This Is The Time

Image courtesy: The family REMEMBERING A DOCTOR The hospital was unassuming. It was on the way to Brodipeta from the center of Palakol, a town in coastal Andhra Pradesh. Palakol is famous as a pacharama kshetra. We have an age old temple dedicated to Lord Ksheera Ramalingeswara. Our place is called Ksheerarama, one of the famous pancharamas which are important Hindu temples. Here lived and practiced our good doctor, giving his invaluable suggestions to his patients. To him, the interest of the patient always came first. It didn't matter whether the patient is rich or poor. Of course, most of his patients are poor peasants. They belonged to a nearby village by name Ullamparru. The name the hospital Sri Satyanarayana Nursing Home was depicted on a faded tin board. The doctor's hospital was called as potti (meaning short in Telugu) doctor's hospital. Because the present doctor's father was short and he is also a doctor. The name stuck, even to the son, as he ...