Dr. Chandan Sharma (fictional name) was a senior faculty
anesthetist working in Government Medical College, Kota. He was very punctual
and used to reach the hospital at least by 7.50 am for the hospital working
hours starting from 8.00 am.
The faculty attendance register used to be kept in the
medical superintendent office at ground floor where the faculty members of all
departments where required to sign as proof of their attendance. Needless to
say, Dr. Chandan Sharma used to sign in the register well before 8.10 am, the
extra 10 minutes allowed as grace period by the government.
The Head of the department (HOD) of Anesthesia, who
was also the Principal of the college, noticed that some junior residents
working in the department are coming late to hospital. The junior residents
used to sign in a separate attendance register kept on the first floor at the Anesthesia
department office. Being the most punctual person in the department the HOD
naturally assigned Dr. Chandan Sharma to do a surprise check of the time the residents
were coming to the hospital.
Dr. Chandan Sharma decided to do the surprise check on
the next coming Monday. Monday came and as is the law of cosmic misfortune, he
got delayed that day by unavoidable circumstances and reached the hospital just
before 8.00 am.
Seeing, the clock striking 8 o’clock, Dr. Chandan
Sharma sprinted to the first floor Anesthesia department office and took the
Junior Resident doctor’s attendance register under his charge. He noted the
time the Junior Residents came to sign in the register. By 8.30 am most of the
residents have arrived and signed in the attendance register.
Suddenly it dawned on Dr. Chandan Sharma that in a
rush to reach the anesthesia department office, he himself had forgotten to
sign in faculty attendance register kept below in the medical superintendent’s
office. He rushed to the superintendent’s office to sign in the faculty
register.
On arriving, he found that the attendance register was
missing from its designated place. On inquiring he found that, by the law of
cosmic coincidences, the same day was chosen by District Administration to
check the time that the doctors were coming to the hospital. After waiting till
8.10 am, the assistant district magistrate had taken the faculty and other
doctor’s attendance register in his custody and marked as latecomers those have
not signed in the register by 8.10 am.
So, while Dr. Chandan Sharma was marking the junior
residents as latecomers in the departmental register, he himself was marked as
latecomer in the faculty attendance register.
But, since he was indeed in hospital by 8.00 am and
was on special duty assigned by the Principal of the medical college, the
matter was amicably solved in his favour.
While supervising others let us not forget that we may
ourselves be being monitored by others. First cover your base before raising
any fingers towards other to avoid unnecessary discomfort or trouble to
yourself. This is especially true in government setup or an organization with
strong bureaucratic or hierarchical setup.
(Based on true incident)
— ND
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