A small day

Waking up at 8 already shortened up my day by an hour that day. I knew i only had a small number of cases in the ward, 1 to be exact. As the day progressed the sun came out of the foggy sky shining in our medicine opd. "I'll be back soon, till then you stay in the OPD" my supervising Doctor said. And after a short interval he was back with a tall, fair athletic built man with blonde hair and golden beard and next to him was a lady matching his height and built. He was wearing a sea weed green cargo with a royal blue T-shirt and she was in casuals. Both of them having typical features of englishmen were in fact really from U.K.
"They are from 'The Discovery channel' to shoot my interview about the smallest man in the World" sir tried to answer my question marked face.

World's Smallest man

Followed them the SMALLEST man in the world in a wheel chair driven by his brothers. This was a man with height of not more than a feet and  a age of 72 years. He couldn't walk around attributing to his extra fragile bones since his childhood.

Discovery Crew

I tried to make conversation with the Discovery people and came to know they are shooting 10 different & unique stories around the world and each will be shown as a 1 hour show in the near future on air. I was assigned to help them around and meet their requirements of background people and different locations for the shoot. Small did i know then that this will turn out to be something outstanding. Once the interview of my supervising doctor was over he left and next shoot was done at another location about how investigations were performed on the smallest person alive.
After all this one of crew member walks up to me and starts talking in a very casual mode "Yeah, almost every thing is over, we have all that we needed. We got his checked, got all the investigations done. Now we are just left with the last part which is we gifting him a hearing aid and we need you to put it on him while we shoot it."

Discovery crew

"WHAT!" - they took me in by a huge surprise, i continued "No i can't do it, i'm not even a audiometrist. I'm nervous" But alas they didn't listen and 5 mins later i was being pictured putting a hearing aid in the smallest man in the worlds ear. He was very happy after that and was listening very clearly. Then with a warm friendly handshake they all left thanking me for all the help and company.
The day was small indeed, a small stay with a small man and a small role made it Large, Xtra Large i'd rather say. I played a part in a show which is soon to be aired on the international television around the world was all i needed to know for a sound sleep that night without worrying about it to be small or big. I don't know if they will keep me or edit me out but i have lived that day that moment - no matter how small it was, the memory of that feeling makes it immortal.

So called inspection

Nearly a week ago we were informed to make ourselves prepared for N.M.C (Nepal Medical Council) inspection & we were looking quite forward to it. Since years unknown such inspections have been taking place now and then but still hasn't been able to turn a single stone of this college.

I think this is so because they don't use the element of surprise. They happily inform the college well in advance granting then enough time to make preparations for their proper welcome. This is the time when our college sparkles up. Every department has quit a number of names in the list of the doctors working there. The actual number may be not even 1/4th but during the inspection days all the faces become visible walking around the OPD and the canteen.
I myself got introduced to few of the new faculty members on the supposed day of inspection. On my way i saw the nursing students nicely dressed, waiting for the inspection team with flower bouquets. Notice had been published earlier itself by our well reputed MS issuing orders for all of us (doctors,  interns and JR's) to look sharp and formally dressed. 

People formally dressed

So be it, i also went in wearing my best attire with a batch on my apron saying 'Dr. Sarthak Chakravarty'. Let's us also enjoy the attention sometimes. My colleges also walked in wearing formals and looked ravishing. Inspection time is kind a like a carnival in the hospital, people running up and down inquiring weather the inspection team has arrived or not, sweepers cleaning every bit of dirt from the floor, ward attendants spraying room freshener all around, all kind of patch work going on which kind a made a few corners totally unrecognizable. Mess swelling up with all kinds of delicious mouth watering recipes which gives almost the same food everyday for rest of the year. Doctors have taken on their aprons after dusting out from the almirahs. And many similar changes were seen around the campus.

People trying to look busy

"They have arrived" came in the news. Everybody trying hard to look busy, engaging themselves in something or the other. I being posted on the top floor of the OPD waited nearly 4 hours for the team to reach here. Yes i was all prepared, i knew how many faculty members were there & what their names were (all mugged up), i knew how many students were posted, what topic is being taught, what all operations are being done, yes i was ready.

The team arrives, goes upto the HOD, shakes hand. Asked the JR a question or two and that's it. It was over, done, finished..... no one asked me anything. All mugging up went in vain, down the drain. I knew i should have worn in the imported perfume but no i had to use the stupid NIKE deo! Well nothing to do now but we all were definitely happy that it was over and no more formals from tomorrow, thank God for that.
I just hope the college doesn't shuts down before i complete my internship  and hopefully not as the heads of management have masters in the art of bribery. Other than that who doesn't likes a bit of carnival mood now and then ;)

Duty begins with a blast

It's now been 2 months since i have started my Medical internship at UCMS teaching college at Bhairahaawa.

Had a super duper starting - My 1st day was emergency duty & on the very 1st day i was assigned to put sutures on a scalp of a guy who had come in about 3 hours ago after having a big fight at home because of inter familial conflicts.
Well if a man got to do his duty he's just gotta do it. I called upon Mukund my very good friend a final year student back then. He also didn't hold any experience  in this particular art of suturing. After a good boost up from the MO incharge and mukund i entered the male ward. The injured was very well prepared to sleep and was already very comfortable over bed. After getting him to position i started shaving his head over the injured region with an incision blade (no razor was available). My hand shaking & mukund cleaning of bouts of sweats over my forehead. Soon the field was clear and there i was holding the "cutting edge, piercing 3.0 curved non-traumatic needle" (yes it's that long a name) in my hand, with an artery forcep and toothed forcep the other. Oh i almost forgot the injecting Local Anesthesia part. It's actually fun, you inject the periferal skin with 'lignocain' and keep doing that while small spurts of lignocain errupt all over the place. Anyway, now i was half a way through my suture by piercing the poor guys scalp a lot of times and don't know how many times saving my finger from that needle. Now comes the tricky part... what i had learned before was how to suture a straight wound but whats this?!!! This wound was in 'Y' shape, WTH! not which side was i supposed to move?
Now kicked in my common sence, or you can say it was a combined thought from me and mukund that let's stich one side first and we'll come back for the other later (only if i had learned sewing back at home, lol)
The trick did work and at last both of us were very happy that some how we managed to stop the bleeding from that poor fellows head & then MO incharge enters the ward. 'Good Job' he said and i was just wow, patting my self in my imagination which seized with the next word from my MO - "what about the other cut?"
"What other cut?" & then we found out that there was a another linear injury next to the one we have stitched & this one had escaped our eye. 
After a long painful back aching repeate of events finally we got a victory to make that guy medically fit.
And then the events continued for the next 15days throughout my emergency posting, from snake bites to poision suicidal cases and much much more.
Over all it was fun and fun still continues coz everyday in medicine field is a new experience, something new to learn everyday and somethings to make your life more meaningful. My adventure as an intern continues.....