Indian Medic

It is true that one thing that your heart wants more than anything else, eludes you the most. For me it is a chance to make a successful career. For which as I have expounded before, I need to get admission to a Post - Graduation course of my choice in a reasonable good institution.
But this year too, destiny has wielded a fatal blow to my aspirations of achieving any of the above. The results of the few entrance exams I appeared for are out and I did not make the cut.

I am terribly disappointed, yes. But there is no time to mourn. I have to plan what I will be doing next. The options are, but few. I wait it out for another year and strike again. Meanwhile I do a plain post job somewhere, which will give me time to study.

Or I could appear for DNB (Diplomate of National board) which is a degree equivalent to MD/MS, but is done in private hospitals and is a tad more difficult to finally emerge from, I hear. This may be a done deal in six months, but I am unsure as how to go about doing it. Of course there is another entrance exam I need to get out of the way for entering DNB!!!

The whole deal sucks. No wonder many of my colleagues are escaping this almost tyrannical system of my country to study and practice in countries like the US and UK where you are what you are worth! But I am sure there is a whole other side to that coin, I have no idea about.
I am sorry if I sound bitter. But 2007 was supposed to be my year. Well now it doesn’t look like it is meant to be.

Well but I know this not the end of the story here. If anything, my resolution is only firmer still. I will crack the damned exam and set forth on the career course I have charted for myself, if that’s the last thing I do.

I am not superstitious, hell, I am not even devout. Neither do I believe in stuff like ‘Karm’(Karma). But I believe in something that’s above everything else - HOPE. And I know in my heart ‘This too shall pass…’