


He did not think it was any of his business to provide comforting lies when as a matter of course nature would tell them the truth in a few hours. He never believed that agreeable words ever saved lives. Long years of practice of this kind had bred in the doctor a certain curt truthfulness for that very reason his opinion was valued he was not a mere doctor expressing an opinion but a judge pronouncing a verdict. There was no scope or time for any kind of wavering or whitewashing.

Raman for them, there was something ominous in the very association.Īs a result, when the big man came on the scene it was always a quick decision one way or another. The reason was obvious-visiting fee twenty-five rupees, and more than that, people liked to shirk the fact that the time had come to call in Dr. Raman often burst out, ‘Why couldn’t you have come a day earlier?’ People came to him when the patient was on his last legs.
