Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow: (Q.No.1 to 5)

People came to him when the patient was on his last legs. Dr. Raman often burst out, ‘Why couldn’t you have come a day earlier?’ The reason was obvious—visiting fee of twenty-five rupees, and more than that, people liked to shirk the fact that the time had come to call in Dr. Raman; for them, there was something ominous in the very association. Long years of practice of this kind had bred in the doctor a certain curt truthfulness he was not a mere doctor expressing an opinion but a judge pronouncing a verdict. The patient’s life hung on his words. He never believed that agreeable words ever saved lives. He did not think it was any of his business to provide comforting lies when as a matter of course nature would tell them the truth in a few hours. However, when he glimpsed the faintest sign of hope it might be hours or days, but he never withdrew till he wrested the prize from Yama’s hands.