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O... GOOD DOCTOR ! WHERE ARE YOU?

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O... GOOD DOCTOR ! WHERE ARE YOU?

There are two great clans of humans among us. One is definitely my clan; that is of the lawyers. No one can match the greatness of our clan. You know we are not poor as you think. We have Mahatma Gandhi and Abraham Lincoln with us.

But the other great clan is of the Doctors. They, the doctors, are really great people, all men and women whith white clothes, and mostly with specs of golden frame. If there were no doctors how could have we known the whereabouts of our curable and non-curable diseases?

There are people who regard the doctors as God. But to my mind there is one stupid difference between the God and the doctors. The God has never believed that he is a doctor. (Sorry I don't know exactly that whether God is He or she. But we found doctors in both the sexes.)

Sometimes these godmen, the doctors, too, are caught in a cage. One of my friends had a little difficulty for two days and had gone to a doctor.
He complained that ," Doctor, I find difficulty in passing urin. Can you help me?"
"Do you drink Wine?"
"Yes, doctor."
"Stop it. You will find no difficulty. It would be easy to pass the urin."
"Doctor, in that case it would not be easy for me to pass a pub."
(Important reminder: my friend, this one, does not live in Jaipur.)

It is not the only difficulty with the doctors that their handwritings are almost chaotic. It's very hard to understand what they tell the patients, too. Once a family doctor said to my friend that, "Look Mr. Shah, at this moment I can not say exactly what is your problem. It is due to drinking of wine, perhaps."
"OK, doctor, I would come again when you are not drunk."

We, the lawyers, too, find it hard to work with doctor. The other day one of my collegues was asking a doctor standing in a witness box.
"Doctor Mehta, did you say that the dead person was shot on the chest."
"No I said that the bullet had made inrods in his body through the space between the second and third rib in left side."

Another striking thing about the doctors is the billing pattern. In the case of the billing the doctors are pitiess than any other professionals. Even we, the advocates, get ashamed after seeing their bills. Once I had got some injury in my left leg. I had missed some steps of our staircase. (I would not say what was the reason to miss the steps. You know, it's our internal matter, between me and my wife).

But any way I have to contact a doctor. Though ashamed a little bit, my wife also was with me.
"Doctor, would he be able to wak on his feet?" My wife was really worrying now for just a gentle push she had applied on me out of her anger.

"Yes, he will. Don't worry."

And the doctor proved himself right.
I am now on my feet. I have to sell my car to pay the doctor's bill.

(One statutory Confession: I am not going to take any legal action if any of the Doctor-friends of mine on Sulekha slaps me mildly or heavily for writing this blog - Naval Langa)

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