The AIIMS Topper Secret

Dr. Dev (fictional name) when he was a MBBS student at AIIMS, New Delhi, used to wonder how the toppers in his batch get 70 to 80% and sometimes even more marks in exam, while he and many other students struggle to get even 50 to 60% marks in the same exam.

Once during a clinical posting the students were waiting for the teacher to come and start the class. One of the topper of his batch said melancholically to another topper of their batch, ‘This time I will be getting poor marks. I am running late in my revision schedule and will finish revising the course only seven times this time.’

On hearing this Dr. Dev’s (who was just a student then) ears pricked up. He could not stop himself from asking the topper, ‘You will complete revising your course seven times before this exam! How many times that you normally revise before the exam?’

The topper replied, ‘Normally I revise the course material at least nine times before exam.’

Dr. Dev was stunned. The toppers of his class after through reading, were revising the books not once, not twice or even thrice but a good nine times before the exam. No wonder they were getting such good marks. He and many other students like him were reading just two to four times the course material before the exam. No wonder they were getting such poor marks.

Shortcuts, tips and tricks are for the lazy and time waster students. For the serious students, reading and re-reading nine to ten times is the secret of their high score.

On a lighter note, Dr. Dev calculated that the topper’s one reading plus nine revisions gets him 80 to 90% marks, which comes to (80 to 90) ÷ 10 = 8 to 9 marks per reading. Whereas, he and students like him who read 3 to 4 times, gets around 56% marks, which comes to 56 ÷ 4 = 14 marks, so who is more efficient?

— ND

(Based on allegedly true incident.)

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The Retired Doctor

 

After the last blog post on Dhirubhai Ambani, https://agnipathdoctors.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-dhirubhai-ambanis-accountant.html

many of my friends complained that I was being unfair in expecting others to work like Dhirubhai. There is some truth in their words that everyone cannot work like Dhirubhai Ambani and achieve his greatness. But each of us in our own way can put in some extra effort if want ourselves and our country to rise in the world. Let me share with you the true story of one of my senior colleagues.

When Dr. Dev (fictional name)  shifted from New Delhi and joined a small hospital in the town, the surgeons working there had their outpatient clinic in the morning and operate on the patients in the afternoon. The anesthetist, Dr. Jay (fictional name) used to come at 1 - 1.30 PM to the hospital and stay till 5 to 6.00 PM depending on the number of cases. Since Dr. Dev was new to the town, he did not know much about Dr. Jay, the anesthetist.

After some time, Dr. Dev learned that Dr. Jay was initially in a government job working in the district hospital. From there he had taken voluntary retirement and started working as an anesthetist in the private sector.

Dr. Dev was impressed that Dr. Jay was getting a decent monthly pension and full medical treatment and reimbursement coverage, but instead of sitting in his home watching television and reading newspaper and magazines (smartphones with social media was not present then), he was working and supplementing his monthly fixed pension.

Once Dr. Dev wanted to operate on a case early in the morning. He asked the anesthetist, Dr. Jay, if he can come early the next day to give anesthesia to the patient. Dr. Jay looked at him with amazement. ‘Dr. Dev,’ he said, ‘it appears you don’t know that I go daily to the Famous Eye Hospital. I work there from 7.00 AM in the morning to 1.00 PM. You will have to call another anesthetist if you want to operate in the morning time.’

Dr. Dev was amazed. Here is a person who has retired from his job, getting a decent monthly pension, yet he is reporting daily to work at 7.00 AM in the morning and after a hurried lunch again working in the afternoon. How many of you will work from 7.00 AM in the morning to 5.00 PM in the evening when you are having an assured monthly income?

Story Finished? Not so.

Once an emergency case came to the hospital that had to be operated on at around 6.00 PM. The operation was expected to last two to three hours. Dr. Dev requested Dr. Jay to stay and give anesthesia to the patient. 

Dr. Jay agreed and called someone on the phone, ‘Inform madam that I will be late due to an emergency case and start the clinic without me.’ Dr. Dev, who overheard the conservation was curious, what was this about. He bluntly asked Dr. Jay which clinic he was talking about.

Dr. Jay replied, ‘Dr. Dev, I was talking with my nursing assistant. I and my wife run a small clinic in the evening in the Old City area. But don’t worry, my wife, who is also a doctor will handle the patients and I will join her after the case is over.’

