Cerebral disconnection and its Consequences.

There are these times when you sit back and ponder over the bygone days of life and then certain incidents cross your mind which make you wonder,Am I stupid?No matter how hard you think you cannot come up with a rational explanation for your imbecility.Finally, you hypothesize that it was an accidental interference in some critical neuronal circuit and drift your mind to better thoughts.As exams and vivas are instances where cerebral exertion of a certain magnitude is expected,neuronal misfires tend to be more common in these occasions.The most recent episode which I can solely attribute to this phenomenon is my Final Year Gynaec viva when the madam,pointing to a hysterectomy specimen asked me to name some indications for the surgery and I promptly answered 'infertility'. Hysterectomy for infertility?I was as appalled as she was at my answer.Fortunately,the bell rang as my savior(that is the best thing about attending vivas,you need to spend only four minutes with the examiner) when she was about to a elaborate on her idea regarding my thoretical knowledge.

At times,a similar mishap occurs when reading the question paper.You tend to miss certain key words like the 'NOT' in' Which of the following is not....' or the 'EXCEPT' at the end of 'All the following are ...except'.Sometimes the accident may be more serious,your vision may me so blurred that you miss an entire question or worse,you may forget to turn the question paper and miss an entire section on the other side.Another unusual phenomenon that can occur is that you are grappled by a temperory visual hallucination,new letters are inserted into a word and the question attains a whole different meaning.For instance,in my last medicine exam,I read the question 'W.H.O ladder' as 'W.H.O Bladder'.The question puzzled me for quite some time,there was spinal bladder,UMN bladder,LMN bladder but WHO Bladder??

Similar calamities can occur if you overexert your grey cells under circumstances where it is not desirable.It was my Surgery posting and our professor was engaged in the favorite entertainment of men in his circle-asking us questions and jeering at our ignorance.He asked us to the name the classification for tachycardia in thyrotoxicosis.As we stared at him vacantly,he decided to churn the answer out of us by giving a 'clue'."What will you do if I start scolding you now?'.The question was directed to me,the answer he wanted was simple-'cry' and the name of the classification was 'Kriles'.He would have promptlyly got the answer if I was a kindergarten student.But my train of thought went as

1.If sir starts scolding me now,when I'have done nothing nothing wrong,I'll be offended and hurt and I will say to myself 'Enthoru kashttammanithu'

2.But,that is in Malayalam,someone who speaks English would say 'Damn it!'

As I have not yet given an answer he gives me the next clue'It starts with C"

3.'Damn it' is a .....Curse!!

With Murphy's support the last part was said loud enough for him to hear!

The Consequence-A fine rendition on the degradation of moral values in the present generation,how 'they treated their teachers twenty years ago,also there was a nasty part on what he thought about me. I was already in his bad books for writing a leave letter for my unit mate the same day morning( unfortunate because someone else was about to write it,I was bored and insisted that I'll do it as I had not written one in a long time)

At the end,I did cry as he expected in the answer to his question:)