My life, my times

Interviewee: Dr Joy Philip, Ex HOD, Dept of medicine,
Govt Med College, Trivandrum Presently Dean, SUT Academy of Medical Sciences, Trivandrum.

Q 1: What prompted you to take up medicine as a branch?
Medicine is a Unique Profession giving "Four-fold" "Satisfaction"

(1) "Spiritual Satisfaction" (In comforting the suffering)

(2)"Intellectual Satisfaction" (In "solving" "Diagnostic" & "Therapeutic" "Riddles"

(3)"Social Satisfaction" (Via Social Status, Respect & Recognition)

(4) "Economic Satisfaction" (at least reasonable financial gains expected)


Q 2: Would you want to single out any mentor during your early days of medicine and write about him or her?

I will consider Padmasree Prof K.N.Pai as my "Role Model". He had highly developed “Clinical Acumen","Excellent "Attitudes &Behaviour", "Deep" "Knowledge" & "Enviable" "Skills"-all combined in one person. He was an excellent teacher performing all the 4 "Roles" of a teacher with an "inimitable" "degree of excellence"-ie. "Informing","Instructing","Interest Instilling” as well as "Inspiring".

May his soul be Happy with Almighty God

Q 3: How did you end up in Rheumatology

I will say it was "Providential”. A minor role is "inspiration" from the famous lines of Poet Robert Frost: "Two roads diverged in the yellow woodI chose the one less travelled by and that has made all the difference"

Q 4: Who would you consider as your Rheumatology mentor?

Prof.A.N.Chandrasekharan, who started the first Independent Department of Rheumatology In India in Madras Medical College as my Guru in Rheumatology. I had my initial training in rheumatology under him, before going to UK on a WHO Fellowship in Rheumatology.

Q 5: Your message for today’s young Rheumatologist

(1) Please never feel that among different superspecialities, Rheumatology is "INFERIOR"

(2) Always consider the economic status of the patient, while choosing "Investigations" or "Line of Treatment"

(3) Let us always treat the "Person with the Disease" rather than "The Disease"

(4) Never criticise professional colleagues (including Practitioners of alternative systems of Medicine).

(5) Be a "life-Long" Learner

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