Dr.MRR's triad

This happened during my 2nd year of MBBS. Dr.M.Ramakrishna Rao sir, popularly known to our college as MRR sir, was about to give an Orientation class to our then freshers. He is especially known for his unique clinical opinions and in-depth conceptual knowledge that allows him to strip down every other clinical concept into its fundamental elements and provide analogies from our daily lives.

It reminds me of this quote from Albert Einstein when I see him breaking down clinical concepts, which is

or the other version of the same quote,

His session(Orientation class) included multiple insights on what a medical student is capable of; inventions and discoveries by medical students, etc.,

My important take-away from his session, that I still carry forward to this day, is his Three attributes of a good clinician

1. An Eagle’s vision

Meaning, to have a widened perspective with more clarity & to look at each patient as a whole, which in my opinion is the first rule of Diagnosticology(if that’s even a term).

2. Swiftness like a dog

Swiftness(not rapidness) as in being quick AND smooth - be it in handling emergencies, doing clinical procedures, monitoring multiple patients, etc.

3. Eat like a donkey

Donkeys have multiple small meals as & when possible. Here, referring to the eating pattern considering the untimely meal breaks owing to the usually hectic schedule that doctors are subjected to, possibly due to high patient load, etc.