Friday 19 December 2014

Detectives

Elementary My Dear Watson...
It has become a proverbial exclaimation and Sherloking has been adopted by English Dictionary as English word which means detection.This is the impact of fictitious character of Sherlock Holmes created by Sir Arthur canon Doyle in detective stories and novels.
The characterisation of Sherlock Holmes is so strong that he appears to be a living character and fan mail is still received at his address Baker street London which is properly being replied therefrom.
It is believed that facts are stranger than fiction and therefore, it would not have been possible to create such a strong character without keeping in mind some real character.
Yes it was Dr.Budd a colleague of Sir Arthur Canon Doyle, who was a practising physician, when the later started his career in the medical profession. Dr. Budd was born with remarkable faculties. His power of observation and skill of diagnosis was superb.He started his career as a poor man, amassed great wealth and property by his professional skills and later on died as pauper.He was genious with a streak of eccentricity as it is normally said that there is a thin line between genious and eccentricity. There was always big rush of patients at his clinic. His patients would like to wait for hours at his clinic to have just one meeting with him. He would normaly come late and was seen yelling and hiting the patients with his umbrella and thus making his way to consulting room.
Once a women was just entering his consultation room,Dr Budd yelled at her..
Madame you are suffering from this disease ...you should take this medicine and if it will not help you then you should swallow the cork of bottle of medicine and go to hell.
Once a friend asked Dr Budd , "what is the secret of your success sir" Dr Budd replied that the secret of my success is...
Never make fatal mistake of being polite to patients and never let your patient know that you want them.
In those days medical technology was not so advanced.Pathological tests and scanning was not available.Doctors job was very difficult.They had mostly to rely on symptoms of patients to diagnose the disease.The doctors had to develop such faculties which could help them to diagnose the disease.The doctors profession was more professional than commercial and professional ethics was in vouge to large extent.
Sir Arthur Canon Doyle modified and refined this live character of Dr.Budd and applied his faculties and intuitions in field of detection and formed the famous character of Sherlok Holmes.

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