Sister

 May 12 is indeed a special day for me. Yes, there is a certain very important  personal reason. I am not exactly sure whether  if i were to share it here in the public space, it would be much appreciated. Well, when the small ones in the family become big, grow up, their personal space shrinks inversely, and becomes smaller, and as a doting aunt, you love to respect it.

So now the public reason why the day is unique, special. Well, it is the Sisters' Day. No, not to worry. I am not going to wax eloquent about the sibling bond.

Well, the person i am referring to is equally affectionate. Professionally at least, it is her calling, that is, she is supposed to be as affectionate and caring as a real sister. Yes, you guessed it right.

I am referring to a nurse, known as 'sister' in the common parlance. She is a doctor's, especially a surgeon's, right hand. For a patient, especially when critically ill, she should be more a mother than a sister actually. Unfortunately, however, given the corporatisation of the medical field, very few of this variety, affectionate, kind, gentle, patient friendly  would exist.

Very soon, however, this field, like the job of a personal assistant of the elderly, known as a Mavashi (a mother's sister supposedly!), would get taken up by personal robots, super efficient, taught to be polite, to speak kindly and gently!

A dream come true it would be for those who can afford it, of course. As for the rest of the vast majority, the 'patient' prayer would be, oh, Lord, let the specimen allotted to me, be like a real sister, nurturing, ubiquitous, rare, sophisticated, efficient!

Pratima @ A nurse should never be noisy, uncouth, rough n rude, selfish, egoistic! Such nurses, available in abundance, make many lives from birth to the end, of 'patient' sufferance!