Subtle

My friend KM was slightly disappointed: He had to write a warning letter to our interns, and he decided to use less offensive wordings; many of us disagreed.

Although love to say things in a subtle manner, I was one of those who tried to persuade him to use more explicit a language. (See http://drkmchow.blogspot.com/2010/05/wording.html)

While all these were happening, a little story that happened shortly before I took my final MB examination came to my mind.

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As a tradition, our class invited professors of surgery to give us revision lectures. (I suppose you know what these revision lectures were all about. If not, you are probably working in a non-medical field.)

The one by PC, our professor of orthopedics, came first. He gave an one hour talk in the lecture theatre, touching almost everything in the field, apparently without any focus.

Our class (most of us, at least) was perplexed. That evening, when we went back to the hostel and met in the common room, the confusion eventually crystallized into one point: What question was he actually going to put up for the examination ?

You see, that's serious. It was the primary purpose of the revision lecture, and a life-or-death situation. Our class immediately decided to ask CK, our class representative, to pay a visit to PC's office and clarify what he was trying to say.

(To be continued.)