Bluff07

Bluffing is not limited to the Examinations.
It is a part and parcel of Medicine.
It continues into your 'Practice'.
        Some Doctors bluff for money -- they are a disgrace;
         But you often have to bluff
                     for the good of the patient.

This is a very effective injection,
You'll feel better immediately

Don't worry grandpa,
You'll be OK
Don't worry

In second MBBS, you are impressed every now and then,
by the knowledge of your registars,
      and the way, they fire it out like a machine-gun.

But if at the end of III MBBS - III Term,
   You turn back the pages of your note-book,
        you will notice that they were not counting on knowledge ( which is
        hardly a few words beyond Belly & Davidson ),
              but on bluffing it out impressively.

And well .... that's why they have succeeded in becoming registars.

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For years togather, medical students have been enheartened
   by the first sentence in J.L.Burton's ' Aids to Medicine ' -

   " Examinations are formidable
              even to the best prepared,
      for the greatest fool may ask more
              than the wisest man can answer. "

He should have added another encouraging sentence, that -

    " The wisest man cannot ask,
             what the Greatest fool cannot Bluff. "

       But still ....the fact remains
            that ' Examinations are formidable.'

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