Went to the clinic after a gap of almost a month, the main reason being that my current chamber has been assimilated by the municipal corporation in road widening, yeah it was legal and everything BUT the law states that the law can take away anything from you… Also there was too much to be done here at SANIsoft.
Why do I need to go to the clinic? Altruistic reasons be damned, and the monetary gains are a joke! The fact is that my patients are my touch with reality, the real denizens of the society we live in… Most of them are from lower or lower middle socio-economic class, vegetable vendors, rickshaw pullers, carpenters you name it and they are there. I need them as much as they need me, I don’t have to put up any pretenses as I talk to the ladies happily narrating what she said to her MIL, and not being surprised at the MIL turning up half an hour later with the other side of the story. Mind you they don’t want my advise and I rarely give any. It is just that I am someone who they can trust, no mean feat in an orthodox Muslim set-up.
Then there is also the special class of patients of mine, the ones whom I treated as kids and they are now mothers – been practicing since past 13 years now – and the ones who were neonates and are now teenagers. They turn to me so that I can give their parents the perspective from the younger POV…
With my patients I dont have to be bothered with things like having to put up with a relative who was showing off his *latest Casio Digital Diary*
LOL – You can well imagine the reaction when after 15 min I calmly took out my M505 and went back to reading the Perry Mason ….
Bottom-line – my patients don’t make me sick 🙂