Sometimes, one doesnt realize what one carries forward. human beings imbibe feelings, emotions and habits from around themselves.Knowingly or unknowingly.

years have passed by,staying in one place. studying and now working here.( internship..i am not glorifying it. :P )we crib and we cry about this fact. the stagnancy of our situation and the dull place our college is. 

first year had gone in a haste. running around for lectures,cadaver workshops and biochemistry experiments.nothing of which i remember. there are things which seep into our behavior. like when i am sitting in OPD and a patient walks in;and something that our anatomy professors told us,pops up in my mind: notice the patient's gait. that is how you start examining your patient before even touching him.

or when we leave the hospital building,take off your aprons. it does not reflect well on a doctor's personality when he walks on the road with aprons on.something,again anatomy professors taught us..

Bhuiyan ma am 's stress on discipline. Shyam kishore sir 's sheer awesomeness. Rajgopal ma am's inspiring interest in embryology. Even though we may not know much anatomy now or we spent first year trying to be (ir)responsible adults,first time out of our homes..we carry forward the importance of anatomy. There have been so many people who have taught us. So many clinics we have attended or tried to attend!each giving us tit bit of a fact to learn,remember and keep with us while treating patients later on in life.yet,i mentioned only anatomy because that was the beginning of our journey. 

When we entered college ,we were very proud of getting into 'the' KEM! But then, that wore off. And news that the students in jj get to do a lot of stuff besides studies...bands , dance; and "nothing". came in. imagine , we used to say to each other..doing nothing!! no lectures and  no compulsory attendance.seemed like paradise.
i was never the too enthusiastic kinds.I had never done a esr or ems till internshipstarted,unlike some juniors i meet in the hospital.I may have studied well but often missed out on good books.I never was top of class or even close to it.but, nevertheless ,i feel i have learned things.nothing tangible , nothing which will make you think that this article is productive !if i have to necessarily put it in words,then there is a certain demeanor, an outlook , an attitude. and of course,being from kem, knowledge of the rarest of cases!
In the end,when our aim is eventually , not marks or distinctions ,but being a good doctor.i feel that some how KEM has managed that for us.