We, the 1960 entrants Batch, had finished our internships and were waiting for our post-intern postings. The Brahmins at the Head Office in the Health Department drew up the list of peripheral units, where the post-intern doctors would go. This was theoretically done on the merit list of the Final MBBS in Colombo, because this was the only medical faculty in 1965 - Peradeniya would produce their first pass out with MBBS 2 years later. The GMOA did not have a say in the drawing of the list. Quite a few post--interns used their acquaintances at head office, to get posted to stations close to Colombo. This was called 'pull' in the vocabulary of the medicos.
The interns at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital had a party - a night of booze, tastes, singing and fried rice was the order of the day. Thavarasa, Ooyirilankumaran, Weerasinghe, Tissa Kappagoda and Geri Jayasekara were there in addition to the Senior House Officers. Near the end of the party by way of conversation I remarked to Geri "Machan Geri, I am sure you will be getting a posting close to Colombo, because you may be having a lot of 'Pull'. Geri's immediate response was ' What 'pull' Machan, the only thing that I can pull is my fore-skin'. A Doctor who had been circumcised as a child added ' I can't even do that'.
The interns at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital had a party - a night of booze, tastes, singing and fried rice was the order of the day. Thavarasa, Ooyirilankumaran, Weerasinghe, Tissa Kappagoda and Geri Jayasekara were there in addition to the Senior House Officers. Near the end of the party by way of conversation I remarked to Geri "Machan Geri, I am sure you will be getting a posting close to Colombo, because you may be having a lot of 'Pull'. Geri's immediate response was ' What 'pull' Machan, the only thing that I can pull is my fore-skin'. A Doctor who had been circumcised as a child added ' I can't even do that'.
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