Medicine Is An Art

So would you even want to know why I am here in Russia? I mean why wouldn't you after reading all that I have written so far? Is it not interesting enough, this life of mine?

It was a fine morning, very sunny in fact. I gazed into this hall filled with cabinets, people and sunlight (of course). I then browsed around for something catchy, but there wasn't any. It was Study in Australia, or Arts and Business Degrees. But then I noticed a small empty spot. I wondered what that was for. Everyone left the hall by 11 morning, but I stayed on. Maybe it was the sunlight, or the boredom. Abruptly this man came out of nowhere and asked me to help him assemble his corner. The empty corner I was talking about. I wanted to say,"I hate to say this sir, but I gotta go...". But then again, I would never have done that to an old man, in his 50's I think. Then I saw the holy grail- study medicine... in Russia. That was like the X-factor...

My friend, RKS just knocked on my door and asked me what he should be studying for tomorrow's bioorganic chemistry test on carboxylic acids. I told him the entire chapter of course, like always.

Being a student of medicine is never easy. I never thought it was easy. I still think it is not easy. But if every man pays his challenges by efforts, and leaves no debts, every man can gain from this business. But not every single man on Earth can study medicine. Because medicine is an art. An art is something subjective to individuality. Art is the meat in one man's meat is another man's poison.

Tomorrow is biophysics day. I will start my day at 9.00 am, starting with an independant research with Professor, M on the light effects and induced ischaemia. And then at 9.40 am I will start my biophysics class, occasionally leaving the class for the continuation of the research work. Then at 12.20 pm I will have my biophysics lecture on electrical fields and its effects on biological membranes. We call it "rat cutting day" because in my research programme with my friend, RKS, all we do is to cut a rat alive, induce ischaemia, shine different lights on its sinoartrial node and monitor its ECG from its leads.