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BOOK REVIEW |
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| Year : 2017 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 260 |
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Bipolar
Rishavdeb Patra
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research and SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
| Date of Web Publication | 12-Sep-2017 |
Correspondence Address:
Rishavdeb Patra
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatric Surgery, Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research and SSKM Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal
India
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0971-9261.214456
How to cite this article:
Patra R. Bipolar. J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg 2017;22:260 |
 Author: Anurag Kumar
Edition: 1st Edition
Year of Publication: 2017
Publisher: Notion Press
Price: Rs. 220
ISBN: 978-1-947137-28-8
Pages: 180
It gives me immense pleasure to write a review for the book, Bipolar, authored by Dr. Anurag Kumar. At the outset, I must congratulate the author who has narrated his journey in his medical profession in the form of stories.
By Bipolar, he means medical profession has two sides to it; one on either side of the white coat. Outside the white coat is a society that looks upon a doctor as a cold, heartless businessperson – a situation that often gives rise to unsavory incidents in hospitals. But, Bipolar deals with what is inside the white coat and traces the journey of a medical student right from the point of admission in the medical college, passing through ragging (now thankfully banned), cadavers, training, and takes the reader into the nitty-gritty of the profession itself.
In this book, experience during the ragging period has been nicely written in a humorous manner in the chapter – Exercise. He has nicely written about his real experience in operating theater with the senior colleagues during the initial period of his surgical career in the chapter – Pyjama Story. In the chapter – Superman – he has nicely written about his experience with pan and cigarette seller. Experience in labor room and in final MBBS gynecology examination has been written in the chapter – Marks of Blood. In the chapter, The Sermon in the Chamber, experience of a resident doctor after death of his patient whom he has operated has been narrated. The chapter – The Thump – is very interesting in which the real experience of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in cardiac Intensive Care Unit has been written in a humorous manner. The experience of doing first tracheostomy has been nicely written in the chapter – The Insane Tracheostomy. In the chapter, Light in the Dark room, the story of a radiologist, how he saved a gynecologist who had inadvertently left a pair of scissors inside the abdomen, has been nicely written. For a surgery resident, there are two basic instincts that need to be looked after – hunger and sleep – and how he fulfills the two has been written in the chapter – Birds.
I recommend that every doctor should read this book, which is written in a very humorous way in the form of stories, which are real experiences of a doctor so that he/she gets motivated whenever he/she gets depressed due to some sad experience during his/her long medical journey. I congratulate Dr. Anurag Kumar for his sincere effort to bring out this book, as these stories are unique.
Thanking you
Yours sincerely
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