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An evening spent laughing
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There was collective dismay when fans and his patients learnt G. Lakshmipathi was admitted to hospital.
But happily, he is well and his funny bone is intact as everyone found out at the Humour Society’s recent gathering.
Despite IPL’s monopoly on TV and two other celebrities being in town the same evening, there was a satisfying number of bellies present, shaking with laughter.
Sitting in a comfortable auditorium letting laughter wash over you is therapeutic.
And, the good doctor himself said that it was only because he was President of the Humour Society that he had made such rapid recovery!
“How to enjoy your hospital stay” was therefore Lakshmipathi’s chosen topic for the day. And, he admitted that doctors made the worst patients.
Patient knock
That was followed by a helpful power point presentation on the ‘Dos and Don’ts’ for a hospital stay (Lakshmipathi assured the audience that everyone would be admitted someday, so they were advised to take notes).
Speaking of his unending visitors, he attributed that to the fact that people were curious how doctors fared as patients in hospitals.
It was the same curiosity that would be aroused if a police station were burgled or a fire station burst into flames!
There were references to helpful and useless advice everyone felt honour bound to give the hapless patient. (There is no greater joy than offering therapy without worrying about consequences, he explained).
He advised aspiring male patients not to get carried away by sponge baths by good-looking nurses. “It was not foreplay, nor a romantic signal,” he warned.
It is only Dr Lakshmipathi’s vast experience and his years (“I am only a couple of years younger than Hippocrates”, he says) that saves him from being branded ‘politically incorrect’. Gender bias, fat-people comments, and of course his obvious delight with scatological details abound.
But, they are so truly funny and he follows them up with such hilarious comments on his own kind, that one has to forgive him.
PANKAJA SRINIVASAN
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