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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POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS

POSTMENOPAUSAL OSTEOPOROSIS (PRIMARY TYPE 1 OSTEOPOROSIS)

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(ARTICLE BY: Hina Fatima, 3rd Year MBBS, Rawalpindi Medical College)

The term osteoporosis as defined by The National Institutes of Health Consensus Conference reveals “a disease of increased skeletal fragility accompanied by a low bone mineral density (a T score for bone mineral density lower than 2.5) and microarchitectural deterioration”.
Postmenopausal osteoporosis,however strongly refers to

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Addressing The Problems Faced By 1st Year Medical Students

Reaching a top-profession institute like a medical college is dream and desire of every passionate student. Every student who aspires to choose the profession of medicine and does all the studies devotedly and passionately, finally reaches the rank of those who are considered the cream of nation's education and are admitted into a medical college.

At this point, he considers himself as one of the most successful persons in the world and rightly so. He would be able to continue his studies without

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How To Lose weight- Day to day Plan

1. Day 1 plan
2. Day 2 plan
3. Day 3 plan
4. Day 4 plan
5. Day 5 plan
6. Day 6 plan

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Electives Experience in Pakistan (Holy Family Hospital, RMC, Rawalpindi)

Kathleen O’Dea from The University of Queensland Australia recently came to SU Unit 2 Holy
Family Hospital for a month long clinical elective. Read on as she describes her experience


Prof Asif Zafar Malik, who was the clinical preceptor, is head of Surgical Unit II at Holy Family Hospital and project
director of the Telemedicine e]health training centre there. Week 1 and 2 were mostly spent in Surgical Unit II
at Holy Family hospital.
Jan 15 Introduction to SU II : Staff include 12 junior doctors, 12 postgraduate trainees, & 5 consultants. This team is
responsible for half of the general surgical and orthopedic patients presenting to Holy Family Hospital and cares for
a 45 bed ward, usually full. The team is on call to

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How to lose weight - Day 6 plan

Well, coming to the plan of 6th day on "how to lose your weight", first see how much are you satisfied with your routine and how well you have adjusted everything in your daily routine. Be honest with yourself about following the routine and evaluating the results because this is where it matters where this is heading to. Just give your everything to it if you really want to get smart and look kool. Just remember

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USMLE - A beginner's guide

What is USMLE?


USMLE, United States Medical Licensing Examination, is US based examination system to get license for practice in US. Medical students need to clear USMLE steps before applying for residency in U.S based hospitals. This 3-step examination aims to assess the ability to apply the knowledge, concept and ability to diagnose, treat and manage the patient in an effectice and patient-centered environment.
It is governed by

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How to lose weight - Day 5 plan

Well, before we start our day 5 plan, just look back and see what improvements u have to make. Where you have been lousy, where u can put more effort. Be honest with what you do. Moving on with today's plan, get up early and go for jogging. Try to go an extra mile as far as you can. The actual effort that counts is when you are about to

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A guide to clinical Electives

Going for clinical electives in a developed country like UK, USA or canada has always been a dream for medical students. Electives are considered to b a good step for career building of a medical student. First of all, lets talk about what are electives in the medical world?
what are electives?
Clinical electives consist of a short duration course in a specific field where the

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Profs, Medical students and Dengue- behind the scenes and after effects.

Dengue proved out to be a major epidemic this year in Pakistan which affected people from all fields of life including medical students. Many of the medical students were affected by dengue right before their annual professional exams were about to commence. This led to a serious problem because they were not able to prepare for their exams. It was just two days before that all the students specially from

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How to lose your weight - Day 3 plan.

So here comes your day 3 plan for losing your weight.
Now things would be getting critical, as you ll have to add more and more effort in ur daily routine. Every coming day should be harder when it comes to exercise and the key is to keep ur morale higher. During this routine, you are not supposed to check weight and mark it down now at this time. You have left all the oily food by now and junk too but never go for

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How to lose weight-2nd day plan.

So here comes ur second day plan on how to lose your weight effectively. Now after you hav successfully followed the day one routine, u are on the track.Now all you have to do

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Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome - A growing problem

The diseases are on the rise owing to the growing change of lifestyles and feeding habits. The details of PCOS can be found all over the web so i am not gonna go there. What i am gonna discuss is something simple. Feeling dizzy all the time? lethargic? unable to concentrate? feeling that you are gaining weight? feeling thirsty hungry? its time to start worrying. Many of these matters depends upon the mood but that is not case every time.

Trust me you don't want this!

All the diseases and disorders start off in your brain. You start having all kinds of different ideas that something is wrong with you. This is most common among doctors due to their knowledge of medicine. But care is of utmost importance. In today's world the biggest dilemma is that we acquire most of the diseases from what we eat. If we talk about PCOS then broiler chicken and all the fast food products pose the paramount factor as taking you step by step closer to this disease.
The trends are changing we see people approaching all sorts of fast foods. Mcdonals , KFC , Hardies... the list goes on.. All this is becoming a trend especially in Pakistan where these

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For the medical students... Preparing for the Finals

Time is flying as you know it. At once instant you found yourself at the year's beginning and now months have passed and finally were stepping into September the time of Annual send ups and professional examinations.
Feeling depressed over your year's performance? well this is something natural. Medical college is a place where every body is a genius and a hard worker in the purest meaining of the word. But alas the examination and trial system of medical colleges

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How to quit smoking..

Before I start writing about what to do lets think about why should we shun smoking? Writing about nicotine and tar is all useless. Millions of advertisements are running day and night showing how smoking can cause cancer and lung diseases etc. Despite knowing all the hazards everybody still does smoke. Making some one afraid of some thing won’t make any difference unless the very person is willing himself to stay away from

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For a Better life

Ever wondered why the people before us led more healthier lives then we do? despite the fact that medicine was not that much developed as it is now. The answer is simple. They were more happier and content with their lives then we are or we will ever be. With the passing time the human population is blooming without any limits. There is more space being occupied than being freed. Resources are diminishing, demands are

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Medical Student Syndrome

 "Medical Student Syndrome" (MSS)
Medical student syndrome "MSS" also named medical student disorder, medical student disease and hypochondriasis of medical students is a condition frequently reported in medical students nowadays.

MSS is a constellation of

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Contact lenses-advantages and disadvantages

 Advantages

• Clear vision
• Has wider field of view
• Excellent

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Influenza Vaccine — Safe, Effective, and Mistrusted

On August 10, 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic. It is fortunate that the virus that had spread worldwide so quickly turned out to be less severe than was first feared. It is worth remembering, though, that an

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Withholding Information from Patients — When Less Is More

As clinicians who strongly value truth telling and active patient involvement in medical decision making,1 we have lately been reflecting on the circumstances in which physicians consciously (and sometimes unconsciously) withhold from patients information about their conditions, treatments, and outcomes. The ethical principle of autonomy would suggest that patients should

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