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She won't be able to help anyway

This is your grief Tara.

Yours alone.

Yeah.

I guess so

Nobody else gives a sh*t...

I\lo

I give a

'Shif!

Shiv, you said 'Shif!

It sounds funny

coming from your mouth.

- Does it sound funny?

- Yeah

So,

should I say stool?

Stoooooool?

Dude, hovv are you

so Zen about all this?

I'm at a different stage

of grief from you, that's all...

There are stages to this sh*t?

Yes.

First stage is Denial...

Denial...

It can't be happening to me.

These things happen to other people...

Second stage is Anger...

Why did this happen to me.

Why me? Why him?

You hate everyone because

they are not where you are...

Then comes bargaining.

Give and take...

If you happen to believe in God...

...then you will try everything

to please him...

you'll bribe him...

And if you are an atheist...

Then suddenly you will

become very spiritual...

All your life,

you were this completely

pragmatic person...

...who may not have

spared even a rupee...

...to the homeless guy

at the traffic signal...

But now suddenly you transform

into a philanthropist...

...and feed a whole file of beggars

thronging outside a religious place...

Then comes depression...

A dark abyss...

An endless night...

That is your stage.

It's a very dangerous place...

But then finally, comes acceptance!

You are finally able to

cope up with your situation...

And at this stage you

find yourself with two choices...

One choice is to persuade yourself...

That everything is

going to be alright...

Or give up hope, like a coward...

That choice is yours!

But you must be

purposeful while you wait

Then you become 'Zen',

like me!

So tell me please hovv

do I get to this...

net stage?

First of all, call housekeeping!

This is Mrs. Deshpande...

A cup of Panickefis coffee everyday,

keeps the doctor away...

Hi Baby!

Did you see Sudhakafis case?

- Yes sir.

And what do you think?

Subarachnoid?

Why do you think it's a subarachnoid?

It's blood, with surrounding oedema...

Very good,

but why so apologetic Doctor?

Because, it is very bad news sir...

It is very bad news.

But it's not your fault...

Okay let me teach

you hovv to give bad news...

Watch me and try and copy?

First, you must look

serious but hopeful...

...then raise your

eyebrows a little...

and chin down...

More down...

Not so much...

it looks like you are

set for a boing match...

Look at me...

We are still waiting

for the final reports...

And we'll know more

in forty eight hours...

...but...

...the latest

research confirms that...

...the moon is made of

some kind of dairy product...

Possibly cheese!

Very nice sir...

And then you take them with you...

just hold their elbow like this...

Just for a count of two.

That's it.

And they are with you...

Dr. Ravi there's no

room for doubt here

Remember,

what are we trying to do here?

We are trying to save lives.

Right?

And if a little bit of faking

will make you do yourjob better...

Just do it!

The latest report confirms that...

...the moon is made of some kind

of diary product.

...possibly cheese...

Why are you dragging me here Dude?

I'm a proud Atheist...

Faith is a great coping

device Tara.

Try it!

Don't vvorry.

You are not swapping sides!

Happy? - Yes, very good...

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo...

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo...

Hovv could it just disappear?

That shop used to be right here...

some... ten - fifteen years back...

Can't we just go to a shopping mall?

No, I hate those bloody things...

They represent everything

that's wrong with us!

Everything? - Everything!

It's okay Shiv.

You are not swapping sides either!

Shopping is also

a great coping device...

Is it?

Yeah! Try it!

Prema, I'd like

to see Rajafs charts...

I'd like to see his vitals...

Shiv, hovv come you never had kids...

Just never happened.

First, there was a bit of a medical

complication.

But we were so content...

Never really felt the need.

Forty years just passed...

- For'ry years?

-For'ry years!

F***!

You mean, hovv wonderful! - Yeah...

You know people keep telling me,

'It's okay, she had a good life'...

...as if it's okay to die

if one had a good life...

So if she had a rotten life,

she should have had

a longer life or what?

People are sh*t!

I hate peopleg

I hate people too...

Good Morning Ann.

Happy Birthday...

Thank You Uncle...

Good Morning Professor!

Good morning...

Even I'd like flowers sometime,

you know...

Professor we need to talk...

I... I can't talk right now.

I have to get back home.

There is a problem with

my bathroom...

the drain has...

It's high time...

No...

I\lo

You are not being realistic

- I am being realistic

Everyday I hear of a new case

Where the patient has

suddenly recovered from coma...

...after the doctors

had given up all hope

It's fiction, Professor.

Stuff they write in magazines!

No. It's in medical journals!

I was just reading about

this woman in New Hampshire...

She was in coma for two years and

then one fine day she just woke up...

...like she got up

after a night's sleep

In Australia,

there was this Scuba diver...

Your wife has been on a steady decline

for eight months now...

She has no quality of life...

You have to ask yourself

what would she want?

She would want to get better

But she is not - She will!

She will.

You know that's not true...

Every month you are

spending millions of rupees...

At this rate you will go bankrupt!

Is that what she would have wanted?

I don't know actually... we had never

discussed it you know... she and I...

Do you discuss this with

your wife every evening...

Darling, hovv long would

you like to be on life support

in case you slip into a coma?

Please give it to me in

writing,

so I would know what to do...

She is just another

patient for you Nirupam...

I know that,

she is just another hospital bed...

But I don't think you

realise what she is for me...

So I will decide what she wants!

She wants to get better

and if you don't want to help me...

I will go to the hospital board,

and I will find somebody who can!

Professor?

You know you are not

doing this for her

You think you are, but you are not...

You are not afraid of her death...

Actually what you are afraid

of is that after her death...

Your life will have to change

You have to think of her Professor.

Shiv!

So, we have some good news...

What?

We repeated your husband's

scans this morning...

And, the swelling

has started to reduce

Oh wow!

So does that mean,

he is going to like open his eyes...

...gain consciousness and stuff?

No, it's not that simple...

As you can see here,

the brain is less tight now

See... and the midline

shift is also reduced...

But still there is a sizeable

haematoma here in the temporal lobe...

It's a blood clot,

the size of a golf ball...

Meaning?

We need to evacuate this clot

so that the brain can continue to heal

We need to operate.

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