Mincing Words - Not !!

Hello everyone! So I am back again with another blog but this time I am writing to you after 72 hours. I have taken 24 more hours to come back and talk just because there have been some problems which I have faced in the duties which we have in Corona Clinic. So, I will straight away get to the point that for the past 72 hours I have been pretty busy as in the first 24 hours I was posted from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on regular duty hours in my department. The next 24 hours saw me doing my first duty in the screening clinic in which I am supposed to sit wearing personal protective equipment and swab all the patients which come as suspected cases. Before, when I was in touch and described that we underwent a lot of training still when I reached the clinic yesterday I found out that there were many discrepancies in the training which the staff posted there had been getting.  When I reached there yesterday I observed that there was no coordination between our department and the d...

Hello everyone! I hope you all are doing fine. It already is the fifth day of 21 days lockdown and the differences between the last five days or maybe the coming days seem to become more blurry as the lockdown proceeds. I feel the major reason for that is is a lack of routine which I had been following since the beginning of my life. I am pretty sure that I was this free only when I was less than 3 years of age. Since then, I have been under a very strict schedule of the school, sports and working hard to get good marks for a better future. I know many of you might have been following a stricter schedule or might not be following any schedule at all but I feel that this lockdown will make us realise no matter how redundant our schedules were for a third party, they still made sense. It was that schedule which made me get up every day and go to work. Nowadays I keep on forgetting days and dates when I get up in the morning. All this seems so unreal as there has never been a day whe...

Hello everyone! Today is the Day 4 of the lockdown and I hope all of you are feeling fit and fine. I am hopeful that most of you are not bored at your home and enjoying a good time with your families. As compared to the other three days, I had a pretty average day. As I decided yesterday I started my day pretty early with a small training session for all the residents who are to be posted in COVID-19 screening clinic. Although, most of the instructions which were given in the training session were the same as before with some extra added instructions according to Government's Advisories which have recently surfaced.  The thing which I would like to discuss today is - Fear. Fear of the unknown, to be more precise. When I woke up in the morning I suddenly realised that I was in the middle of a pandemic and was about to be posted in the middle of the positive cases. I believe a metaphorical battlefield. The gravity of the situation gripped my mind. I will not deny that my...

Hey guys! I hope you all are doing fine and staying away from the world outside. Today was the best day of my lockdown. I say that because I got to go for my regular duties breaking the monotony of the previous week. Although the lockdown started 2 days back, I have been out of regular work for almost ten days now. Most of it is because of the leave which I had taken to study for the final exams. Unlike other departments, we in Microbiology are not relieved one month before exams. We mostly get 15 days, if we are lucky then maybe 20. Due to the pandemic, we have been asked to rejoin the duties even if we had applied for leaves. It is compulsory for one of the senior postgraduates to be present in the department at least once in four days. So, as I reached my lab, that old smell of disinfectant mixed with old and new bacterial cultures from samples filled my nostrils, suddenly waking me up and making the laziness go away. It might sound like a bad experience in regards to the usage ...

Hello Everyone! Today was Day 2 of the lockdown. I hope most of you are still negative for COVID-19 and are enjoying at your homes.  My day started pretty normally and for a change, it started earlier than usual. Got a call from home enquiring about my health and checking if I was taking proper precautions to fight this menace. Immediately after breakfast, I came across a piece of very sad news - In Delhi, people are evicting all the doctors who are working directly or indirectly with patients of COVID-19. I guess the praise for some of them yesterday was premature. Today in the world when doctors are the most respected professionals as they are risking their lives and are working day/night for the welfare of their patients, there are those who think that it would be the right time to screw them as they are at a risk for developing COVID-19 from them. I would like to say that it's not just selfish but also a new level of cruelty our society has reached. Having said that I wou...

Hello to everyone! The inspiration to write this particular piece came from a recent achievement which highlighted the importance of hard-work in our day to day life. When I was in my undergraduate days I was quite fond of buying new clothes (as many of us are). I would change my wardrobe as much as my pocket money and randomly springing family parties allowed me to. So, there was this one particular day when I was standing outside Tommy Hilfiger showroom, dreaming of buying some clothes from there. Dreaming because I used to (still at some level) think that they were way overpriced than their material and durability's worth. Suddenly my eyes fell on this crisp blue shirt with long alternating stripes of blue-grey-white-some other things. I instantly knew that I was going to own this piece of clothing no matter what. To my dismay, I found out that it was available in medium size, which was normal for my age, height and sex. But being a medical student who thinks that there is n...

The idea behind this piece is my nervousness. Most of the times when I write it is about some thought, an idea which had come to me or some observation which I might have made some time ago. Today I thought of writing in the real-time i.e. writing when I am feeling it. By 'it' I mean the feeling which has encouraged me to write is right here sitting in my head and making me think things. Let me start with a question. Has it ever happened to you that someone you like a lot is always around you, sits around you for the most part of the day? Sometimes conversing with you, sometimes ignoring you and sometimes trying to notice you while you are not looking? It has happened to me many times, mostly because I really start liking and trusting people pretty soon. Most of the times I just assume that the other person would be good to me if I am honest, straightforward and clear about my ideas, thoughts and feeling in some cases. Well, to say it, in other words, my life has been ...

Born in a family of intellectuals it was always difficult for me to cope up with the achievements of my parents and siblings. The only discussion which used to take place for the most part of the year was how should we change and improvise our strategy to be at the top of the class, only academically. Physical superiority was never a strong suit at my home. Being fit and involved in any kind of physical work was looked down upon as a distraction and deviation from the real course of life. The Right Path.                                                                                    Meeting new people every year, those who would join the class with each new session was looked upon as measuring up them. Measuring them up in their intellect, physical prowess and finally...

Being born in the 20th century and living the 21st I consider myself as someone who is lucky. Having seen the time when we used to walk everywhere to the time when I fly back and forth to my hometown from my place of work easily (2400 km), I can say I have experienced the wave of change around me in a very close fashion. Waiting for long-distance calls to get connected to having an electronic device in my hand in which I basically live my life I can say that I am Lucky . Now the question which arises in your mind is - " Why the hell am I telling you about I or you being lucky?".                                                                                              My friend, with these examples I just want to touch some points which I might hav...