The author has served as Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiac Surgery, King Edward Medical University.
Modern technology is reaching the point where computers will evaluate medical data to provide both a diagnosis as well as a plan of treatment
In the midst of the modern concept of ‘evidence based medicine’, many physician groups are starting to re-emphasise the importance of personal...
Prevention of diseases that often affect the rich must not get preference over the diseases that cause great morbidity and mortality among the poor...
Taking care of rich and famous patients sometime creates situations that spoil the doctor-patient relationship
Longevity and healthy life depends on lifestyle choices we make, but not all the time
All the reasons for which Ebola became a problem in West Africa also exist in Pakistan
Medicine has done much to make human life better but medicine also has its dark side. Innovation might seem great when it first comes on board but...
When it comes to the health and welfare of the people of Pakistan, Pakistan has become a laboratory for the concepts of political economy put...
In the year 1981, I joined one of the larger private hospitals in the city of Newark in New Jersey as a consultant in cardiac and thoracic ...
Every now and then a friend of mine asks me, why can’t I build a state of the art hospital? I have the financial capability, I have the land...
Public health is a diverse concept. When we look at the overall ‘health’ of a society we must also look at what are the different causes...
Now that summer is upon us, our streets will soon fill up with vendors selling different liquid refreshments. The problem is that most of these...
Is Pakistan producing enough doctors? Most people involved in healthcare will say no, we don’t have enough doctors. It is correct we have...
‘Trust me, I am a doctor’, is a statement that today is used more often than not in a joke or else as a sarcastic reflection on the...
Exercise is now the big treatment for almost all major disease. Medical reports and studies suggest that regular exercise delays or even prevents...
One of the important areas where modern liberal and conservative politics collide is concerning the welfare state and the ‘safety net’...
Association of Pakistani descent Physicians of North America is one of the largest Pakistani origin physician’s organisations in the United...
As a political junkie and physician, the role of medical problems of ‘leaders’ and its effect on politics and history has interested me...
Recently, I had an interesting discussion with a friend and a former colleague about the future of cardiac surgery. My friend now runs one of the...
For a Punjabi like me, travelling from Lahore to Gujranwala on the GT Road is always a pleasure. Along the road one can see farms stretching for...
