While NEET Counselling was going on (now over?) I got a few calls from friends/acquaintances asking if Pathology is a good option for post-graduation. It’s not the first time I’ve been asked this but it always makes me smile. Because the reason behind the query is this — Nobody remembers what Pathology was like! I mean, nobody ever asks if pediatrics or surgery or dermatology or ophthalmology etc are good options.
But Pathology … hmm… what exactly did we learn in Pathology? With apologies to brainiacs who still remember the page numbers of their Robbins textbook, I would say that for the majority of students, Pathology was a rather vague and confusing subject where the pathogeneses and morphologies of all the diseases seemed to be composed of the same set of words all jumbled up and rearranged in slightly different orders. Or, for the really pathologically-challenged group, it was that…
