Journey of Dentist to Australia: Part 2

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With the passage of time, Ganesh became aware of the situation of his family. He started to understand the pain of his wife and the thought process of his father. He, who always cared for him, was worried about his future; the future ahead of his family life as well as financials, as it has to have a long-lasting effect on his Son too. 

Both Ganesh and his wife dropped the idea of ADC as it was clear, no matter how hard they try it, it was not meant for them. Moreover, they were out of funds, rather, better word was, in negative funds. So, to regain their lost finances, they modified their plan.  

The plan was to try for a gulf job and regain the lost finance. They consulted with their friend who had experience of the gulf job. Ganesh and his wife got a decent job in Saudi Arabia. It was a job in a remote area of the Kingdom, but since they had their own circumstances, they adjusted themselves in a few months. 

In this world there is no end to issues, no matter where a person lives. This soon started being applied to them too. A recently came new dentist in their workplace had Arab origin and the staff started giving him preferential treatment. The distribution of work started skewing, putting Ganesh in a difficult situation. His wife was cool as being a female, she was spared, or the person involved had no guts to disturb her and be caught in a situation that might have backfired. 

Ganesh contacted his friend for solace. He understood his situation and the options available. He decided, as long as I am getting my salary, I have to stay here and refill my coffer. There was no second choice. 

His wife and he stayed for five years in Saudi Arabia and then started thinking of coming back to India. They have earned sufficient, filled their coffer and most importantly regained lost self-esteem and self-worth. Their family life has again come back on a smooth track. 

Before coming back to India, Ganesh refurbished his old clinic when he had visited India last time. It was ready to start the work. Ganesh started working in his own clinical practice the next day of arrival to India. His wife got her old tutoring job back in the same college she was teaching in. Within a year, they decided to open a second clinic. Soon it was booming by the hard-working ethics of his wife, who decided to go take the clinical practice as full-time work. 

The couple decided to buy a house near their old home and were happy ever after. Ganesh remained obliged to his friends who supported him during his bad time. 

 

Journey of a Dentist for ADC Exam Part 1

Introduction 

This story of a dentist talks about the journey of a dentist for ADC exam and the mental, physical and economic sufferings that the whole family went through after his failure. 

Ganesh was a general dental practitioner with a nice practice in a class two city. Isha was a tutor in a Dental college in the same city. The couple had been living a happily married life with their 5 years old son and their parents in a joint family.

Traveling towards Dream 

 

Adelaide South Australia

As every couple in India has its own dream, they also had one. They wanted to settle abroad with decent earnings and a bit of respect among their relatives. They decided to try their luck and settle in Australia. So, the plan decided between them was, Isha will be working as usual along with taking care of the home while Ganesh will study hard to pass ADC licentiate examination. Once Ganesh will get a registration as a GP and a job in Australia, Isha will also qualify the ADC exam and will start working there.   

The plan seemed very natural. 

 The Preparations for ADC Exam 

Ganesh started preparing though an Online Course, worked very hard and sat in the part 1 examination in 2008 in New Delhi center for his second attempt. The result of the preliminary examination was positive, and the couple was elated for the first time in the last three years. They even started to plan further as to how and where they would prefer to settle in Australia.  

Ganesh left for Australia for part 2 practical examination. The examination center was in Adelaide in Royal Adelaide Hospital. The part 2 examination was spanned in two weeks. Ganesh took the joy giving the exam in daytime and enjoyed the evening in the Rundle Mall area and along the northern terrace with his friends as he was confident about his exam result.       

The post examination week was full of adventures as he went for a tour in the outback and tasted the great wine in the wineries of Barossa valley. What he didn’t assess was the economics of the trip.  

All the time, effort and money were wasted as the result showed a “Fail” with few remarks after a few weeks back in India.  

The pair got a huge shock. The parents came forward to console and again, Ganesh decided to take a second chance. He was determined to pass it on the second attempt. Father was ready to spend all his life savings for the great future of his Son.  

 The Courage 

After one year, in the Westmead Hospital, Sydney, the second take of the part 2 practical exam of ADC went well. Although, he was doubtful about his performance at a few moments of the exam, but confident that the examiners would be considerate about his overall performance.  

Westmead Hospital Sydney*
He enjoyed his second trip as much as the previous trip a lot and saw the eastern coast extensively, collected a lot of sweet memories with his friends and even decided as to where he will settle in Sydney. He liked the eastern coast a lot.  

Back to India, his wife and he started thinking of preparing to pack up. His parents were also highly optimistic about their future and happy even though their lifetime savings had been drained out.    

They were full of confidence about refilling the coffer within a year of working in Australia. 

The waiting period ended, and the long-awaited letter came. His heart missed a beat looking at the weight and thickness of the envelope. The words of his friends started swirling around in his head, ‘thick envelope means more papers-that again means papers having a lot of suggestions about the future course of action. 

The Apocalypse 

The world around him started revolving, Ganesh felt dizziness for a while and lost his senses. 

He and his whole family lost all hope of the life they had been dreaming of just. 

Financially, they were broken. Neither was their courage nor finance to try out one more attempt.  

The coming years were much stressful. He did not realize the moment when he became a chronic alcoholic. The strain between the couple remained for years. The marriage was at the stalk. Chronic depression settled in the whole family. His planned journey for settling in Australia resulted in apocalypse. 

There always remained the guilt of losing so many years of life, lost family time, hard earned lifetime savings of father and permanent loss of hope for a life the pair dreamt of.     

Years afterwards, he used to think, had I taken the help I was constantly offered from so many experienced successful dentists, life would have been happily going on a different path.    

This story will continue. I shall write the second part of the story-Painful Journey of a Dentist for ADC Exam after a while.  

Read part 2 of the story HERE.

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