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Humour: Doctors are the best medicine

Hindustan Times | ByRehana Munir
Sep 29, 2018 09:42 PM IST

Healing can often be hilarious

I only dare to write this piece because I’m a medical science bhakt. (Read: rational.) I do not think cancer is brought on by bad thoughts. Nor do I believe yoga is a cure for TB. I was once made to chew a bunch of despicable leaves while lying in a hospital bed with jaundice. That was the beginning and end of my relationship with alternative healing. (Though I’m willing to try blues or jazz healing.)

Don’t we all know a doctor who’ll pierce your bottom with a steroid shot even when you are just stopping by to say hello…?(Imaging: Sunil Kumar Mallik)
Don’t we all know a doctor who’ll pierce your bottom with a steroid shot even when you are just stopping by to say hello…?(Imaging: Sunil Kumar Mallik)
These are the nuclear heavyweights whose short-term treatments you can’t avoid because in the long run we’re all dead. There’s the doctor who is filled with righteous indignation when you ask questions.
Doctors come with all the factory defects of ordinary mortals. What makes me return time and time again is the understanding that all doctors are not, in fact, out to get us in the guise of healing
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