Speaking doctors

It was later that I learnt how to sprinkle in videos . Three thousand views! Yaaaaaaaahoooooooooooooo!!!!!!! What seemed like a dream once has become a reality now! I would recommend that as you read the post continue playing the above you tube piano piece. So coming back to the three thousand views. Probably a thousand are mine, but you guys have made the other two thousand ones possible and all of you deserve a big thankyou!!!!! How it began...   It all started when my brother made the blog for me, designed it and named it. I chose the pink background. I started very simple and my initial posts are still my favourite e.g., A fairy tale; Valentines, what, where. The post that I hate most is Eclipsing. Its just useless. My brother asked me to remove it if I donot like it, but I won't as I did spend my precious time on it. The technical bit. Initially I used to add pictures. It was later that I learnt how to sprinkle in videos....

My brother has made these little advertisement papers regarding my blog. I gave one to one of our doctors. Trying to add some excitement, I add, "Do you know that I have a blog, do visit it". "So what do you write about? ", he inquires and then goes on, "Will your writing bring about a change in our pay scale? Will your posts make our president resign?!". I just smile back and tell him to create his own blog if he wants such revolutions.I do not claim for such revolutions and I do not really agree that by achieving the above, anything remarkable is to happen. Its not just one individual on top. Its all of us. I do not know when we will understand that!

 As I proceed for the library, I meet the cute little medical student (I just do not know her name, and after knowing her for more than a few years its rude to ask her to introduce herself). "I love your blog by the way!", she greets me.  All I can say is that she made my day. Violins started playing, I could feel a cool breeze blowing, butterflies flying! (Dont I get carried away!) Oh another day! Coming back to my day, saw twenty three patients, or rather twenty three hearts with issues. And in the end all seemed similar. Similar hearts, similar histories, similar ecgs, and obviously the same old doctor, i.e., me!

This elderly gentleman, chubby, lively, lays on Emergency bed. I, being in cardiology consults am called for evaluation of heart failure. I start my history. I go through the usual boring drill of questions. "So, how many pillows do you need while sleeping?", I inquire. "Three pillows, doctor", comes the reply. 'He must be really short of breath', my mind races. "Three pillows", I repeat, as if trying to convince myself. "Yes doctor three, one under my head, one on my right side and another on the left side to support my aching legs!", the poor chap tries to convince me. 

Another one done with. If anybody wants to loose weight, walk all night, have their diurnal variation screwed up, drink tea all night ....... join cardiology night cover. One doctor, many chest pains! The weather finally takes a turn yesterday. Its more breezy now. A little foggy. For a lot of people it may also seem gloomy. The city experienced moon eclipse and this is how it looked. Nice picture. I like its horizontality. By the way this is what a moon eclipse means. A lunar eclipse occurs when the moon passes behind the earth so that the earth blocks the sun's rays from striking the moon. This can occur only when the Sun , Earth , and Moon are aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, a lunar eclipse can only occur the night of a full moon .

Once upon a time, while in ICU, I had a rough call (nothing unusual, as my friends know I have a cloud). Dr Saeed then commented,  "Enjoy your calls, you won't do them all life!". But while in cardiology night cover, as I do alternate calls, it seems like a lifetime. The whole rotation is crazy. The whole country seems to be going crazy as well. The other day Saima was very upset and wanted me to write about all the injustices. Interestingly, I read in the newspaper that in a country far away from ours someone wrote freely on his blog and is now detained for an year of education. Interesting. I being a blogger feel that its my responsibility that I donot sadden my readers. I've seen people smile while reading my posts and I just love that. This is how the world is. Good and bad. Concentrate on the good. Forget the bad. But is that like digging your head in the sand .... like an ostrich........ But then, could we make a difference..... could we......

Weekend call done with. Great call by all standards. Overnight just three patients. There was this uncle with the red legs. I took all history. In the end I repeated the usual sentence,  "Is there anything you think that I ve forgotten to ask, that you think may be important?". "My name is Haroon!", he replied plainly.

Her daughter on the bed side smiles as well! It has been eight days since the last post. So its long time no see. Nothing really interesting has happened in the last few days. But things donot have to be interesting. I usually make them sound interesting. Thats what my sister says. And you as my ardent fan just have to agree. The heart problems A middle aged patient is in emergency. He has been on a very high post in his hay days and has come in with severe chest pain. His family is really worried. And they should be. But then they remind us time and again about their father's  earlier post and that he should be given extra attention. The poor guy was sweating like anything. We could not give him nitrates as he had changes in inferior ECG leads. So morphine infusion was started. Few minutes later I visited him again. He looked better now. Pain free. "Uncle, how do you feel now?", I asked. "Much better doctor. But they have told me that t...

 It teaches us that donot loose hope, that every cloud has a silver lining. We have started to copy our neighbours. Our film makers eventually came to believe that by becoming sleazy and obscene, people will watch their movies. We should remember that 'kawa chaala hans ke chaal, apni chaal bhi bhool gaya!'. By becoming all that, we look out of place. No one watches that with families. No one. And for watching obscenity there are better options, better than the local ones. Here comes 'Bol'. The clips look amazing, descent. People are looking forward to it. Movie made by an educated lot. I just love this song, 'din pareeshan hai, raat bhari hai, zindagi hay kay phir bhee pyari hay, kya tamasha hay, kab say jari hay, zindagi hay kay phir bhee pyari hay!'. The whole cast looks just amazing. The ladies elegant and pretty. So thats how our ladies are right, elegant and pretty! (don't jealous!)Our lot are capable of such brilliant stuff. It teaches us that don...