My SMO then objected saying that Aviation Medicine is neither a sub-section nor an office of SMC!    S in SMO stands for "Senior Medical Officer" or it could be Single/Senile/Sarcastic/Snorting/Stupid....

 He snorted and said (Quote) ?In my 30 years in the medical branch I have seen Aviation Medicine being practiced only once a year centrally that is during the conference, where after downing pegs & pegs of (sponsored) Peter Scot and few legs of chicken (courtesy IAM) you all have been reading same papers over and over again for last 30 years!!!

Isn't it a pity that for 30 years someone has kept his eyes and ears shut, refused to recognise progress and appears to be out of touch with reality. Incidentally the Whiskey was Blender's Pride and 100 Pipers on atleast one occasion - a factual error. But I suppose that you can not reason with a person who is not amenable to reason and reality and choses to live in a fool's paradise.

>               Needless to say there were heated arguments and taking umbrage of (ON - would be better here) the snide remarks, we took upon the task of making a mission statement for our specialty. Sirs, believe you (You is not required here, though often misused by many- believe me it was a herculean task adequately conveys what you intended to say)me it was a Herculean task!! and took Upadhyay and me few days to spell out about what we Aviation Medicine Specialists are supposed to do at any flying base. Finally a draft is ready. It is on A3 size paper so that it can be printed mounted and displayed. I will like all of you to study the statement critically and give your valuable remarks/amends/suggestions. It is my personal ambition to see the statement after all the amendments suggested by you all, proudly displayed in our chambers for e very body to read and know (and for ourselves also to remind us of our duties).

>       OOPS sorry if I hit below the belt again,Cheers, Dilish

No You did not! You did well to express your views. But do you really require a mission statement to convince such an unreasonable person?   

Pandit Nehru wrote in his book "Discovery of India" that development officers were appointed in each block (of villages) to ensure development of the area however, they assumed that BDO meant Block The Development Officer. I suppose some fellows feel that Preventive Medicine means Preventing the practice of Medicine/Aviation Medicine!!!

By the way I haven't received your letter supposedly sent through your friend whom you were to accompany!!

Cheers and keep the flag flying!!!  Remain FIT TO FLY.

dr r kapur