Losing A Stethescope...

Being a doctor is difficult when you have supposedly high standards to live up to... Those set by great and famous doctors of lore and before, those set by the great oldies who've grudgingly taught you year after year till you pass, and those set by the general patient population who swarm in like bees in the OPDs and keep buzzing around and lingering long after they've seen their doctor just to put in a word of thanks...

Now a stethescope is a status symbol of sorts in various communities... Here it's rather cool and rad to walk around with a steth around your neck. You feel good, the watchmen don't stop you and salute you as you walk past as you give a small nod in response... There actually are schools of thought whether to hang it so that the bell/diaphragm end is left or right on your chest... (I put it on my left...)

Most colleges have medicos wearing white coats so they shove their steths in their pockets but just so that both ends stick out just enough for everyone to see who they are... Common behaviour.

Of course surgeons and superconsultants don't carry steths... They're too cool to do so... They just borrow the intern's steth. :P

And so in the midst of all this... I go lose a stethescope... Which cost around 4 grand... Which wasn't mine... For which I don't have a good enough replacement nor the money to pay back... And for which I have to pay asap. It's a really sick feeling... Almost devil and the deep sea type situation.

I'm sure there are the people who are aghast with disbelief and the ones who've gone through this situation... Well it's happened... How do I pay for this mistake now?