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The next day ,Avani and her friends came to their Medicine postings without any preparations as it was seminar by Medicine PG Dr.Venkateshwara R C. As they headed towards seminar hall of unit 5,they were greeted by Dr.Kawatra who smiled at them slyly as he announced 'Guys the seminar has been  cancelled and you are supposed to present a COPD case instead.Bed no 67.'Pooja,Mirza,Ananya and Avani looked at each other as to who is going to present a case for which they haven't studied in detail the previous night.Mirza ventured to ask as to why the seminar has been cancelled. It was told that Dr.Venkateshwara had created a seminar with 80 slides which hadn't gone well with the unit head who wanted a short brief seminar with 30 slides.
Everyone headed to bed no 67 cursing Dr.VRC in their minds.'Now who is going to present an unprepared case to Professor Mahesh Murthy with whom they had difficulty in presenting the cases for which they had prepared the previous night.Everyone looked at Avani pleading her .Avani understood.'Ok guys stop looking at me.I am ready to be the bakra.'said Avani. 'Thank you Avani ' said Mirza.'Thank god we have you in our team' blurted Ananya. 'Ok people, stop making me a bigger bakra.let us start taking the case before Prof Murthy blasts us'said Avani.
Then , they started taking their COPD case.They examined and started writing. Then as Avani realised that she had forgotten to take Smoking history, Prof Murthy walked in with PG student Dr.Venkateshwara.
'Since we have constraints for the day, we shall finish discussion of history with ten minutes and go ahead with discussion on examination with next fifteen minutes. Avani began presenting praying that the smoking history would not be asked. As she finished family history presentation, Dr.Venkateshwara standing behind her told Dr.Murthy 'Sir we have just ten minutes more left.U wanted me to remind you to start discussion on examination ''Thank you Venkateshwara, let us go ahead with examination. 'said Dr.Murthy. Avani and her friends couldn't believe that people could be so time conscious. They actually saw both their Professor and The PG student as weird people.However it was a welcome relief for Avani who had not taken the smoking history. Presenting a COPD case without smoking history sounded ridiculous. God saved the day for her she thought.As they were packing up, she looked at Dr.VRC who stood expressionless. She was happy that he had weirdly stopped the history. She couldn't thank him as she felt he was not such a friendly person. As she sat in the bus 'Did he do it on purpose? she thought.Hmm..she would never know.

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September 14th 2011

It was almost end of their 9th term. Avani and Ananya were stressed about their final internals.They were attending their final medicine postings as Avani felt their postings were a greater stress buster than bunking and studying in their rooms worrying about their Professor's ire on their lack of attendance.
Dr.Ashok Kawatra their senior Medicine PG gave them a relief that the day after they need not worry about preparing for next day's case. Instead they were supposed to attend the seminar presented by his co PG Dr.Venkateshwara R C.
Avani, Ananya, Mirza and Pooja were all happy. Seminars were looked forward by Medical students as they were some of the occasions were they would be treated as Doctors at SJRMC.They would be served snacks like Hot Samosas and Coffee which would be sponsored by the PG student presenting the seminar.It is not that these guys could not afford these foodstuffs and luxury outside. In fact they came from such wealthy households who could afford studying in a Private Medical school during that time. It is that feel of being made to feel like doctors that gave them pleasure.