) What I could see, were only the stitches being planted on the Cesarean Section.  

* Never done a P/V. But, hey, I HAD seen a Pap smear being taken. Was very happy that had managed one.

    

Henceforth, what the practical was…and shaped out to be….was something like a TYPICAL PRACTICAL…where what you know would be asked to your friends, and what others know and you don’t, would be asked to you. 

And, also, what no one knows is going to be asked to everyone, and the answer to such a question would remain ‘unknown’ till the viva ends.

‘The OBG’ ends, and we are left with two another practicals.

Yeah, the medicos of Rajasthan are the modern age Draupadis, wearing this sari aptly named ‘exams’ …and whose ‘izzat’ is being blasted, by the RUHS- the Kauravas.

Yaar, yeh exams kab khatam honge ??? 

Phew.

PS: Happy Holi ! :-)