অধ্যায়-- 55
Chapter 55
Principles of External-Internal Medicine
There was a particularly interesting shell sparkling on the beach. As June stared at it she could visualize the bearded face of the professor standing on the pulpit addressing his students. His narratives were always so very..."Today I am going to take you all to my retired professor, Dr Joatmon who lives in the outskirts of the city. He's from a time when troubleshooting humans was not as compartmentalized into specialties as it is today. Even now, he tackles a few of our patients when we are stumped."
The car stopped on the road that had crossed a dense jungle. June couldn't believe it was just a two hour drive from their college. She treaded sheepishly on the foliage half expecting to be bitten by something but was partly reassured by the professor's confidant strides.
They crossed a few rivers and the last one left her drenched from head to toe. The current nearly swept one of the students off and another lost one of his shoes. They had to climb down to their last river, pretty technical at places. Thank Con! For those fixed ropes...wires actually, some pilgrims may have left.
Then there were those slippery steps cut out from the rocky ridge and as the professor clambered up them, June sat on them to dry herself. After sometime she found a gentleman with a white flowing beard grinning at her. She'd have taken him to be another version of the professor if she didn't find the professor accompanying him with an expression suggesting a 6year old school boy who's just found his pencil box hidden someplace completely forgotten earlier.
All the students stared awestruck at Prof Joatmon, founder editor of Joatmon's "Principles of External-Internal medicine”.” Hi! I am Joatmon call me Jo for short. Come on up for a cup of tea." It turned out to be a thousand more steps, not that June cared to count. They were sipping tea in a makeshift home under a huge stone slab labeled, 'Jo's Cave'. In front of them was another dark hole. “That's the Mahakaal cave, "Jo said in a matter of fact manner as if June had asked the question in an equal vein. It was discovered by one of those old traveler type missionaries. Its all limestone inside with a lot of stalactites and stalagmites, which the local people here venerate as Shiva...you know, the penile figurehead". June wasn't sure she'd need all this info but professor Joatmon was a strange man... a jack of all trades, master of none was what he said his name meant unabbreviated (if you took it to be an acronym).
Medicine is all about being just that he said; after all it is Con only who can master the human body (and there's no point mastering just a part).
Con pricked up his ears at the last statement. "Well here's one fellow who's finally talking sense.
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