Filmy touch
You must have come across this quite a few times. A patient (often unconscious, comatose or spilling blood everywhere) is rushed into an operating theatre with hue and cry. The swinging doors swiftly bang shut in front of the anxious, hyperventilating patient’s relatives(usually a wailing mother/sister). The head nurse chases them away to a bench outside the OT. A doctor (apparently the physician cum surgeon) breezes through the corridor and into the OT, totally ignoring the wailing relatives. The red bulb over the OT door blazes on(if you are still wondering what this means- it means the surgery has begun!) A few minutes later, the nurse comes out.(don’t ask why). She walks in and out of the OT a million times, totally ignoring the wailing patient party, who desperately want to know what’s happening inside. On certain occasions, the doctor diagnoses a woman (usually unwed) to be pregnant by feeling her pulse or listening to her heart sounds. I wonder from where movie directors got th...