PART 4: Blooming Friendship
"Good Morning, Doctors..I welcome you all to Sanjeevani..All the information that need to be conveyed with done so by Dr.Kirti..I am in a bit of a hurry..So I cannot stay to personally talk to you all..I just wish all of you the very best of luck for this is the stepping stone of your career..Enjoy your work and thats the key to your sucess..My prayers are always with you, children..God Bless.."..Shashank Sir ended his short talk on a good note..We clapped loudly with a smile hanging on each of our faces..I could not express the kind of feeling I was having..It was completely mixed..I looked forward to everything in the hospital but I had to stay away from my mom who would be completely alone at home if wasn't for our housemaid, Sharada aunty..She came from South India and despite her slow Hindi,she loved our family and was always there whenever mom had a tough time with two daughters..Memories flashed through and I smiled with tears beginning to flood my eye..I wiped the one lone tear and turned around taking in confidence..
Whether I dreamt it or not I dont know..But I thought he was staring at me..He here means to Armaan..The Armaan whom I had my first meeting at Sanjeevani..I found it difficult to think properly when he was around..It was like a magnetic attraction..I had to concentrate on him even when I dint want to..I pushed away my thoughts aside as Dr.Kirti came in, her face dull after the long surgery that she had been to..But the strictness in her voice remained..The kind of the authority she possessed even when she was at the verge of crashing down amazed me immediately and a warm admiration for her skills began growing within..
We followed her to her room maybe because she was tired..She gave each of us a glance as we introduced ourselves that we almost felt that we were going to be hanged the next minute..I could personally feel my admiration going down the drains..If I got such looks every morning I was sure to keep her in my hate list..Once she was done with our introduction she began the entire list of her announcements and warnings and what not..
"OK now..I need you all to pay attention to every word of mine..I am Dr.Kirti Mehra..You will all be reporting to me and one thing let me tell you..I am not an easy going person..I cannot tolerate indiscipline and being on time for anything and everything matters to me the most..I hope you all learn from the two years of learning that you will have here at Sanjeevani..Sanjeevani as you are aware of is a world wide renowned hospital with doctors from different nations coming over for surgeries..I expect each one of you to carry the pride and dignity of Sanjeevani around and I will not stand any action from your side that will affect the image and reputation of this institution.Till here are you clear?"..Her voice echoed the room..We replied a 'Yes' in unison as we impatiently awaited what she was going to tell next..
"Good..Now as you all know you all will be staying in the hostels of Sanjeevani not because we want you to have fun with people of your age and ignore your workbur for the fact that we want you to be present at times of emergency and learn the art of carrying out procedures with a cool head even under the most stressful situations..As a doctor this is a must because we may have to stand extreme tension when we have personal problems..We have two blocks..One for girls and one for boys..I hope that all of you will play your age and not give me a tough time reading complaints from the watchmen and wardens..Yes?"..She once again finished her speech with a question to which we answered another "Yes, maam"..Though I knew very well that this Yes was sarcasm from the looks on every face in the room except Dr.Kirti's..They seemed to glow with the thought of having fun without adults around..I personally was looking forward to this only because I wanted to experience it but otherwise my mom's thoughts troubled me..
Soon enough, Dr.Kirti dismissed us assigning us blocks for our first three months..Sanjeevani being the huge hospital it was had three huge blocks..Dr.Kirti ensured that each of us gets a different block every month and decided on assigning three interns per block..But since there were seven of us she stood on taking the final herself along with the odd seventh intern..That intern's bad luck..And imagine my poor state to control giggling when I saw the bubbly looking intern named Muskaan whose face had turned as if she just heard she was going to be stabbed right through her heart..actually I couldn't blame her..Dr.Kirti would ensure she worked all day and all night long..My duties for the first month were with Rahul and Atul, two friendly looking handsome men, in block A..They turned sideways and smiled at me warmly and I was happy that fun and warmth was ensured for me..Dii, Nikita and Armaan got duties together..and for some strange reason Nikita seemed to be in a dream land..
We left for our works and couldn't get much time to meet each other, I mean the interns..Rahul and Atul came upto me and smiled..
"Hey Ridhima..So chale..for the first day of the roller coaster ride", Rahul told me chuckling at his own little dialogue..
"Yeah that's true..By the way call me Ridz..My names kind of long and plus I am more comfortable with that"
"And I am atul..Atul Joshi..", saying so Atul joined the conversation..
We spent some initial moments introducing ourselves before we left for our ward..We had an entire block to look into and so we had to begin now..General Ward was our first destination..New patients entry and checkups and diagnosis..Old patients medical records to be written..Treatment plans to be updated..There was so much work and I dint realize time flying..
Before I realized it it was lunch time..All seven of us had lunch at the common canteen outside the building where I met the other two..Though Armaan was already familiar to me..We returned back to our duties and one more engrossed ourselves in our works..Time passed by and the sun had set back..We all reported once more at the end of the day giving detailed explanations of all the cases we attended to..Thankfully I dint have any emergency cases today..We all walked to the hostels and split into two when we reached the parting between the girls and boys hostel..
Completely exhausted I decided to take a shower..By the time I came back Muskaan and Nikita were fast asleep and dii was busy in a file..
"Dii..arnt you sleeping?"
"Nahi ridz..I need to finish this one up..Extremely complimented..", she replied without looking up even once..
"Dii..You catch some sleep and wake up in the morning and do na.."
"But Ridz..wahi toh problem hai..I sleep like a pig..You know I cannot ever get up early.."
"Don't worry dii..I will wake up na..I promise I will..I anyways have to go for my jogging na.."
"OH..Thanks Ridz..I love you soooo much..Muah", saying so she hugged me and kissed me lightly on my cheek..
We soon crashed into our beds..I smiled as I silently prayed thanking god for all the beautiful moments and strangely only one moment seemed to invade my mind..Before I could deeply ponder on the reason I was fast asleep..
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