The CS exam.The exam that right now I consider as a major incident in life along with the big four-birth,settling down in job, marriage and death. For all the non-medical friends,CS = clinical skills. Officially it's known as clinical skills,but it can be appropriately named as communication skills. An exam where 12 patients decide you fate,you are supposed to go and talk to them,interact with them,console, pacify and encourage them- for 15 ridiculously short minutes and get all the information from him regarding his disease. More importantly,ask for the patient's permission for everything.For example-can I examine you? Yup, you heard it right. Doesn't get simpler than that. I agree about one thing though. The concept of making the patient comfortable. My only complaint is that I think we are taken overboard in making the patients comfortable. And in those 15 short minutes. I mean, personally, I believe in making the patients comfortable but the exam is just a pain. All the thank yous and sorries.
Well, anyhow, that was it. And after about 2-3 weeks of preparation I appeared for the exam. I was just one of maybe 3 who didn' have an accent among the examinees. The girl candidates looked spiffy. The hotel wallahs charged me 1.5 dollars for a glass of water. And when I ordered 2 glasses of water for breakfast and did not have change for 5 dollars-I got to use the phrase 'keep the change' for the first time. 2 dollars as tip for 2 glasses of water. Doesn't get more posh than this. (That is what nerves before exam and a new country,new place, new people can do I guess).
Lunch at a mexican eatery and after checking out from the place that I was staying, it turned out to be a great day from there on. Oh even before that, I hope I made a friend during lunch.We'll see about that later,but after checking out and going to a friend's place with my cousin, we had a barbecue with some friends of his...awesome people with great manners. Felt like schooltime friendship again. And then off to bowling.Woohoo. Sport is in my blood.No,in my genes and DNA molecules. And it didn't take much time that I took to the sport. Spinning learnt in a day. Looking forward to my next outing at a bowling alley.
Next day,off to Universal Studios. Ramoji Film City of Hollywood. Obviously on another scale. Just a place to roam around, it didn't get the adrenaline rolling as much..as another night out at some bowling or other sports place would have done. I felt a sense of stupidity/idiocy though after seeing that the whole King Kong habitat in a small piece of land in there. Damn! So,all this while I was being made an idiot in all those movies. Many such movies with huge worldly destruction-all inside that compound. Damn!
Next day,lunch at friends,then return home and then for a telugu movie. An awesome one at that,starring my favorite actor. Well,it was a great 3 days..but then it still sucks having to live off relatives,At a minimum, that feeling of take is there,at leas personally. Prayers to the almighty, to make me self sufficient and to give me that much prosperity so that I help out a lot more of my friends too. Also,fervent prayers to pass the CS exam too. I do not ever want to face that exam again. Hope this major event comes only once in my life.
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