Architect of Anatomy, Surgeon of Skeleton - First Do No Harm...!

To be smitten and seduced by anatomy of unique human frame at the very first sight as a fearless bubbling teenager away from home for first time, accompanied by the ever-energetic urge to explore such carefully conceived and concealed curves, an amazingly attractive architecture of so well structured planes and layers and then to garner the ability to be able to surf through them effortlessly when need be, not for deriving sensual physical pleasures but for decimating the deforming physicality & the soul churning pain of the sufferer. 

Then to witness a mangled, folded or deformed skeleton beneath its sheath and the immense pain accompanying it is an utterly fearful sight in any ED/ OR, with tender students and young doctors frequently fearing & freezing at its sight, is only natural. The brave but reassuring act of being able to confront, comprehend and then close the deformity back to a comfortable form familiar to the deformed, conservatively or operatively, the unbelievably magical pain-relief it provides to the patient is so blissfully gratifying to the core, that even sleep, food, water, fatigue, fun, pleasures lose precedence. 

Core pillars of anatomy, the bones-joints and enveloping muscles, make life light enough to float around on legs defying gravity. So, surgical intervention is like, a skilled surfer capable of carefully surfing the treacherous waves of anatomy and path-anatomy, trouble shooting the problem deep within the smooth surface and then escaping back to surface without inadvertently damaging or rendering vulnerable by any measure the strength of the frame of the sufferer.

Surgery like poetry, painting, writing, sporting, meditating becomes a selfless adventure for the sake of serving while losing your self in serving any of these timeless skills. If the onlookers in and outside the ED/ OR are not deeply absorbed in & equally fascinated by my performance on a faithful patient individual, then I suppose their is something lacking in my closed or scalpel skills attending to the axial and appendicular skeleton. Being labelled as plumbers by onlookers is not good enough, if the labellers themselves are not willing to be ploughed & plumbed by myself, in an unfortunate circumstance.

If my onlookers do not sign an implied consent deep within their hearts beyond words - willing to be as patient as the one they are witnessing being operated upon by me, if unfortunately the need be, while watching me perform; then my skills need discipline, refinement, care, and compassion beyond calculations.


The discipline lies in immense restraint - "Primum non nocere"...!