Recently there have been a picture rotating around the internet with the text that some scientists at liverpool’s John Moore University have successfully cloned a dinosaur! Seriously? Well, technically a dinosaur can’t be cloned as per what the last published studies...
There exists a wide variation in duty structure and schedule of doctors, not only in different hospitals but in different departments of the same hospital even. However, I’ll try to summarize the structure and schedule for duty timings in most of...
We have dialer flow in hospitals which are used for ml/hour flow of the i/v fluid that we give to the patient. But in some cases we might require knowing how to adjust the flow without the dialer flow. For example...
We, as a nation, have a very weak memory as well as common sense . . . In the current scenario, everyone is just trying to yell at one party, and infact one person, shahbaz sharif, for the issue between doctors...
YDA Islamabad protested against brutal act of police and government against the doctors of punjab hospitals. They blocked the road for traffic for 2 hours and recorded their protest on media (geo and express) however, none was showed on tv or...
Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, conducted tests for houe jobs in all departments (medicine, surgery, paeds, gynae & obs, neonatology) last week. The test includes basically scenario based MCQ’s and is very much practical. The test doesn’t include the...
We normally sit in our gatherings and only blame doctors for their high fees, bad attitude and mal practices. Most of these observations are either completely or partially false. Corruption has many names, but commenting on a situation which you never...
There have been fake rumor out there about silver nitro oxide being able to cause skin cancer. It was on facebook first but now have reached to sms circle and rotating around too. Silver nitro oxide can cause skin cancer –...
There was a headline on BBC (CNN and other too) yesterday that scientists have carried out the FIRST synthetic transplant yesterday on 7th july 2011. And ofcourse, bloggers and teenage doctors running health sites become mad at republishing that post! This...
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflamatory disease. It is characterised by symetrical deforming poly arthritis. The disease is more common in females. Diagnostic Criteria for Rheumatoid Arthritis There are 7 main criteria out of which 4 sohould be present in...
