A small, cinematic wish — made for Dr. Preethi Kannan
MBBS graduate, PG in progress, and the kind of doctor whose patients remember her name long after the appointment ends.
யாதனின் யாதனின் நீங்கியான் நோதல்
அதனின் அதனின் இலன்.
Yaadhanin Yaadhanin Neengiyaan Nodhal, Adhanin Adhanin Ilan.
Whatever you free yourself from can no longer be the source of your suffering.
Maybe that's why she's so steady in a ward where certainty is rare. She has learned to care deeply, yet gently let go of what no hands can hold.
And four more, from the chapter Thiruvalluvar wrote nearly two thousand years ago, titled simply மருந்து — Medicine. Tap or hover each card to turn it over.
மிகினும் குறையினும் நோய்செய்யும் நூலோர்
வளிமுதலா எண்ணிய மூன்று.
Mikinum Kuraiyinum Noi Seyyum Noolor Valimudhalaa Enniya Moondru.
Whatever the physicians name, in excess or in deficiency — each of the three brings on disease. Balance, not extremes, is the real medicine.
மருந்தென வேண்டாவாம் யாக்கைக்கு
அருந்தியது அற்றது போற்றி உணின்.
Marundhena Vendaavaam Yaakkaikku Arundhiyadhu Atradhu Potri Unin.
The body needs no medicine at all, for one who eats only after the last meal is truly digested. Discipline, quietly, is the first prescription.
நோய்நாடி நோய்முதல் நாடி அதுதணிக்கும்
வாய்நாடி வாய்ப்பச் செயல்.
Noi Naadi Noi Mudhal Naadi Adhu Thanikkum Vaai Naadi Vaaippa Seyal.
Diagnose the disease. Trace it to its root. Find the way to ease it. Then act — precisely. Two thousand years old, and still exactly how good doctors think.
உற்றவன் தீர்ப்பான் மருந்துழைச் செல்வானென்று
அப்பால் நாற்கூற்றே மருந்து.
Utravan Theerppaan Marundhuzhaich Chelvaanendru Appaal Naarkootrae Marundhu.
Medicine, says Valluvar, rests on four pillars: the patient, the physician, the remedy, and the one who stays close and helps. She's chosen to be the second, for people who need all four.
Spin for a completely unbiased, medically unapproved compliment about Dr. Preethi.
Doctor's Day was never really about a degree.
It's about every early morning you chose to show up anyway, and every patient who left a little less afraid because you were the one in the room.
It's about the nights of studying nobody saw — except in the calm way you carry a ward now.
You're becoming the kind of doctor people trust with their fear. That is rare, and it is entirely earned.
So today, before the wards call you back — happy Doctor's Day.
Here's to the PG chapter you're deep in, and the specialist you're already quietly becoming.
With warm wishes,
Naveen KumarFrom Naveen, with more admiration than this page can hold.