The media is abuzz with Kashmir and upcoming festival of Bakri-Eid. This triggered Dr. Dev’s memory of an incident from Surgery Department of AIIMS, New Delhi, involving a Kashmiri doctor and a slaughterhouse (he-goat) when he was a junior resident there.
Dr. Kool (Fictional Name), who was from Kashmir, was the senior resident in the Surgery unit III in AIIMS. He was quite a charmer with a taste for all good things in life.
Once a patient got admitted in the surgery unit, whose emergency operation was done successfully by Dr. Kool. At the time of discharge from the hospital, the patient’s elder brother noted Dr. Kool’s mobile number and asked him what could he do for him to show his gratitude for saving his brother’s life.
Dr. Kool offhandedly remarked him to bring 'bakra' (he-goat) the next time he comes to visit him. As Indians all know, the meat of Bakra or goat is most frequently eaten meat in India.
One week later, Dr. Kool received a call from the patient’s brother, while he was taking the evening round in the D7 surgical ward. The brother said, ‘As requested by you, I have bought the 'bakra' for you. Where should I bring it?’
Dr. Kool, imaging it is must be 1 or 2 kg of cooked goat meat, asked him to bring it to the D7 surgical ward. The surgical ward was on the 7th floor of the hopsital building. After some time, the patient brother reached the D7 ward towing a large live goat with a rope tied around his neck and proudly announced, ‘Sir, here is the 'bakra' as requested by you.’
On seeing the live goat in front of him in the D7 surgery ward, a normally loquacious Dr. Kool become speechless.
The patient’s brother had taken the literal meaning of Dr. Kool’s word of bringing a 'bakra'. He brought the live goat to Delhi in a bus from his village, then in an auto-rickshaw to AIIMS. On talking to Dr. Kool on his mobile phone from outside the hospital, he bought the goat through the private ward lift, normally reserved for the Staff and only private ward patients. When the guards tried to stop him, he countered that he is taking the goat to the surgery ward on order of Dr. Kool.
Dr. Kool explained to the patient’s brother that he meant goat meat, not a live goat when he asked him to bring ‘bakra’. The brother then took the goat to a slaughter house in Delhi, and then bought the meat to Dr. Kool’s residence. Dr. Kool’s wife cooked the goat meat and gave a big party to all the surgery unit III members at their home.
We should be careful about what we wish for. Someone may take our word literally and try to fulfill them taking unnecessary pain and hardship.
(Based on an allegedly true incident)
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