Dr. Dev (Fictional Name) in his school days had read climbing stairs was a very good exercise. So he started taking and stars and avoiding taking the elevator (lift) whenever possible.
When he came to AIIMS, New Delhi as MBBS student it was a golden place to practice the stair climbing. The Pre-Clinical block was three floors high, the Clinical and Para-Clinical block and the OPD block was five floors high and the ward blocks were eight floors high. Also, the connecting passage between these different block was open on the different floor. For example, to go from the fourth-floor Clinical block to the 4th-floor Urology ward, you have to first go to the fifth floor, cross from there to the ward block and then go down back to the fourth floor.
When Dr. Dev, as an MBBS student used to go to the wards postings or classes along with his batch mates, he used to part way with the group near the lift (elevator), take the stairs and meet them once again at the destination floor.
Dev naturally thought that his classmates will appreciate his fitness attempt by taking the stairs, but he was sadly mistaken.
Once he parted way with his classmates near the lift (elevator) to take the stairs, one of his classmates said with a pitiful look on her face, “Dev, have you consulted any psychiatrist for your fear of traveling in the lift?”
It appears that due to his insistence of always taking the stairs and never the elevator, few of Dev’s batchmate have thought that Dr. Dev was suffering from a psychiatric phobia and was morbidly afraid of taking the lift and therefore he used to take the stairs instead of the elevator.
If over behavior is different from others, even if it is for a good reason, people may form a wrong impression of us, if they do not know the underlying reason.
PS: This stair climbing continued till the early part of 3rd of junior residency in surgery in AIIMS, New Delhi, even though the surgery ward was on the 7th floor and the Operation Theatre was on the 8th floor. By mid 3rd year Dr. Dev got lazy and started using the elevator (lift) and by end of the residency almost became dependent on the elevator.
PS: To get an idea of the stair climbing speed of Dr. Dev at mid residency period read: https://agnipathdoctors.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-surgical-radiological-conference.html
(Based on true incident)
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Doctor Dev was a big fan of burpee as well ;) MV
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