Day 11: Take a left through the doggy door 1/3/14

Day 11: Take a left through the doggy door.

Friday

Today was a travel day. We arrived in Delhi at around 2pm and the first thing we did was grab a bite to eat. The water situation in India is one to be recond with. The tap water has bacteria and the hands that wash most of the food are usually quit dirty. The un-sanitaryness of India makes it difficult to get one’s share of veggies. As one who love tomatoes and lettuce and other things that need washing, I would come to hate this. However, for those who remember my earlier journal entry, I vowed not to eat anymore meat on this trip. I have broken this vow and am trying to get my hands on piping hot roast chicken at meal times. My feeling about meat is yes I, I felt myself f ts grotty when you think about the market, but it is cooked all the way, uses no water, and sits better in my stomach then some of the grays that make up a majority of Inidan cooking

Today was definitely not the best day of the trip taking into account I did not learn much. This was a travel day, with one hospital experience. Yesterday’s journal (it may not be out yet) was the smallest hospital. Medanta is by far the largest hospital. A forty acre complex, the owner of Medanta was a interesting and very odd dude. We got the chance to meet with this man because of a contact my dad had back in the states. It was extremely interesting to meet with this almost brattish dude in his tenth floor pent house office. First of all, Dr. Naresh Trehan had a ton of security around him. In order to get to his office, you had to talk to a guard from “Secerataus” who would tap on a frosted glass automatic door that would lead you straight to his office.

The entire time we were meeting with this dude, there were about ten other people in the room-five of which were security. Over the fifteen minute span of the meeting, Grace counted 9 phone calls that were entered in the ten by ten office. They had no correlation to the descustion, and neither did they have any importance at the moment. The most hilarious part of the answered call was the one Dr.Naresh Trehan picked up. I couldn’t hear that much considering there were about five conversations going at once. But I could here this much: “Sure…sure..tell them that they can enter through the doggie door.” WTF? Seriously esteemed cardiovascular surgeon? Is that important Naresh?
Medanta Hospital

The man did not have that many sites either. He claims that the key to the hospital’s success is being a “big ass business.”

I have to admit. I once or twice felt myself almost falling into a slumber to sich no traveler returns. To deal with this, I did what most people do. I left the office, grabbed two napkins from the front desk (god knows why there are complementary napkins at the front desk of a hospital) and visited the restroom. I laid the two napkins on the floor a small distance apart from each other. O got down and placing one hand on one napkin I did 30 pushups. Then I went pea and splashed my face with cold water and then sunk my nails into my face. That last part was dumb because now I have a long scratch down my nose. But ill tell ye. I didn’t go to sleep again.

Dinner was mediocre. We found an awesome Parisian dessert place that was owned by a very nice couple.