The friend believes the doctor’s word and relaxes. Raman cannot bring himself to ask his friend to do so and lies, assuring the friend that he would survive. In due course, the friend regains consciousness and requests the doctor to arrange for preparing the will so that his family would not suffer due to mischief makers. He avoids directly answering the queries of the family and starts treating his friend. ![]() The doctor visits the patient and is immediately faced with a dilemma. One day his best friend’s son comes to inform the doctor that his father was sick. His consultation fee was high enough barrier but even more than that, people did not like to admit to themselves that the time had come to consult him! He would often complain that the patients were brought to him too late! Once he decided that the patient could be saved he would take up the case and invariably succeed. He could diagnose whether the patient would survive or not. The collection is available for free download from .ĭr. The Doctor’s Word, a short story in the collection “Malgudi Days” by R K Narayan first published in 1943. Reading them before perusing the analysis presented below is obviously better than relying on the extremely brief summary provided here. The goal of this series of posts is to develop a parallel to my personal philosophy, presented in my books (available for download from the ABOUT page of the blog) through selected pieces of short fiction.
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