Saturday 30 June 2018

DOCTOR'S DAY

DOCTOR'S DAY..

"This is bleeding heavily.. Bring the dressing tray.. Fast!",  Dr. Ravi shouts while applying pressure over the blood oozing from the deep wound on the patient's forearm..
The nurse picks up pace and brings the sutures and dressing tray.
"Tring tring.."
Dr. Ravi's phone rings. It's in his pocket and since he has worn sterile gloves, he asks the nurse to pick it from his pocket.
"Should I pick it up?", the nurse asks.
"Who the ghost wants to talk to me at 3 AM?", Dr. Ravi shouts while still trying to control the bleeding.
The nurse shows him the phone.
It reads Rakesh calling.
"Ahh. Let it be. He is my college friend. That stupid Suarez fan. Just wants to pull my leg over Portugal's defeat. Ahh Ronaldo. Why did you have to lose? Anyway, just forget it. Let's get done with this first, sister.", Dr. Ravi asks the nurse gathering his thoughts over the task at hand.
As he bends nearer, he smells of alcohol from the mouth of his patient.
"Fucker!", he curses silently.
Just then a policeman comes running.
"Is he stable?", He asks.
"He is bleeding heavily and not keeping his blood pressure well. I suspect he has internal bleeding.. We are waiting for the intern to bring the USG machine. Till then I am managing the external wounds.", Dr Ravi replies.
"Its a medico legal case. He was driving his Mercedes on the racecourse road under influence of alcohol and crashed into a bike coming from the other side of the road. The person driving the bike died on spot.", The police informs.
"Ahh. That's too bad but nothing new. We see such cases daily.!", Dr. Ravi replies.
Just then an intern brings in the portable USG machine and the radiology resident performs FAST(Focused Abdominal Sonography in Trauma).
He quickly does the scan and informs Dr. Ravi that there is an active bleeding in the abdomen and that an emergency OT needs to be done to save the life of the patient.
Dr. Ravi asks his juniors to get the OT ready  urgently. He switches off his phone and goes to the change room to get himself scrubbed.
In the OT, Dr. Ravi who has not slept for last 30 hours, is all charged up to save the patient. There are only few things other than watching his favorite footballer Ronaldo play which make him excited. Emergency OT is one such thing.
It's 6 am and finally Dr. Ravi comes out of the OT, tired but relieved that he has managed to save the patient.
He switches on his mobile.
There are 11 missed calls from Rakesh.
"Fucker. I know Ronaldo lost.!", Dr. Ravi curses under his breath.
He orders tea and sits down to call Rakesh back.
"Yes, fucker I know Ronaldo lost.", Dr. Ravi shouts on the phone.
"That's not what I called you for. Something terrible happened last night. Rahul and I were out to have tea at 2 AM to celebrate Uruguay's win on our bike and...", Rakesh breaks down and starts crying..
"And what? Tell me fast", panick all palpable in Dr. Ravi's voice now.
"A Mercedes crashed into our bike and.... Rahul...", He mumbles and again starts crying.
"Fuck. Fuck. No.. Where did this happen? On racecourse road?", Dr. Ravi asks.
"Yea. How do you know?", Rakesh asks with a sense of astonishment.
"Where are you.? And how are you?"
"No. I was lucky. I am okay. We are at Rahul's house. The funeral is at 10. Are you coming?", Rakesh asks.
"Yea. I am rushing..", Dr. Ravi hangs up the phone.
Just then the wardboy arrives with the cup of tea.
"Here's your tea, sir.
Happy Doctor's day, sir".
Dr. Ravi looks up with tears rolling down his face.

~© Dr. Devashish Palkar

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