The Party President

Dr. Jolting (Fictional Name) was the only assistant professor in the surgical unit C in the Medical College, Kota for some time. As the post of the senior resident was also vacant in the unit, he was the first on-call faculty member all the time.

Once when he was sitting in the Surgical OPD, two patients of road accident came accompanied by a mob of attendants. After primary treatment, they had been referred from a Primary Health Centre (PHC) from the rural area. Dr. Jolting promptly started examining the patients.

One of the attendants of the patient came forward and introduced himself as the Block President of Party XYZ. Blocks are small area compromising of few villages. Although it was one of the national parties of India, the name is not important as this was the individual person’s action and not representative of the party.

From his tone of speech and his body language, it appeared that he was doing a great favor to Dr. Jolting by speaking to him. Although Dr. Jolting was on friendly terms with his party’s officials much higher in rank than him, yet he decided to pamper his ego and not unnecessarily antagonize the party president. With an expression of joy and gratitude Dr. Jolting warmly responded, “I am very pleased to meet you. It is such a great honor.”

The Block President did not think that Dr. Jolting’s response was commensurate with his status. With a meaningful menacing look in his eyes, he told Dr. Jolting, “You must have heard that a group of our party workers had beaten a doctor in the PHC Sultanpur a few days ago. I was the leader of that group. So better take good care of these patients.”

Dr. Jolting looked at the party president and said, “Due to the shortage of staff I have been on continuous call for the last 30 days and have not been able to take even a single day off. I am giving the best possible treatment to your patients. If you are still not satisfied and want to beat me up then do it fast. I will be able to take medical leave and have rest for at least 10-15 days after the beating.”

The block president was stunned by Dr. Jolting’s response and stammered, “No, No. I did not mean anything like that. You please carry on with your treatment.” and faded to the background.

Sometimes verbalizing the opposite person's intentions can change the whole dynamics of the situation.

(Believe it or not but based on a true incident)

— ND
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