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 naively 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 the
Pediatric anesthesiologist,
Cardiac anesthesiologist,
Obstetric anesthesiologist,
Neurosurgical anesthesiologist, 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 added, 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. Actually, he was 3 years senior to you in age. 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.
( Fondly remembering my friend Dr A Mohanty who finished MBBS with me, then went on to the NIMHANS for a 6 years Neurosurgery. From there he had gone to US and is now a certified Pediatrics Endocrine Cancer Surgeon)
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