Dettol is a brand since 1950’s. Their product line includes a number of items they call hygiene products. It’s a common myth that killing all the bacteria around you is good for your health. I don’t understand why humans are so fond of killing everything around them, including other humans too. No, killing bacteria all … Read more
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 that I came through has stated due to some “technical” issues with the part … Read more
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 the hospitals in Pakistan. First of all, one should understand that there are different … Read more
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 when you’re in some ambulance where you don’t have any instrument available to calculate … Read more
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 and government. Fair enough, let me make it clear, i am not at all … Read more
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 website imho. Emergency wasn’t closed and patients were being seen normally in the emergency. … Read more
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 crammed question and is more conceptual, discussing diseases and practical aspects of patients management. … Read more
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 know about is called??? 1. Just to begin Well, before going to bigger parts, … Read more
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 – fake rumor The message says: ATTENTION. …..Medical research Authority of the US have found … Read more
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 was great to prove how illiterate BBC reporters are in their field which they … Read more