They say that Punjabi girls make the best air hostesses, Kerala girls make the best nurses, and the tamil girls make the best maths teachers! I have no issues with punjabi girls and tamil girls....but this 'mallu girls making the best nurses' I have some qualms about it. The statement could be 'most of the mallu girls become nurses'.I have made such a blunt observation out of my own experience as an inpatient in the hospitals.
Even in high end hospitals, nurses are under paid and overworked. The 20 something mallu girls who look malnourished, underweight, manage to put on a plastic smile, address the patients as 'aundy, ungle' and go about their work systematically. But if an extraordinary situation arises, where they have to respond orally to the patient, they are at a loss. Most of them are no good in English nor can they speak Hindi as they hail from non hindi belt. Even if they speak these languages, it sounds more like malayalam than english or hindi. So they choose to work silently...Here is how it is...
It was one of my chemo sessions. The intravenous bottle was fixed and the needle was stuck in my port. The nurse went on turning my head this side, that side and all sides for a few minutes..I got annoyed and demanded to know what was happening..The girl was frightened and ran to her senior, who came to me and explained that the flow was not satisfactory and that the nurse was adjusting the position of my head and neck...I said the nurse should have told me that and also instructed me, 'turn your head to left, right, up, down etc.'..instead of manipulating me like a rag doll..
Now in retrospect, I can understand that the young thing was
lacking in communication and did what she knew silently..
Hope the mallu girls learn the art of talking and live up to their reputation!
MAIL FROM SELVARAJAN
ReplyDeleteTamils are calculative, they use brains not common sense is a fact. (though we are also tamils, we should accept that we are not practical). Punjabis are fit, thanks to their wheetish skin and plastic smile... (beauty is skin deep). Majority of Kerala Nurses are pitiable, fact is there is no job market in Kerala. It is their one and only traditional job. I don't know who discovered their strength in this field. But truly they are underpaid, hence the thin frame. Most live in hostels, send more than 60 % of their poor earnings. Now that Nursing is a common commodity in Kerala, quality is also questionable. All the 3 tribes become obsolete after 3 decades of life.... sad but true!!!!
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