Shifa International Hospital conducted a series of capacity building workshops for the medical staff of Gilgit Baltistan province. I am involved in teaching physicians and was very happy to be part of this activity. Education and updating knowledge is a very essential part of post graduate life for a physician. Medical knowledge has never been […]
In life we want things to be of high quality, and we don’t mind paying higher than usual price for that. When it comes to our own health and the healthcare system, we should also think about quality and as a physician provide it to our patients, or as a patient demand quality from our […]
Pakistan has quite a sizable share of the poisonous snakes and every year significant number of people dies due to snake bite. By one of the estimates about 1.9 of the 100,000 people die each year in Pakistan from snake bite. It may not seem too high of a number but still it is unacceptable and […]
Children are hope for our future. A healthy nation needs healthy population to excel in physical and mental aspects and be productive. It also has to spend less in healthcare if population is overall healthy. Moreover if disease has to occur we need to catch it early. This will result in early treatment of the […]
The hot summer is upon us. Its the time of the year that slows us down because of extreme heat and then it also ends up in making some of us sick. If we want to continue our life at the same pace and avoid being sick, there are things which we can do to […]
Antibiotics are mainstay of treatment by the general practitioner as well as in emergency department across the world. This is because of its capacity of eradicate the organisms if they are suspect able. Patients feel better quick and regard them as miracle drugs. The results in at times over reliance on the class of drugs […]
A patient when comes in contact with any physician for his or her ailment, he or she expects the best care from the doctor when the same patient visits different doctors they are treated differently. Some of that difference can be attributed to the expertise and experience of physician or level of training and still […]
This month I am going to update you all regarding the emergency medicine residency program. Like any new program it is going through the growing pains and setbacks which most are expected to be resolved over time and with efforts from all the faculty members, colleagues, trainees and other faculties as it is a collective […]
For the patients who take the medications prescribed by the doctors, it may not make any difference but when physicians see the patients in the emergency department across the world, or in the doctor offices it is utmost important that the correct medicines be known to the physician who is going to take some actions […]
People who work in the emergency department know the Value of pre-hospital Care. In fact the best outcome in trauma victims is when they receive timely and appropriate pre-hospital care. Unfortunately Pakistan does not have a good and established pre-hospital Care System. I would like to share the story of a newly married young female […]
