To Ameet

[Guest guest]

Ha! Ha! Shyam!

Even with my evil bent of mind, I did not spot that 'suggestive' title of

Ameet's mail. Thanks for pointing it out!

Kishore Shah 1974

Re: Bond with the Breast.. to Malini Madam

[Guest guest]

Good one...Ameet.

Brought back good old memories....

Its been a long long time,since...we had such patients ,walk into Eye

clinic...but usually,when in ER,we have our group of young enthusiastic..Arab

docs..who in 5 mins flat ....come to a given conclusion..what the patient is

suffering and swiftly refer the patient to our clinics...the next day with some

Unique diagnosis...

EYE PAIN-CAUSE..PSYCHIC IRRITATION..(I haven't yet understood this one..and

never dared to ask the docs..what it means..either).

Bye.

Shyam(84)..

Re: which talegaon? and stay at anji/bhidi

While working in GOPD.. and also all the RMC's, we had many funny

experiences

one of the things was " vocabulary " ...... my dad is from Nagpur and

apparently people from Vidarbaha recognize that my name last name " Chimote "

is a local name.... In Mumbai, my name was unheard of.... when I usd to tell

people, " my last name is Chimote " they used to ask me... " are you

Maharashtrian? "

The only other " Chimotes " I had heard of before coming to Wardha were my

immediate relatives..... I was in for a shock when in Wardha, people used to

display familiarity with my last name.... and also ask me " mag.. te Amravati

che Chimote tumche kon? " We were the only Chimotes in Bombay phone

directory, while there were 50-60 in the Nagpur Directory

anyways, I digress... so, even though I am from Vidarbah, I was totally

unfamiliar with the Vidarbha vocabulary.... and I used to have a hard time

with the " babajis " and " ajibais "

Once, I remember, we had a packed RMC visit to pounar.. and patients just

kept on pouring in the OPD and we were short handed..... and 90% of the

patients were with general non-specific complaints...

Now, there was this Ajibai who came to me......and I still didnt follow what

she meant.........here's what happened I am trying to type the dialoges

verbatim in Marathi... I am incapable of translating these dialogues into

any other language

Ameet: ya ajibai... basa....

(Ajibai takes her own time.... then moans and groans for a million times...

looks around.... again like in an Iodex advertisement.. goes " oooh, aaaaaah "

and then for more dramatic effect, says 'deva deva... mele mele " )

Ameet : Kaay zaale ajibai... kay traas aahe?

Ajibai: Doctor....... lai traas aahe

Ameet : Kaay hot aahe? Saanga.....

Ajibai : Tongle (kneees) " bho-bho " karte (no clue what that means)

Doke (head) " thun-thun " karte (maybe it hurts)

Dole (eyes) " chee chee " bombalte ( bombalte = screams.... but

now I am puzzled... what would eyes sceam? )

Ameet : Staring at ajibai with mouth wide open.... trying to decided what

just happened

Suddenly ajibai switches into a " demanding mode "

Ajibai : Doctor.. mala ek injection dya, lal goli dya, pevli goli dya and

shishitle (bottle) aushad dya

Ameet (trying to reason) : batlitle aushad khoklyache aahe (cough

medicine)..... tumhala khokla hoto ka?

Ajibai : naahi.. pan aushadani bare watte

Now Ameet is trying to check... if Ajibai goes to Sewagram Engineering

college.. I had heard of stories of Engineering college students addicted to

cough syrup and wonders if Ajibai is a similar case.....

Ameet : OK ajibai... tumhala aushad deo.... tumche gudhge dukhtaat ka ( do

your knees hurt?)

Ajibai : naahi.... dukhat naahi (dont hurt)

Ameet: mag? (then?)

Ajibai : te " bho-bho " karte

now I am confused.... I try to adress her other complaints

Ameet : dole dukhtaat ka?

Ajibai : Naahi .... " chee- chee " bombalte

Ameet (all set to rip my hair off) : mag tumhaaal kaay hote ajibai.... neet

saanga?

In the meantime.. there is a long line of patients formed in the OPD... and

everyone is pleading.. doctor... amhala bagha..

Ajibai : Saangitle ki doctor

Ameet: Parat sanga (tell me again)

Ajibai : Tongle " bho-bho " karte

Doke " thun-thun " karte

Dole " chee chee " bombalte

Ameet (now at my wit's end) : Mhanje dukhte kaa? suj aahe ka?

(Pain?swelling?)

Ajibai : Sangitle ki...... Tongle " bho-bho " karte

Doke " thun-thun " karte

Dole " chee chee " bombalte

Ameet decides at this point, this is the time to consult a " higher power " ...

so, I take the patient to the consultant lecturer from Community Medicine

Department... who in turn consulted Sathe Madam, who was the social worker

in the department, and she used to help us a lot with patients ... and they

treated the ajibai.... but to this date..... I dont know what those

complaints mean.......

Ameet 1993