The author has served as Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiac Surgery, King Edward Medical University.
Instead of making thousands of informal practitioners stop practicing medicine, it might be better to accept their contributions and bring them...
The idea that ‘fresh’ graduates with little training will be forced to work independently in rural centres is frightening
Physical confrontations between members of the Young Doctors Association and senior academic staff of KE warrants patient soul-searching
How to salvage a sinking King Edward Medical College/University and improve medical education?
The present mess in the healthcare system is due to the fact that public sector is being run by politicians, sycophantic bureaucrats and their often...
Over 1200 deaths in Karachi heatwave must serve as a warning for the future climate disasters
Instead of building freestanding cardiac institutes, cardiac departments in existing teaching hospitals should be upgraded and expanded
Why is our present system of medical education rapidly deteriorating?
A few healthy tips to cope with the rising temperature
The entire emphasis of medicine concerning diseases of the arteries is to prevent a heart attack and if it occurs, to limit the damage it produces
"Everybody is healthy until they become sick" still holds true as science advances with new healthcare concepts
A new health advisory shows replacing all foods containing cholesterol from diet does not make the amount of cholesterol in the blood go down
And then the truth came out. Health scientists that made recommendations some 40 years ago that cholesterol and fat in diet were the ultimate evil...
Spurious medicines and contaminated dietary supplements are potent health hazards
Can Pakistan ever have a decent public healthcare system?
Are Pakistani doctors not a part of this culture where everybody is doing whatever they can to make as much money as possible?
Why New Year’s resolutions are hard to achieve
Thalassaemic patients becoming infected by HIV through blood transfusions should make the healthcare establishment start taking this mode of HIV...
Medicines that should only be available on a physician’s prescription are freely available at almost every drug store due to lack of regulatory...
Hepatitis C has become an epidemic in Pakistan and there is no end in sight since the governments neither have the will nor the wherewithal to...
