ENGLISH Answer the Questions [S.U.][2 MARKS]

The progress in the field of medical science is astounding. Every day, new medicines are invented for various diseases, which make yesteryears treatment outdated and redundant. In fact, people say that after five years, the surgical procedure would be so advanced that today’s surgical instruments will be termed as ‘Butchers instruments’. Organ transplant is such a procedure, which speaks volumes about the radical advancement in medical science. This progress turned out to be a real boon in my friend’s life. She suffered a renal failure. In spite of mammoth efforts, a matching donor could not be found. There was an appeal made for the donor in all the leading dailies and television, and the miracle happened-‘A perfect match was found. The doctors wasted no time and the kidney transplant took place. With God’s grace, my friend is leading healthy life. It happened almost fifteen years back’.

From time immemorial, we have been hearing that there is a lot of difference between theory and practice. This, indeed, is true. The theoretical information gathered from the book, sometime, does not provide solutions to all the problems. The medical textbook provides information about the treatment of various diseases but at times, the doctors face a dilemma which cannot be solved by any orthodox theory. In the lesson ‘Birth’ Dr Andrews undergoes the same experience. When the mother and son both needed his attention, he had to make a decision. In this decision making, no medical textbook could have helped him. In this case, Dr Andrew acted instinctively. He first saved the mother and then the child. He treated the mother with the traditional treatment and the child with a mixture of traditional and intuitive treatment. The net result of both was success.

Andrew is a doctor and the primary duty of the doctor is to save life. When he is faced with a dilemma, he does not lose his balance and does what he is expected to do. He saves the mother first and, by his Herculean efforts, saves a nearly dead, stillborn baby boy. What he performed was nothing short of miracle. Doctor’s sense of satisfaction is truly justified.
Doctors are expected to do their duties as and when demanded. Andrew came home at midnight. He, surely, would have been tired but responded to the duty call when Joe Morgan asked him to come to his place. Morgan’s wife needed immediate help. Andrew performed his duties exceptionally well. That is why he says, “I have done something; oh God! I’ve done something real at last”.

Andrew Manson is a young man who has recently qualified as a.doctor and started his medical practice as an assistant to Dr Edward Page in the small Welsh mining town of Blaenelly. He is in love with Christine and thinks of marriage as an idyllic state. His heart is overflowing with love. His steady mind and reason help him see the marriages of many persons as dismal failures. Andrew is mature enough to keep his private and professional lives apart. Once confronted with his responsibility, he discharges his obligations to the utmost capacity. He is duty conscious. He is not a theorist only. He believes in practical approach. He is pragmatic and is not afraid to try unique methods. Andrew has a tender heart. He is aware of the feelings of others. He knows how deeply Susan loved her coming baby. He has polite manners and reassuring tone. On the whole, Andrew impresses us as a dedicated doctor.

At the beginning of the story, Andrew is physically tired and emotionally upset. He has just returned from a disappointing evening with Christine, the girl he loved. His thoughts are heavy and muddled. The episode he had witnessed at Cardiff station still filled his mind with sadness. Though he thought of marriage as a blissful state, he couldn’t help remembering the miserable failure of many marriages. At the end of the story, Andrew is physically exhausted but emotionally cheerful and mentally alert. His mind is filled with joy and self-satisfaction. He has performed an unusual feat, no- less than a miracle. He calls upon God as witness that he has done something real at last. This sense of achievement helps him to overcome physical fatigue. His sense of duty towards his patients helps him to attend them wholeheartedly. He forgets his personal feelings and thinks only of reviving the patients.

A shiver of horror passed over Andrew as he gazed at the still form of the newborn baby. Though it was a perfectly formed boy, its limp warm body was white. The whiteness meant suffocation caused by lack of oxygen. Andrew remembered the treatment given to such a case in the Samaritan. Before the hot and cold water came he had asked for, he laid the child upon a blanket and gave it artificial respiration. Then he dipped the child alternately in hot and cold water. Now, the child was quite slippery. He rubbed it with a rough towel. Then he pressed and released his chest till it heaved up. It was followed by other heaves. Andrew redoubled his efforts. The child started gasping. A bubble of mucus came from one tiny nostril. The pale skin turned pink. The limbs were no longer boneless. His head did not lie back spinelessly. The child gave a cry. It came alive.

Andrew Manson had just begun his medical practice in the small Welsh mining town of Blaenelly. He was called in to attend to Susan Morgan, who was expecting her first child after being married for nearly twenty years. Her husband, Joe Morgan had been waiting for an hour outside the closed surgery. It was nearly midnight when Andrew reached there. As Joe acquainted Andrew with his wife’s condition, Andrew forgot his own affairs. He went inside his house for his bag and immediately left for the driller’s place. Since his services were not immediately needed by the expecting mother, he decided to wait downstairs. He re-examined her after an hour. It was at 3:30 am when the nurse summoned him. He struggled for an hour before the child was born. Then he worked feverishly to revive the weak mother and the stillborn child. He had to use all his knowledge and experience in discharging his duty. He did not pay attention to his own physical tiredness or mental tension. Duty came first and he responded to it with single-minded devotion.

