One day just as a man walked out of my office, a general practitioner walked in,coming to consult me for her daughter's issues. She noted the man who had just walked out, and asked me in a hushed tone as to how I was connected to that man. Making an exception to the professional confidentiality clause, I told her that he was the son of one of my patients. She sighed and narrated an experience she had with this man, a young autorickshaw driver. A few months prior to this visit of hers to my office, that young man, she said, had started dropping by in her clinic every few days complaining of a marriage not consummated. Maintaining her professional courtesy this colleague had heard the man the first time but had firmly asked that he bring along his wife thereafter. Seeing that he had not followed her instructions she was forced to be rude to him and warned him of the possibility of reporting him to the police for indecent behaviour. At this point I told this colleague that as far as I knew of that man, he was unmarried. I could see disgust on her face for that man as she left my office.
