Yes, that particular question was posed by a manager of a pretty decent start-up company. I was a little perplexed to start with and then it sank in! I always knew that I had somewhat of a better linguistic skill than my peers of equal education, but even i did not expect a job of this kind even in my wildest of my wildest dreams.
Now talking of unexpected things, who would have thought that a son of doctor parents who studied science till 12th, whose only aim in life was to 'achieve' a medial seat would end up doing his masters in computers and then go on to start his career in in PPC Marketing company and then join a software firm, not as a programmer or a tester but as a SEO expert also looking after their PPC operations. I am sort of webmaster for 12 websites which are mirror sites of my company's main website.
I dont know whether this is good or bad but i feel that anywhere i work, i end up loving the work without having any regrets of not doing the job i was trained for. Maybe I am optimistic...maybe not! Maybe I am resigned to the will of my destiny... I don't know!
After not achieving a medical seat, i shifted my career focus to computers from science which i would say is 180 degree turn. Then after masters in computers, i end up as a SEO cum PPC manager cum webmaster...? What the hell I am I doing with my life guys, can anyone tell me?
Friday, November 17, 2006
Sunday, November 12, 2006
A day in a hospital as a common man
There are many advantages of being born in a well educated family and especially if both your parents are doctors with good enough experience both as public servant and private entrepreneur. All my life I was a never a patient with serious enough ailment to be admitted in a hospital. I wasn't even involved with someone remotely sick in our family to be admitted in a hospital. My granny was a extremely healthy person, who died without too much of a fuss! So it can concluded that I am a zero when it comes to admitted someone in a hospital or taking care of.
When I was needed to admit my mother in a hospital recently, it was a horrible experience even before I could take her to hospital. She developed some sort of dizzy feeling caused by imbalance in the ears. (People with medical background will know that the primary function of ear is not hearing but maintaining the equilibrium of mind with sensory organs. Ears are biological equivalent of a gyroscopes used in flying objects)
When we took her to the emergency centre, it was already in complete chaos. Security guards were harrassed by people eager to meet the patients in the emergency ward. My dad went in to register in the registration, there also it was full with people. It was difficult to seperate the patients from their attendants. My mother was unable to even stand here and there at the registration counter, there were a hundred people each eager to get registered. No wheelchairs, no stretchers, no nurses, no doctors, absouletely no one to help! After a lot of heated arguements, we got to know that since my mom is not too serious, we had to take her to the outpatient wing, which is about 200 meters from where we are. We had to take her on our shoulders there and there, you wouldn't imagine the scene, there were about 500 people crammed into the millennium block. It was as the British call : "organised chaos!"
If a doctor has this kind of experience, then, i can't even imagine what would a illeterate person without any money and contacts would feel there. I had known crowds in hospitals but they were all government run hospitals in villages, where there were crowds only once a week.
Finally, we were able to convince the security that the person in question was a hospital a staff and thus they let us go in. My mom's colleagues came to see her and she was on her feet very soon. I will not forget the harrowing experience which i had to go to, simply cos it was my first experience as a ordinary mortal and not as a 'son-of-a-doctor' experience. I cannot but feel sorry for the innumerable deaths caused by improper diagnosis or situational inadeqacies of hospital staff. Health care, for the Indian govt is all about 'buildings'. They just dont care what kind of people they put in the 'buildings'. All they do is build monumental concrete structures and forget the matter. Hospital should have heart and soul, helpful attendants - people who can calm the relatives of patients.
Government run hospitals are gone to the wolves and the private hospitals are run by the wolves! Take your pick, where would you take your loves ones :)
When I was needed to admit my mother in a hospital recently, it was a horrible experience even before I could take her to hospital. She developed some sort of dizzy feeling caused by imbalance in the ears. (People with medical background will know that the primary function of ear is not hearing but maintaining the equilibrium of mind with sensory organs. Ears are biological equivalent of a gyroscopes used in flying objects)
When we took her to the emergency centre, it was already in complete chaos. Security guards were harrassed by people eager to meet the patients in the emergency ward. My dad went in to register in the registration, there also it was full with people. It was difficult to seperate the patients from their attendants. My mother was unable to even stand here and there at the registration counter, there were a hundred people each eager to get registered. No wheelchairs, no stretchers, no nurses, no doctors, absouletely no one to help! After a lot of heated arguements, we got to know that since my mom is not too serious, we had to take her to the outpatient wing, which is about 200 meters from where we are. We had to take her on our shoulders there and there, you wouldn't imagine the scene, there were about 500 people crammed into the millennium block. It was as the British call : "organised chaos!"
If a doctor has this kind of experience, then, i can't even imagine what would a illeterate person without any money and contacts would feel there. I had known crowds in hospitals but they were all government run hospitals in villages, where there were crowds only once a week.
Finally, we were able to convince the security that the person in question was a hospital a staff and thus they let us go in. My mom's colleagues came to see her and she was on her feet very soon. I will not forget the harrowing experience which i had to go to, simply cos it was my first experience as a ordinary mortal and not as a 'son-of-a-doctor' experience. I cannot but feel sorry for the innumerable deaths caused by improper diagnosis or situational inadeqacies of hospital staff. Health care, for the Indian govt is all about 'buildings'. They just dont care what kind of people they put in the 'buildings'. All they do is build monumental concrete structures and forget the matter. Hospital should have heart and soul, helpful attendants - people who can calm the relatives of patients.
Government run hospitals are gone to the wolves and the private hospitals are run by the wolves! Take your pick, where would you take your loves ones :)
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