• Dr. Andrew saved Susan Morgan after her difficult delivery but her child was still born. The doctor didn’t give up on the child also. He realized that the child was suffocated due to lack of oxygen and excess of carbon - dioxide in the blood. The child was well - formed but was having a pale skin and weak pulse.
• He asked the mid - wife to get him hot and cold water in different basins. Even though the mid - wife was looking at him in anxiety and whispering that the child was still - born, he didn’t listen to her but started placing the child in bearable cold and then hot water.
• Then he rubbed the child’s chest with a rough towel trying to get breath into his limp body. The child breathed and Andrew was so happy that it made him faint. The skin of the child was now turning pink and the baby was crying. He then walked down the street thanking God and feeling pleased and satisfied that he had done something real at last.

• The old lady in the delivery room was Susan Morgan’s mother. She was a tall, grey – haired woman who was nearly seventy years old. She was wise with experience. She realized that there must be a period of waiting before the delivery. She was afraid that the doctor might leave the case saying he would return later.
• So she asked the doctor if he would have some tea. The doctor understood her anxiety and fears and assured her that he would be there till the delivery was done. When the mother and child were saved she was standing against the wall praying her thanks silently.

• The old lady in the delivery room was Susan Morgan’s mother. She was a tall, grey – haired woman who was nearly seventy years old. She was wise with experience. She realized that there must be a period of waiting before the delivery. She was afraid that the doctor might leave the case saying he would return later.
• So she asked the doctor if he would have some tea. The doctor understood her anxiety and fears and assured her that he would be there till the delivery was done. When the mother and child were saved she was standing against the wall praying her thanks silently.

• The old lady in the delivery room was Susan Morgan’s mother. She was a tall, grey – haired woman who was nearly seventy years old. She was wise with experience. She realized that there must be a period of waiting before the delivery. She was afraid that the doctor might leave the case saying he would return later.
• So she asked the doctor if he would have some tea. The doctor understood her anxiety and fears and assured her that he would be there till the delivery was done. When the mother and child were saved she was standing against the wall praying her thanks silently.

• Joe Morgan a miner had come to take Dr. Andrew to his house as his wife Susan Morgan was having labour pains and she was going to deliver a baby after twenty years. Dr. Andrew went with him though it was nearly midnight but found that he would have to wait.
• After a long, harsh struggle the baby was born in the early morning but unfortunately it was still - born. Looking at the still form a shiver of horror passed over the young doctor. He thought of all the promises that he had made to Joe Morgan and Susan‘s mother. They had expected him to bring them joy and he was not able to deliver it.

• Andrew examined the patient and could understand that it would take some time for the delivery to take place. He took a break. In this period Andrew's mind started wandering and there were many conflicting thoughts.
• He started thinking about Barnwell who was foolishly devoted to a woman who deceived him meanly. Then he thought of Edward page that was married to the ill - natured Blowden of Denny, and was now living unhappily, apart from his wife.
• Andrew thought all marriages were a dismal failure. He wanted to have a happy marriage with his girlfriend, Christine but he was having conflicting thoughts whether he should get married or not. Suddenly Susan Morgan’s old mother spoke to him and he was startled and brought back to the present from his thoughts.

• Dr. Andrew had a hard time saving Susan Morgan and also her still - born child. The labour was difficult. He had to put in all is effort and education in both. He was tired and there was anxiety written all over his face.
• However, on seeing both Susan and the baby boy progressing he left the house and was able to tell the worried Joe Morgan that all was well with his wife and new born son. For himself, Dr. Andrew felt happy that he had done something real as a doctor.

• In the delivery room at Joe Morgan’s house, Dr. Andrew had taken up a hurricane task to save the mother and to revive the still - born child. He had asked for basins of hot and cold water. The room was in a mess full of soiled Newspapers and wet towels.
• The floor was a draggled mess. The hypodermic Syringe was stuck in the linoleum on the floor, the ewer was knocked over and the kettle was on its side in the water. On the huddled bed, the mother was lying unconscious. Andrew didn’t even wait to take his bag but left the place satisfied but tired.

• There was a mid - wife present to help Susan Morgan deliver her baby. After a long harsh struggle Susan Morgan gave birth to a still - born son. The mid - wife immediately put the child’s body beneath the bed amongst some sodden newspapers.
• When the young Dr. Andrew asked for the child and started reviving it she was doubtful about the young doctor's abilities and kept on staring at him with anxiety as he tried every effort to make the suffocated child breathe. She was shocked and sobbed hysterically when the child showed signs of life and felt that the young doctor had indeed done a miracle.

• Joe Morgan a miner had come to request Dr. Andrew to come to his home to help his wife deliver her baby. He went with the miner. It was a tough delivery. Susan Morgan was in a delicate state and when her baby boy was delivered he was still born.
• The young doctor did his best to save the mother first and then he worked at reviving the child. The mid-wife and Susan Morgan’s aged mother were taken aback as he gave a fresh lease of life to the child and the mother. This was a great achievement which would shape his future.

• Joe Morgan was a miner who worked as a driller. His wife was in labour pain. She required medical attention during the delivery. She was going to deliver her first baby almost twenty years after marriage.
• Though it was past midnight, Joe Morgan was waiting for Dr. Andrew outside his house to take him home to help his wife deliver the baby.

• Dr. Andrew was a young medical graduate who had just passed from medical school. He was working as an assistant to Dr. Edward in the small Welsh mining town of Blaenelly.
• He was having a personal problem and he had a very disappointing evening with his girl- friend, Christine. This didn't stop him from going with the miner Joe Morgan to his house to help his wife deliver her baby though it was nearly midnight. He was a professional for whom duty was much above personal problems.