TO SEE OR NOT TO SEE - by Maham Tariq (RMC)

TO SEE OR NOT TO SEE! 

         (ARTICLE BY: Maham Tariq, 4th year MBBS, Rawalpindi Medical College)

…and this is unlike anything u might b expecting under this heading.

I was in 10th grade when I went to collect my roll no slip from school and my teacher said to me “beta jo student apkay peechay bethaygi board k exams may us say puch lijiayga, usay kuch na ata ho tau bta dijiayga”. Incidentally, this teacher used to teach as Islamiat.
Time...Well...it flies. Here I am now, Alhamdulilah, in the 4rth yr of my medical school. And things haven’t changed one bit. Our professors remind us every day that we since we would b dealing with human lives therefore we better study exceptionally hard and make sure that no one pays the price of our carelessness with their life. Paradoxically, when prof comes, many of them “help” in OSPEs. About 99.9% students tend to “help” each other in exams and those who don’t….well they are “mean and stubborn”.

Interestingly sometimes when we get our tests back after checking, we realize that our

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BREAST CANCER - Article By Hina Fatima

BREAST CANCER

(Article By: Hina Fatima, 4th Year MBBS Rawalpindi Medical College)

Cancer in its numerous forms is becoming a in every dimension growing problem in our modern all providing life and lifestyle.

Cancer is defined as rapid creation of abnormal cells that grow beyond their usual boundaries, and which can then invade adjoining parts of the body and spread to other organs.

It is a leading cause of death and accounted for 7.6 million deaths (around 13% of all the deaths) in year 2008 according to the estimates of Global Health Observatory.

Among all the cancers, lung, BREAST, colorectal, stomach and prostate cancer cause the majority of cancer related deaths. So the cancer type which would be focussed upon in this article stands

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Top 10 Most Awkward moments in the life of a medical student

Although a totally awkward life starts the moment steps into a medical college, we have tried to arrange them in an order of priority.There'll be loads more that you'll think should have been on the top of list, but this is the way I thought it should be. So here goes Top 10 awkward moments for a medical student.

1- When some of your relatives comes up with pain in abdomen and says "Doctor gimme some medicine!" and you are like....."Meeeee???" o_0

2- When some senior asks you to turn the electric bulb off by simple blowing air out of your mouth- on your very first day :p :P

3- When you are on your first

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UHS Vice Chancellor- Behind The Story

UHS Vice Chancellor Malik Mubashar has been facing many corruption allegations.Advocate General Punjab Mr.Ashtar Asaf has ordered VC.UHS Malik Mubashar to resign and reamburse the looted money back to UHS. AG Office took the step on basis of Co-Warranto case filed by YDAP and Employees of UHS.
According to the case following points had been raised.

1.Mubashar is overage i.e, 67yrs.

2.Completed tenure. 

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PIC medicine disaster: Isotab is the killer pill

LAHORE: 

A London laboratory has determined that Isotab, a medicine manufactured by Efroze Chemical Industries, caused the reaction that has so far cost 120 lives.

At a press conference on Wednesday, Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif revealed that Isotab tablets, which are meant for heart patients, had been contaminated with an anti-malarial chemical, which resulted in fatalities to patients who used it daily. The medicine was given free of cost to patients of the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC).

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