Sunday, November 25, 2007

Gems of PSM

After my brain underwent liquefactive necrosis reading the eternal Park, I decided to take my revenge... Here it goes gems from Park, chosen from the very best...

  1. Yaws is a shining example. (so is Park)
  2. The vital layer is the "heart" of slow sand filter.
  3. The "heart" of activated sludge process is the aeration tank.
  4. Randomization is the "heart" of a trial. (there are other organs in the body, you know)
  5. Many villagers in South India do not wear shoes. (And they wear alligator-skin boots in the North...eh?)
  6. Stale fish should be condemned. (they have my sympathy)
  7. Natons and civilizatons are linked together not only by ideas, but also by bread. (A good attempt at being thought-provoking)
  8. Creation of public awareness is the sine qua non of a successful public health programme. (hey, look, I speak other languages just as badly)
  9. A model is the abstraction of reality, not reality itself. (wtf)
  10. There existed a civilization in the Indus Valley, known as the Indus valley civilization. (Ahhh, I get it now...)
  11. A dependance producing drug is one that has the capacity to produce dependence. (if my i.q. was 15, I wouldn't be here in mbbs)
  12. A physiologist got Noble prize for describing this substance. ( I mean, wtf, if you mention his name, nobody's suing you for copyright theft.)
  13. Time is money, someone said. (who cares, if someone said it or not, i mean, WHO CARES...)
  14. The Act makes the beginning of a new era in the history of vital Statistics registration in India. (yawwwnnnnn...)
  15. Garfield has stressed the need to meet the demands of medical care by seperating screenees into well, asymptomatic-sick and sick groups. ( Kaun Garfield, the cat, or is he the elusive physiologist...?)
  16. The voluntary Health agencies have been compared to motor trucks which can penetrate the by-ways, and the official agencies to Railway Trunk lines which must run on tracks established by the law. (Park can be compared to a park where I fall off the bench and fracture my cranium)
  17. Length can be taken most accurately with an infantometer, with a fixed head piece on which the infant lies supine with its legs fully extended and the feet flexed at right angles to the lower legs. (lower legs.. lower legs???)

I ll keep adding to the list. This list like Park is limitless...

3 comments:

Ananya said...

Gems from PSM- Continued...
1) Adolescensce is a period of rosy dreams, adventure, love and romance.
2)Some people commit suicide by drowning, many by smoking.
3)The responsibility of the family is to 'socialise the stream of new-born barbarians'.
4) A river is a direct connection between the alimentary canals of the people living upstream and the mouths of those below.
5) Cholera is the "father of Public health"
6)Houseflies are called "porters of infections"
7) Good habits like wearing sea-belts can protect us from diseases( e.g. Venereal diseases)
8) Hospitals are termed as 'ivory towers of diseases'.
9) Health continues to be a neglected entity despite lip service
10)It is left to posterity to review our errors and accomplishments. This is how medicine has evolved down the centuries and will continue to evolve...
Cheers!
Do tell me one thing, after all this hard work, I hope I don't flunk!

Sam said...

Isnt it amazing ananya... Park is endless in its own derision...

Aniruddha Agarwal said...

i wish i could hit like a few times :)