Sometime later Dr. Dev met an acquaintance who was living in the area where Dr. Jay and his wife were running their clinic. He asked about Dr. Jay and his clinic. The acquaintance was impressed Dr. Dev knew Dr. Jay. He informed Dr. Dev that Dr. Jay and his wife were very popular among the patients in their area. His wife was in fact had more clientele and was the leading practitioner in the area. Due to the huge number of patients, their clinic sometimes runs as late as 10 PM at night.

Dr. Dev was awestruck. Dr. Jay was working from 7.00 AM in the morning till 10 PM in the night, after retirement, at an advanced age, when he was having an assured monthly pension and his wife was having a very successful clinical practice.

So next time before crying and complaining about your earnings, rising inflation and cost of living, the economy, and GDP ask yourself, are you honestly working as hard as Dr. Jay, ‘the retired doctor’.

— ND

(Based on allegedly true incident.)

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The Dhirubhai Ambani’s Accountant

Dhirajlal Hirachand Ambani or more popularly known as Dhirubhai Ambani was an Indian business magnate who founded the Reliance Industry. His journey from the small village in which he was born and did his initial schooling to the corporate world of Mumbai is a source of fascination to all those who want to create a unique place in this world. Unfortunately, there is not enough authentic detail about the small things that made him such a great man. 

Once I was talking with one of my senior colleagues. I don’t remember the exact context of how the conversation turned to this but he informed me that his maternal uncle (मामा जी) was one of the Munim or traditional Indian accountants of Dhirubhai Ambani. 

His uncle described how after completing his work at the refinery/factory, no matter how late it was, Dhirubhai Ambani always used to come to the office where the Munims or Accountants used to work. The munims/accountants used to sit in a long row, and one by one, Dhirubhai Ambani will go to each accountant and check thoroughly the daily accounts. He will not leave until every account book has been checked and verified. Sometimes, this task lasted as late as 3.00 AM in the morning. Surprisingly, no matter what time he had left at night, he was always back at his factory/refinery by 7.00 AM the next morning.

If you analyze these few simple sentences you will unearth the personal characteristics which no doubt contributed to Dhirubhai Ambani’s success and are worth emulating by anyone who wants to succeed in business and life.

No matter how late or tired he was from his day work, Dhirubhai always used to come to check the accounts. This shows his regularity and dedication to work and his physical capacity to put in long hours of work. 

He used to verify and check the accounts himself. This shows his mental stamina, a head for numbers and figures. You cannot hope to survive in a business world if you cannot understand and make sense of your business accounts, your cash flow, and expenses. You have to be an expert in number-crunching as they say.

There is no doubt that all his munims/accountants were men of high moral and ethical integrity but still, he checked the vast number of accounts himself instead of relying blindly on them. 

I had an acquaintance once who was in the financing and loan business. With an eye to expand his business, he opened a branch office in the opposite part of the city. He made his second in command as the chief of the branch office. Initially, he used to regularly visit the branch office and check the accounts, but slowly his supervisory visits become less frequent and stopped altogether.

After some months when he checked the accounts he was shocked to find that the branch office was running in loss. Using the opportunity provided by his absence and non-checking of the accounts book, his second in command had slowly diverted the profitable clients to a small firm he had started on the side, leaving only loss-making accounts in the branch office. But it was too late. The loss from the unsupervised branch office was so much that he had to sell his personal property to cover the losses and ended up working for others to make his ends meet. A riches to rags story.

Another thing, no matter how late it was, Dhirubhai never postponed his work to the next day. Finish your work the same day, even if the day has turned into the next day. If all of us just follow his one simple rule that I will not stop until I have finished the day’s work, the earth will be a much better place.

No matter how late he was in going back home, Dhirubhai was always back to work in the early morning. This shows his regularity and dedication to work. Another thing is his 7.00 AM early morning timing. There is enough research and studies to show that a large majority of the modern CEOs, business heads, have an early morning rising habit and start working at the time when the less successful people are getting up and having their morning tea/coffee. If you are really passionate about your work, you are more likely to get up and start working early. You don’t require your boss or HR department to force you to come early on time. 

I remember my days as a senior resident in AIIMS, New Delhi. The normal working timing of AIIMS was from 8.30 AM. On operation days the senior resident was required to take the ward round at around 7.00 AM so that the junior residents can finish their ward work and reach the operation theater before 8.30 AM. While going to the ward from the academic block 5th floor for the early ward round, I noticed that some of the surgery department faculty members were in their offices even before me and were already working or studying. These were the same faculty members who had created a name for themselves and AIIMS. Early morning working is the hallmark of achievers in both the business and the academic world.

I hope you will find these small things from Dhirubhai Ambani’s life inspiring and help you in your path of success.

— ND

(Based on allegedly true incident.)

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