Ultra-Super Specialization

.How young a young doctor can be ?

After completing 5+1 years you add a MBBS degree.

Then the street vendor while balancing one kg potatoes on a scale innocuously asks you,”sir, what is your speciality ?”

So you study 3 more years to add MD (anaesthesiology) to your name for the street vendor’s sake.

As you approach the operation theatre proudly, you scan the tenure board in the scrub station.

But there is not a single anesthesiologist there.

There are pediatric anesthesiologists, cardiac anesthesiologists, obstetric anesthesiologists, neurosurgical anesthesiologists, and many others even you don’t recognize.

So you go back to the prep school for a fellowship at the age of 30 and come back 6 years after with a super specialist quotation afded to the same scrub room.

The nurse matron is a specialist operating room nurse with ultra specialisation in pediatric surgical nursing.

The student surgeon you will work with today is a not so young surgeon. He was a surgery post graduate when you are a undergrad.

He had been studying cancer surgery when you were doing your first specialisation. Since then he had done a fellowship in endocrine cancer surgery.

Now he is ultra specializing in endocrine cancer surgery only in pediatrics.

So today three novice have got together to remove a cancer of endocrine gland of a young child.

Welcome to a modern medical operation theatre.