This was in the late 70s when I had just joined Telco (Now known as Tata Motors) Hospital at Jamshedpur in what is presently Jharkhand just after my post graduation in Surgery from Institute of Medical Sciences ,Banaras Hindu University,Varanasi.Though there was a residency scheme in which we as residents had to work our way through side by side with preparing our theses in our respective topics and studying theory for our final Master of Surgery Degree,working in the practical field in especially in an Industrial Hospital was completely a separate cup of tea altogether.
My boss then was a FRCS surgeon Dr.AK.Dhar and he expected us junior surgeons to watch him when he was in the O.T.Well, this time he was doing a Sigmoidoscopy - a procedure where the the optical rod like tube is inserted through our bottom end to see the lower portion of our Gastro-intestinal tract like anus,rectum and sigmoid colon especially.
Though this procedure is done under local anaesthesia and does not cause pain,the procedure is rather uncomfortable and makes the patient tense.So Dr.Dhar in order to relax the patient thought he would try to relax the patient by diverting his mind by asking some other question.He said"Well,Mr.Singh,are you a chain smoker?" At this the patient replied at what left us bemused"Doctor Saheb,can you see the smoke coming out?"
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