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”.

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Got my result ... and alhamdulillah its 99\242

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