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Shortly after the Father's Day, we were holding the specialty board examination for our College.

It's a viva voce but the process is both dull and time consuming. This time, there're only three candidates - one for exit examination and two for interim assessment - but there are six examiners, all consultant grade, and one observer. All of us had to meet two hours before the examination actually started, so that we could, during lunch, go through all questions that each of us put up.

As you expect, soon after lunch and all paper work, we became engaged in more casual discussion.

"FK, what do our friends in private practice think about the problem of outdated qualification mentioned in the morning paper recently?" One of us asked. FK is another examiner - a nephrologist in private practice.

And, listening to the question, he just smiled.