My longtime buddy from the medical college days, who left for the UK many years ago, to flourish as a critical care specialist thereafter, suddenly called me and generously thanked me for the profound advise that I had given to him when we had met a year back. Then, he was sitting on the horns of a dilemma, and wanted my opinion on his deep desire to return to India, his "Motherland". I had brushed it off as a "mid-life crisis situation", which needed deeper introspection.
I briefed him on the pros and cons vis-à-vis the challenges faced by us as doctors in India, which stoked enough apprehensions in his already clouded mind. As a result, he put his idea on the back-burner, temporarily. And recently, when he called me for saving him from committing a major blunder, there was a tinge of anguish and sympathy as he said: "I am so shocked at the reprehensible and uncivilised manner of the…
