 Let me promise you something authorized. I can promise you a switch of these two lights. It's going to be much more interesting So with your permission, let me switch of these two lights And one more thing So it's supposed to be on, yes Okay, okay, good afternoon once more So I can well imagine what you're feeling right now You've been through hell You're experiencing the relief of the survivors of Normandy, so right now you're feeling like this boy here And pretty soon tonight, I'm sure all of you will be Santa Claus The experience of a medical education is transformational. It is like moving to a new country At first, he wrote the language, all the customs, all the concepts But then almost imperceptibly, it all changes How the words you routinely use now, you didn't even know existed Words like Frenico plural ligament Flexor carpoidinealis longus H&D coeridactase And if bone acting Spinal cerebellar tract Status epilepticus Logistic regression, liquefactive necrosis, atherosclerosis, and red match syndrome. I can go on the whole night In the beginning, they all sounded like this Perhaps even now it sounds like this And when we gave you the clock exams, they were very much like this You didn't understand a single word of what was I said And I don't blame you at all if you felt like begging During your 72 weeks of clinical rotation You'll be exposed to clinical scenarios as outlined in this You will know that the ICD system, the International Classification of Diseases, has categorized more than 13,600 diagnoses 13,600 and for each one we have remedies that include more than 6,000 drugs and 4,000 medical and surgical procedures Again, I will not blame you if you feel like the ground is slipping from under your feet So That reminds me of my days as a medical student I was in first year, all greenhorn and went behind the ears and just as eager as you to become a big doctor preferably today itself There was this deadly anatomy professor By the way, why are anatomy professors so deadly? I still have to figure that out So this was this deadly professor here He was a fellow from Guy's Hospital London, the same hospital where Henry Gray wrote his Bible The Gray's Anatomy His was the only lecture when I did not actually sleep Because I did try to catch up on my REM sleep with just about all of the lectures Not just because we were scared of him, of course we were scared of him It was the quality of these lectures I used to listen to him with raptor tension No notes And when I came out of the lecture hall, it was all there in my head And I didn't have to read it again Now the same professor He never smiled Rarely, if at all, and he spoke very little except during lectures And come exam time His Vaibhavosi used to be one holy nightmare He used to have this anatomy specimen in his hand and he'll have this probe in his other hand He'll pick up a structure from the inside And he won't even ask a question, he'll just do like that Meaning, what is it? And you have to start talking And you have to keep speaking, keep speaking till he does not drop that structure and pick up another one And that's how this nightmare is to continue in this dissection hall For the next 45 minutes Well, after I had passed out of anatomy One day I met this professor I mean, I just saw him And for some reason he was smiling at something And I said to myself This guy is human after all Well, I learned a lot from him And not just anatomy itself May his soul rest in peace So carry on message I want to give you here is Leave the world a tad better Than what it was when you reached there You will not be here forever But your legacy will live on You're all very lucky people Though you don't realize it You're graduates of anyway When you were treated like babies When you were burning the midnight oil Or letting time slip by Or taking your caffeine boosts Or any other boosts for that matter There was always a comforting hand to hold on to Or shoulder to pry on When nothing else worked You tweeted Or you hit Facebook You wrote Three more days and I'm off this rock Or you wrote Mirka, here I come, yay Or you hijacked somebody's wall And you inserted What we should call care in medical school And you got life You got 57 lives You got many, many, many lives