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Medicon o9!

A blue pen, a red bag, a gold momento .. all would hint toward my dad's return from another one of those 'conferences' .. Never really got what the fuss about all these meetings was.. So a bunch of docs come together, talk a lot, eat, everyone gets a token to remember the meeting and you come back home? That's what I figured what conferences were till 24 th of last month. 20 th June 2009.. a group of twelve  MB BS students from our college left for Mangalore . So finally I was going to get to see what a conference actually was. The organisers picked us up, accommodated us in their great hostels, and after a day of pre-conference workshops (which sucked by the way), the main event began. I was there for an oral presentation on a research project that I was doing this year. The rest of my team also had such presentations . Students from many countries were here. India, China, Russia, Romania, Iran(!).. It was exciting to see so many students were int