Crow's Nest...

SK tomorrow. the game is on and time is running short. The battle will be fought tomorrow and i havent made any preperations. Tomorrow it will be me against SK in the first battle for saving sself respect and dignity. Not that i believe medical students should think that they have any dignity or self respect because they dont. And when the consultant is as toxic as SK they really don't have a chance to save your *ss. Got to go!

As we were very conveniently discussing in my room, the other night, there are two prerequisites for promotion of education in Pakistan. 1)More opportunities to impart higher education should be created. 2)Pakistan should be made a safe place to live. We can think of converting our educational scenario which will then attract potential students from abroad. Pakistan has a chance to commercialize its education industry in similar fashion to USA. Our potential customers being the Arab and the African countries. If that is effectively done Pakistan will command fare advantage in most underdeveloped parts of the world. This advantage can then be used to further our cause of existence. Pakistan can then truly emerge as the leader of the third world countries.    This thought is even more practical after the 9/11 incident. Doors of education for students from the third world are closing in the West. We can make use of this opportunity now.    We still have...

Grand Round.    Lately I have been seeing a drastic change in the grand round culture of the university. Earlier when the giants of surgery were here the grand rounds were a completely different phenomenon. They were tools for discussing all the out of ordinary or non-routine cases followed in the previous week. After brief patient presentations there were discussions over the treatment modalities and the management plans of such patients. Senior doctors used to grill their juniors for different management options and their approach towards such patients. In this way residents and students learned in a manner such that their basic drills were revised and new techniques and avenues of thought added.    Now its a completely different story in the grand rounds. The conducting doctors are not at all as good as those before them. Neither do they realize the true purpose of the grand rounds in surgery. They only use them to show off their powers and perso...

Dust Devil.    When I was still in school I happened to dare stand in the center of one that was pretty strong and frightened the rest of the pack. It almost unbalanced me from my feet. But the singular moment of being in the centre of whirlwind was rewarding enough to make me forget the pain of nausea and headache that I suffered after the dare. For a moment you almost feel as if you have no weight as if you are alighted and all. But then after the moment is over the trouble begins.    Our lives are like standing in the center of a whirlwind. On the cosmic time scale life is just a moment of joy and then, all is over. The nausea and headache start after the flight is over. On a yet smaller scale we are all on whirlwinds of our own and don't think of the ensuing consequences of our actions. It is after the brain wave is over that we realize what has passed and what we have missed.    I don't want to be in the center of a dust devil ag...

Allah is all merciful and beneficent. He gives to man what he aspires for and never keeps a record of whatever he bestows. Man can never thank Him for all his mercies. Truly those men are His best servants who spend the joyous moments of their life remembering Him. Thus I say all praise be to Allah Who is the creator and the sustainer of the universe and everything beyond it.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal the art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are the corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty. There is no such thing as moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of caliban not seeing his own face in a glass. The moral life of a man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an impe...

Medicine can be mischievous sometimes. There was this patient of mine who happened to present with long standing complaints of bleeding during micturation and high grade fever. He was initially admitted under the medicine team and as relentless as they are they got investigations on him worth fifty thousand rupees and still could reach no conclusive diagnosis. Thus the patient was handed over to the urology team. There he was re-evaluated and was advised further exploration under anesthesia. The plan was to get some tissue from his bladder and see if he had anything sinister. For this procedure protocol demands that he be seen by anesthesia team and declared fit for anesthesia. They got his X-ray chest and incidentally found out that the gentleman had dilatation of his aorta. Things got worse and a vascular surgery consult was sought. They asked for still further evaluation in form of CT scans of chest and abdomen to see the extent of the dilatation. After the tests the patien...

ADO. Asad Aftab or ADO as we used to call him was a good friend and a sweet junior. He is no more amongst us for the hand of fate is relentless at times. Sometimes your first mistake becomes your last one too. This is the case with unlucky ADO. He should not have done what he did and he could have avoided the fate he met. But all ifs and buts are no better than lazy butts. Things happen the way they are not supposed to be its a simple rule of thumb.    One thing that should be learnt from the tragic incident is that peer pressure is a powerful force. It can lead you to harm's way as I have so often seen around me and it can lead you to success too. ADO's peers were those bastards who themselves have no sense of this world or the hereafter. I so much wish that either of them and not my dear friend ADO have died and would have been a much happier soul. Not that I am a Nazi who relishes for blood but because this way some evil could have been wiped off the soil. ...

