Re: Marathi jokes: To Renuka

[Guest guest]

I wonder are you really serious when you tell the patients all these diagnoses

or are you really trying to have a lighter moment as a stress buster?

 

Renuka '84

Subject: Marathi jokes: To Renuka

To: " MGIMS " <mgims >

Date: Friday, January 22, 2010, 10:16 PM

 

That's a good Marathi joke, Renuka! Unfortunately it loses its meaning in

the translation. " Pote dukhi " in Marathi means abd pain. But the second

meaning is " Jealousy " .

That has happened frequently with me.

Once a lady came to me with chronic heaviness in lower abdomen. I diagnosed

her cause as Fibroids in the uterus and told her in Marathi, " Bai, tumhi

aatlya gaathiche aahat. "

(In Marathi, literally translated, that means that you have inner tumours.

However it is commonly used as a phrase indicating that the person is of a

coniving or conspiring nature.)

Another lady came with a complaint of recurrent abortions. I told her

husband that " Tumchya baykochya potat kahi rahat nahi. "

(In Marathi that literally translates into nothing stays in your wife's

stomach. The phrase is commonly used to describe a person who can't keep a

secret.)

Kishore Shah 1974

RE: Introspection 2010

Dear Sir,

That reminds me of a joke..... One day a guy went to his physician

complaining about abdominal pain (pote dukhi......its a Marathi joke). After

umpteen tests and medications the pain still persisted. The physician gave

up and said.....there could be only one reason for your abdominal

pain.......your neighbor got promoted!

Renuka '84