NREF Success Story:
Timir Banerjee, MD, FAANS(L)

I always wanted to be a writer and a doctor,

I had a secret desire to be a doctor author,

And be successful as Dr. Michael Crichton,

Without the residency of such long duration.

In the Terminal Man,

I understood why Dr. Crichton,

Wrote an apology editorial.

Everyone with temporal lobe epilepsy,

Definitely is not a criminal.

In the writings by Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle,

Sherlock Holmes stood out in pensive mood,

An astute observer and a quirky maverick.

Dr. Watson, his whistling safety kettle,

Enticed the reader to think beyond the usual,

As the constant yes man, inscrutably suitable.

The exhausting duration of residency,

To be a practicing doctoring entity,

Often interferes with life’s other necessities.

Constant encounter with situations of almost death,

And the night calls in ER and the sadness,

Tests the limit of tolerance and performance.

In Fathers and Sons by Turgenev,

I learnt the power of accepting differences,

In the conversation, to understand nihilism,

Brought me to a world of differing arguments.

As in Ayn Rand’s philosophy on objectivism.

But it is Victor that inspired me

In the demonic story of Shelley

Where she brought to life, the Frankenstein.

The thrill of being able,

To operate on the brain,

I feel the intimacy of touching,

As though in another soul;

The sense of responsibility,

The fear of death or disability,

Causes psychological drain,

The joy of being trustworthy,

Full of compassion and caring,

In the frantic pace,

That is agonizingly stressful.

Then I read Ballad of the Goodly Fere,

Again, and I feel healed and joyful again.