A million dollar question now is, Is Bush fighting Alqaeda or Islam? Because at the moment it seems that Mr. Bush is into fighting a crusade rather than an anti terrorism campaign

Now why would someone like to keep track of payphones of the world. These guys maybe!

Websense.    Well I am too disappointed to write anything lately. Troubles seem to be coming from all sides. Anyways shit happens and one has to bear with it. So I was doing this search for some Stuff in my college library over the internet when the net decided to slow down to a snail's pace. I was too bored to do anything and thus decided to visit my own page and see if its downtime is over yet. And the results were hilarious. After 5 minutes of opening and opening a page from "Websense" appeared on the screen. It told me that the site I was trying to access was blocked for it contained adult content. I was agast taken back. Well the sense at websense doesn't seem to be working well. A blog of yet innocent human being blocked for no viable reason.

WHatever happened to my blog i dont see any posts

Mini Cooper.    The brand new Mini Cooper S Cabriolet is not that mini after all. The exterior is tough looking and the interior has more buttons and switches than you can think of. But everything is sleek and compact. The roof folds down so you can have a nice rush of air while on the move. Its a 170bhp machine with 1 to 100 in 7.4 seconds. Something about ithe car on here MSN cars .

A single day can ruin your whole month of efforts. As happened just today. I woke up late, couldn't follow my patients in the ward and then missed the urology core. All this, you see, is sufficient to ruin your grades in surgery. My consultant was pretty mad at me. Rightly so, coz i am not the sort who would do this kind of bunking and he doesnt know that yet! In other thoughts i think one thing has been bothering me a lot lately. that is gossipig baout people, people i don't have any or little business with. Need to cut on that but i wonder how.

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Haloscan. I had to do it some day so why not today. Not that i have innumerable comments to take care of but because all those few comments that i have i care for them. Have changed from Enetation to Haloscan for the purpose of convenience.

Cheaters can be friends but friends should not be cheaters. Simple as it might seem it is very difficult to manage in this world of ours. Some people, no matter how hard you try, can not be your friends because they prefer to be cheaters instead. I think it is an instinct inborn to some people. In these cases it is futile to try and maintain a good friendships.

As weird as it might seem my friend Uzer referred me to a cool web page for watch enthusiasts. I must say that it has not disappointed me at all. Just for example I came to know that the tip of an inch long hour hand on a wrist watch travels at 0.00000275 mph! Go see for yourself here

What do you do when your consultant was supposed to perform a surgery on saturday and he is not there. Your resident is nowhere to be found and everyone in the OR is staring at you like you were one mad man unshaven for last 5 days?

What Irrational Number Are You? You are √2 You are in good company, many other square roots are also irrational numbers. Just by being a square root you have been branded a radical. You are considered very attractive, especially by Europeans (at least on paper.) You fear that a relationship with another √2 may somehow end up complex and ultimately imaginary. In reality, only another √2 will make you whole. Your lucky number is approximately 1.41421356 Shiny Lemur Straif's Blog

Urology.    Doctor's life is strange. He has to know everything yet say nothing unless warranted. A typical day with patients may go like this: Doctor: So u said you are having sexual problems, what kind? Patient: Ah yes, I have erectile problem and ejaculation troubles with my wife. Doctor: OK since when have you been having these problems? Patient: Right from the time I was married doc. ...Interview follows more detail and then... Doctor: So have you ever been to a women apart from your wife? Patient:(looks around and then answers in whispering voice) Yes infact more than once. What do I have to hide from my doctor. (look at the doctor for appreciation of his feat in over coming his fear and telling the truth- Doctor not interested) Doctor: So were they commercial sex workers? Patient: Yes they were. Doctor: was the contact before the marriage? Patient: I think I must ell you the truth coz you are my doc. I was in states then so had a contact before the marriage and...