D O C T O R  S A H A B
PHOTO STORY BY SAURABH GUPTA
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DOCTOR SAHAB is my personal photo story that I shot on my brother. This is my first ever photo story. My core area lies in Fashion, Lifestyle and Portraitures but I always had this urge and undying inclination to shoot something related to Photojournalism.

Photo journalism is not just shooting an incident or calamity but its way beyond. Shooting a documentary video is sometimes considered as easy job, as it is motion, it tells story, it may have dialogues, but to tell all the story in just one frame is an art, and I always wanted to be an artist.

Why DOCTOR SAHAB?

In India, we always add Sahab ( boss or superior) a suffix with the word Doctor. They save lives, we all respect them, so I thought what could have been a better title than this.

ABOUT DOCTOR

This photo story is based on the real life of Dr. Suyash Gupta, based in city of Lakes, Bhopal (M.P, India). After 6 years of doing his MBBS at a prestigious institute in Mumbai, he's in his 3rd year of MD Medicine training at J.K Hospital, Bhopal and aspires to go for another 3 years of intense training after giving an equally strenuous national competitive test to see his dream of being an endocrinologist become a reality. He uses music and poetry to soothe his senses after 36 hours of work and has friends suffering from the same frustrations as his, that keep him sane.

He has been constantly inspired by watching his father, Dr. Shachin Gupta, a renowned consultant diabetologist, at Bhopal, treating and communicating with patients from a tender age. His father's words and teachings shape the humane side of him that helps him feel empathetic towards a patient.
 
"Knowledge increases by sharing, and not by saving.”
Dr. Suyash, presenting a lecture to seniors to help them revise their basics
and to let them grill you on your understanding.
Discussions with colleagues about a patient's disease.
“What more can be done?"
The only time he slowly walk towards the emergency is:
when the patient is already gone and he is just going to fill the paperwork.
All sorts of emotions and questions and hopes, rather the loss of hope,
that a patient feels before going to see a doctor.
A quick confirmation with the help of machines to rule out a grave disease.
Let's go for a tea break!  "Tell me more about that patient I saw earlier"
says the doctor to his junior.
Having just one chapati, as it's gonna be difficult finding a dedicated time to exercise,
he tries very hard to stay fit. Residents doctors who live in the hostel have their own canteen,
kindof relief they get good quality food. 
"Once the stethoscope's earpiece dripped down into the plate from which I was eating
and got soiled from the dal. I couldn't clean it completely and later got an ear infection.
But habits die hard and mostly I forget to take my stethoscope off" he says.
I’ll be honest, they get only few mins to have lunch!. No time to sit and savour the food, this is his normal lunch routine.
To treat a patient, it's important to understand the disease.
believe me he has books so heavy that I can use it as Dumbells.  
He is not only a doctor but a Musician as well,
in his spare time, which eventually last for few minutes,
he tries to bring some peace, some sunshine, some soothing music.
Like every private company, his hospital as also adopted technology,
doctors can't be late for the biometric attendance or their day's hard earned money will vanish!
A walk of pain after declaring a patient dead
No mirror in the duty room? A dirty glass works just fine! Who has time to see things clearly anyway?
Examining a patient for any abnormal movements in the hand which would help localize the disease.
"The look of hope".
Patients often ask "main theek to ho jaunga na".
Many a times it's a fake reassurance.
This patient here was admitted because of lung infection due to smoking of Beedi (tobacco) 

Documentation is of prime importance.
Doctors don't dare miss writing any tablet or injection which they have given,
in case some authority later asks them about their management of the patient's condition.
“Poetry can be a mean to release the frustrations of life.”
The hands that prescribe the medicines to patients,
also writes poetry.
Time for managing patients in the wards.
Taking rounds in the O.P.D (Out Patients Department)
OPD is the first point of contact between Patients and Hospital/medical staff. 
End of life counseling room.
A room to help contain the cries of the dead patient's relatives. "but what about the echoes?"
It was during the night duty hour when I saw this man, with a smile on his sweatshirt, just look what a contrast
he is creating. It says Smile but he is taking oxygen cylinder to some patient in need of it. 
How can one smile after going through all this frustration and sadness and being the bearer of bad news?
"It takes time to become emotionless, but it's a necessity in their profession"
During the very initial stage of Omicron, there were less cases of Emergencies.
People themselves were avoiding to go to hospitals unless very critical.
In the hostel room, he is trying to figure out if this sweater is wearable.
If it doesn't smell it's probably wearable.
People make Farmhouses and call it their Second Home,
in his life, the hostel room is his second home.
His duty and profession doesn’t allow him to go to home too often.
"After all the work, after all my duty hours, when I come home, I sit down, try to not think what I experience each day in Hospital, I Look for some inspiration to play a song. Something happy?"
He said to me
POETRY WRITTEN BY DR. SUYASH GUPTA
DOCTOR SAHAB
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