Very right indeed.
A patient has to be well with the doctors' disposition and not with the
prescription.
A story in point of another family dotor who is RIP.
I am talking of Dr. Silveira D'Souza from Nachinola, also a one time MLA of
Aldona.
When he was paralysed and when I went to visit him, he asked me how my
mother was. I said fine doc, why do you ask? And he said, "you must forgive
me because every time your mother came to me feverish and sort of ready to
die, I gave her a political talk and a laboriously prepared injection of
distilled water and charged her 10 rupees , for her not to be in doubt."
And I told him that this doses had served her right as no sooner she reached
home, she would be back to work in the fields and around doing chores.
Dr. Silveria had the medicine on his tongue. In the guise of fixing an
injection, he used to talk of everything else but the illness of the patient
and spent nothing less than an hour before he finished. And I know, when
called at home, my mother used to gawk at him with her open mouth digesting
his political tales, fever, cold, pain gone.. vanished. Plus there was the
extra potent dose of distilled water.
We shall NEVER forget him.
From the look of it , Dr. Babosa was someone like Dr. Silveira.
Cheers
floriano
GEAG/GSRP/GRA
PS: I wish there were more doctors like these now a days who do not
prescribe CT Scan, Chemo, Radiation , steroids and heart by-passes at the
touch of the stethoscope..
----- Original Message -----
From: "Pandu Lampiao" <[email protected]>
To: "JoeGoaUk" <[email protected]>; "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb.
1994!" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011 11:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Dr. Luis Proto Barbosa
Aye Joe-Utorda,
Was his patient mostly in the month of April-May. Thankfully, he never
pulled out his 'in-jesao'.
If I remember, most of his diagnosis were nothing is wrong or a temp
illness!!
He was a doctor whose talk made one feel better. He loved to talk.
Though he did prescribe those terrible liquid medicines.....which one
got from the Farmacie past Majorda rail station! Ayyyyyeeeee.
Though I must confess, what worked was likely 'cus-ment' made of
od-osha panna (a plant with small white flowers)!
