The Medical Rep

Friday, 13th January 2012.

A representative of a health institute was addressing the group of people which had collected in the temporary awareness encampment. The representative was holding the arc of their crowd focused on the centre of attention, even as he was dwelling on various aspects of human health leashing the onlooker’s attention to every word of the scientific magician. A group of young, and old, kids and adolescents had gathered around. The medical representative chose, from the gathered crowd, men who looked between the ages of 24-30. He put several of the chosen ones, after each other, on a futuristic digital machine that looked no more functional in appearance than a weighing machine.

The representative’s colleagues then immediately jotted down, onto a form of a sheet, apparently incomprehensible statistics as beamed by the LCD screen on the unfamiliar contraption. His colleagues went even to the extent of being careful enough to notify the curious men under immediate study, that such statistics will be senseless to them, though they will adequately explain them out to each one later in the session.

Meanwhile, the representative narrated modern health science’s researches and statistics with very obvious but unstated intentions, selling well-researched, analytic and reasonable voodoo, that would appeal to the logical indoctrination of men around, as guided by the equations of something as basic as survival.

He fished out a reputed allopathic manufacturer’s capsule. He split it open and brought out the capsule’s inner content onto his palm. He then brought out a concentrated pill made from extracts obtained from “paalak” and placed it next to the spilled contents of the reputed allopathic manufacturer’s capsule. He asked the crowd, “Both contain iron. This allopathic capsule is recommended by the doctor when a person reports iron deficiency. While this natural pill obtained from “paalak”  also contains iron since green leafy vegetables are known to contain them. Now, I shall move a magnet over both of them and you tell which form of iron is good?”

The medical representative charmingly moved his hand holding the magnet over his other hand’s palm containing the capsule contents and the “paalak pill” in a quick practiced and oft-rehearsed motion. He appeared like an enticing magician about to reveal a great trick, unimagined by the crowd, unexpected by those gathered, unforeseeable by those collected. In a split second of motion, that could as well have let sheets fall down, or flames erupt up, or the floor fall down to herald the “prestige” of the magic trick, the representative’s hand holding the magnet passed over the “paalak”  pill and the capsule contents.

The gathering unanimously had its mouths agape, astonished with horror and surprised at the result of the scientific trick. The contents of the reputed allopathic manufacturer’s capsule had escaped gravitational forces and flew away from the magician’s palm like wisps of smoke in a span of a hundredth of a second; slow enough only for a nano-clock, to rise above and attach to the magnet piece which just passed them over. The magnet sucked the “iron” pellets in the capsule upwards like the clichéd spaceship lifting humans and cattle in a triangular beam of light. The magnet’s interaction with the “paalak” pill had not been as dramatic with the latter registering an interest of dopamine deficient individual.

“Woaah,” The crowd had expressed its surprise collectively. “This is because this capsule contains elemental iron which gets attracted to magnet easily. Mineral iron is what your body needs. This “paalak” pill here contains mineral iron and thats why this piece of magnet could not attract it towards itself.” The representative sounded out a well educating explanation. The crowd was visibly pleased at this and some were convinced in the products on offer by the peddler of scientific logicality. They placed their faith in their observation of what was just executed to perfection afore them.

A Perfect logic. The Age of the Scientific Reason. The Peak of mankind.

Image from here.