Crow's Nest...

Lot of water has flown from under the bridges in this country. This can be said with some authority in both metaphorical and literal terms. The Red Mosque has turned into a charred remain of black, the CJ has been restored, the minister has been sent on remand, the rains have fallen like sins spewing forth from the annals of this nation eventually flooding the rivers. The incident of the red mosque was both tragic and unwanted. Innocent blood seems to be cheap in the market and our soldiers are proud to make victory signs after having proudly subduing their own. But one thing should be kept in mind. The American soldier, when he returns from Iraq or Afghanistan , has effectively become a psychopath who needs long hours of psychiatric help to bring him back to his/her senses and get war ready again. But American soldiers should feel lucky that they have a good system in place for handling the emotional consequences of the war on terror. My worry is my soldier. It is easy to sa...

I have been on a blog vacation because of various reasons. After my last post about MQM on this blog my access to blogger was blocked. I wasn't able to sign in till today. Then i have been working the work that i have been trained to work. I am doing my house job at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS). It has been, so far, the worst experience in my life as a doctor. The experience is so bad that last night i was on call and all the time i was wondering on my luck and how it had spiralled down so badly over the past years. I was hoping that something would happen and i would die instead of being tortured again ad again and again, relentlessly. The IQ level of this nation, especially the people at the helm of affairs, is so low and pathetic that it puts me to shame and makes me wonder, when will i die! It is my firm belief that the DHQ Hospital Jhang is a much better place both in terms of learning experiences and efficiency in terms of the hospital, when we put both...

Someone pointed out something very interesting to me during the discussion of the events of May 12th in Karachi. The footage of people firing on the streets of Karachi was strange in that some of the people were wearing white shalwar Qameez well dressed bright and shiny. These were the same people who did not fit in with the rest in that they were tall build and strong stature. I have known the 'mela partymen' (MQM workers) and none of them is as well built and has good heights. I mean it is very odd to find a 'mela' with good physique. So the thought was that it was not MQM or PPP or Jamiat alone but there was someone else fighting on MQM's side. When we put these facts with the information that Talat Hussain provided us while his channel was under siege was that he could see plenty of G3 guns in the hands of the culprits firing at the building. G3 is the official issue of Pakistan Army. It is a general understanding that Pakistan Army has the single largest...

A party from the present govt. staged a show of power in the country today. The show of power turned into a show of fire power in the largest city of the country, Karachi. MQM is the party in power in Karachi and it has shown today that it can subdue anyone with its fire power through that is comparable to any small army in the world. I turned on my TV at 2 pm in the afternoon today expecting a lot of drama to have happened. Sadly i was not disapponted by the rogue MQM. First scenes that i saw on the TV were of MQM workers bearing party flags on their cars and motorcycles holding all sorts of weapons in their hands and firing indiscriminately at anyone they could see. They had ammunition in steady supply through flag bearing cars that appeared on the scene regularly to bring in more guns and bullets for the MQM bandits to play with. But soon the higher ups in the party found out that a tv channel was airing their criminal activities directly to the people of Pakistan and abroad....

Medical Representatives make a real fool out of doctors. Just today a medical rep accompanied me all along the length of my clinic. His deal was that if i prescribe his medicine to the patient he will provide the patients with free first two doses of the medicine. I didn't prescribe his medicine to any of my patients of my own free will. He was selling piroxicam a potent analgesic and anti inflammatory agent. The drug is prohibitively expensive at 8 rupees for a single tablet. Yet he was adamant that it was a very very cheap alternative to many of the drugs available in the market. I have been trained to doubt all medical representative authority. But all is not lost on this front. Medical representatives are human beings too. True they want to sell their drugs and do so by any means possible but still most of them do things that is very classifiable as human compassionate behaviour. they know that the free samples that they leave on the tables do not go to waste but are ...

The MS at our hospital has changed. The old one is gone and forgotten and the new one is taking charge and being praised. Strange attitudes of the people here! Being a junior doctor who takes little interests in people around him i was not aware of the change up until today when the new MS made a surprise visit to my clinic. So ignorant was i that my doctor in charge had to inform me ' nai MS sahib'. I am thankful to him for telling me or else i barely stand up to greet anyone. He being my boss deserved that i dismantled my routine and get up from my very comfortable chair to shake hands and share a word or two with him. The guy himself was not interested in meeting a junior doctor rather he was somewhat surprised that this hospital had doctors doing house jobs.( sometimes i am surprised too!). I was noticing for the past two days that my senior doctors were arriving in the hospital earlier than me and clinics were starting at 8 in the morning instead of the normal 10...

I have never actually blogged about my house job in DHQ Jhang. It is an interesting story and needs a lot of time to be told in detail. It has almost been a month since i started my house job at District Headquarters Hospital Jhang. This is the main hospital in the district for a population of around 2 million people. It supposedly has all the facilities that a tertiary care hospital should have. But that is not the case. My hospital is a 300 bed hospital located on the busiest road of the city. It employs almost all the doctors taht live in this city. I am one of them. The building of the hospital is very old and about to fall on itself. The plaster is crusting and the sewerage is busting out of its civilized limits. There is no waste disposal for the hospital and most of the waste is sold to crooked buyers who sit right across the road. There are a million medical stores right across the road and the life in there is busy with patients and patient relatives buying and selli...