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Breast cancer: Pakistan’s most common cancer
It was the summer of 1999, when a bunch of us, final year medical students, were attending to patients in the crowded outpatient department at the Mayo Hospital in Lahore. Our professor had called us...
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“Could I have done more?” – A psychiatrist’s struggle with patient suicide
It’s a story I feel compelled to tell. It may be therapeutic for me and possibly for others as well. It’s a story that needs to be told. But I hesitate. I fear the stigma. I am afraid of being judged....
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If my father dies, I will hold Islamabad’s Shifa International responsible...
As I write this, my father is fighting for his life, unconscious with a ventilator pumping oxygen into his frail body from a makeshift tank in the surgical step-down of supposedly one of the best...
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Why did the doctors of Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital refuse to treat a...
Recently, in Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital, a victim of a gunshot wound was left unattended for three hours. The patient was critically injured and the doctors refused to administer treatment....
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It’s about time we talk about suicide
A few months ago, I received a frantic phone call from a friend. He told me his 11-year-old son tried to hang himself. This was not the first time; he had made similar attempts in the past, and also...
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Is it ethical for doctors to accept gifts from big pharmaceutical companies?
A little over a decade ago, as a new and idealistic intern at Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, I was determined to put the patients first at this important juncture of my professional life. I was warmly...
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Why aren’t there any well-equipped ambulances available in Karachi?
A few years ago, my cousin passed away in Gwadar. His wife had to transport his body from Gwadar to Karachi in a Toyota Hiace because she could not get hold of an ambulance. That memory resurfaced when...
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As her doctor, could I have done more?
My ER shift started in chaos. “Does it have something to do with today being Friday the 13th?” I wondered, although not really being all that superstitious. I knew it was just a momentary thought. On...
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The reality of public hospitals: I lost my nana to medical negligence in...
On March 18th at 11pm, my nana (maternal grandfather) developed an acute shortness of breath, and was admitted to the Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) at the People’s Medical College and Hospital in Nawabshah....
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As technology advances, so does healthcare in Pakistan – convenient and free,...
What do you do when your toddler slips and hits their head? Or when someone chokes at the dinner table? Or when you have a severe headache? Even when we hope that we don’t have to deal with such...
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