April 11, 2019 Thursday
Bedtime Story
Jeckeln and the Aravind Eye Care System
In case of ocular surgeries such hooking up
of external eye muscles that make the eye move in different directions are
called bridle sutures since as in the case of a horse it helps the surgeon to
control or “direct” the eye ball.
In truth such types of bridle sutures in
ocular surgeries generate working space for the surgeon to work upon by means
of a very limited but extremely valuable control over eye torsion or rotation
through the application of torque force.
The torque force is generated on the eye
ball because the muscles attached to the eye are being used as a lever with the
muscle itself being the beam and its point of attachment and the point of
bridle suture passing under it as the fulcrum.
You must forgive me that I am actually
hijacking the word “torque” from its mathematical, physical and mechanical
engineering terminologies and applying it very loosely to our surgical work.
Yet the basic components of torque are
still in place in our work such as action at a distance (even though everything
in our line is either in millimeters or micrometer which is equal to 1 x 10-6
meter), rotation about a fulcrum, force being applied and work being done.
What are visibly and perhaps
disappointingly absent are the numbers and equations.
Immediately as the surgeon finishes the
surgery he shifts to the adjacent table while the nurse pads and bandages the
operated eye.
There are then the mobile nurses most often
new, less skilled and less experienced whose sole task is to ferry the patients
from one place to other much akin to the task that was given to a section of
Nazi Orpo.
As the patient is ferried out back to his
ward the next patient whose eye has been anesthetized in the pre-operative and
is planned for surgery replaces the outgoing patient in the operating table
that was just rendered empty.
While Aravind Eye Care System has perfected
this assembly line system (the founder of this system Dr. V used to proudly
call it “the McDonald’s of Eye Hospital”) to give vision to people who are
afflicted with reversible forms of blindness in case of Nazis and Jeckeln it
was the extermination and clean disposal of undesired at the lowest cost and
highest efficiency.
It was something on this type of assembly
line principle that the “Jeckeln System” was based upon.
Once the undesired had been brought to the
killing pits they were made to strip off their clothes and get rid of all
possessions that they might have carried.
Nothing extra was supposed to fill those
dug-up pits as creating them required energy and manpower.
These naked and hapless men, women and
children were then made to pass under the scrutiny of double file of guards
before they reached the final destination of the killing pits.
The next step probably was the most evil,
grotesque and repugnant that these harmless people were forced to undergo.
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
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