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தூங்காமல் தூங்கி: ஒரு மயக்க இயல் மருத்துவரின் நினைவோடை
மருத்துவர் மாணிக்கவாசகம், மதுரை மருத்துவக் கல்லூரியில் மயக்க இயல் துறையில் (Anaesthesiology) முது கலை பட்டம் பெற்றவர். முப்பது வருடங்களுக்கும் மேலாக மருத்துவக் கல்லூரி மருத்துவமனையில் பணியாற்றி, ஓய்வு பெற்று, தற்போது மயக்க இயல் துறை ஆலோசகராக பல்வேறு மருத்துவமனைகளில் செயலாற்றி வருகிறார். அறுவை அரங்கம் ஒரு தனி உலகம். வலியும் பயமும் எழுதி ஒட்டிய முகங்களுடன் வரும் நோயாளிகளை, பல்வேறு மயக்கமருந்துகள் மூலம் தூக்கத்தில் ஆழ்த்தி, அறுவை சிகிச்சை முடிந்தவுடன் மறுபடியும் தெளிந்த நிலைக்கு கொண்டு வருவது ஒரு தனிக்கலை. முப்பத்தைந்து வருட மயக்க மருத்துவ அனுபவங்கள் நினைவுச் சருகுகளாக அடுக்கு அடுக்காக குவிந்திருக்க, சருகுகளைக் கிளறிக் கிளறி எழுந்த எண்ணங்களின் எழுத்து வடிவமிது.
128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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January 16, 2020
“தூங்காமல் தூங்கி” roughly translates to “Sleep without sleeping”.
It’s the name of the book that made me curious and made me read it. And I’m happy I read it.
Maanikkavaasagam, an anaesthesiologist has penned down his 40 years of life in making people sleep without sleeping.
Excerpt from the book :
“There was a lady gynaecologist working with him in the same hospital. Though compassionate, she was a very strict doctor. Her quality of being precautious would help a lot in government hospitals of those days when facilities where not so good. But sometimes she went out of control in being precautious.
In her 24 hour duty, she would walk into the hospital at 7 AM and check the patients due for delivery that day. She would warn the duty anaesthesiologist that there might be 7-8 surgeries that day. She would keep checking on the doctors and never let them rest for a while. But her duty would end with no deliveries on that day.
On one such day she makes a phone call from her room. An anaesthesiologist attends it from the doctors’ room. After that he gathers the attention of other doctors and stars mimicking the lady doctor. ‘Our gynaecologist had called. A marriage just got over. All the rituals are done. The bride and groom have walked into the first night room. A surgery is expected in 10 months. Be prepared for it’
The entire room fills with laughter!”
Hospitals would mostly be filled with smiles, those smiles just meant to bury the sadness. He says anaesthesiology is the most intense profession. A study says, among the doctors who take their lives because of enormous work pressure, anaesthesiologists top the list.
The various experiences he has shared, gives us an insight of various people from different classes in the society.
This book made me know about anaesthesiology a little and about the society a lot!
PS : You know that the book is written by him about his own experiences. But he has used Third Person Narrative style.
This is the first book I’m reading in that style. It confused me in the beginning and then later made it more interesting!
It’s the name of the book that made me curious and made me read it. And I’m happy I read it.
Maanikkavaasagam, an anaesthesiologist has penned down his 40 years of life in making people sleep without sleeping.
Excerpt from the book :
“There was a lady gynaecologist working with him in the same hospital. Though compassionate, she was a very strict doctor. Her quality of being precautious would help a lot in government hospitals of those days when facilities where not so good. But sometimes she went out of control in being precautious.
In her 24 hour duty, she would walk into the hospital at 7 AM and check the patients due for delivery that day. She would warn the duty anaesthesiologist that there might be 7-8 surgeries that day. She would keep checking on the doctors and never let them rest for a while. But her duty would end with no deliveries on that day.
On one such day she makes a phone call from her room. An anaesthesiologist attends it from the doctors’ room. After that he gathers the attention of other doctors and stars mimicking the lady doctor. ‘Our gynaecologist had called. A marriage just got over. All the rituals are done. The bride and groom have walked into the first night room. A surgery is expected in 10 months. Be prepared for it’
The entire room fills with laughter!”
Hospitals would mostly be filled with smiles, those smiles just meant to bury the sadness. He says anaesthesiology is the most intense profession. A study says, among the doctors who take their lives because of enormous work pressure, anaesthesiologists top the list.
The various experiences he has shared, gives us an insight of various people from different classes in the society.
This book made me know about anaesthesiology a little and about the society a lot!
PS : You know that the book is written by him about his own experiences. But he has used Third Person Narrative style.
This is the first book I’m reading in that style. It confused me in the beginning and then later made it more interesting!
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