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Posts Tagged ‘Doctors’

Confiscation in the name of Treatment

By Dr RazaHaider • May 5th, 2009 • Category: Misc

An Ethical Discussion based on treatment beyond Consent hence irrationalism of medical practitioners in the name of advancement as technology. “Shame on this technology and unethical inflictions of irrational investigative procedures as experimentation that has embarrassed this subject of medicine, through the hand of a girl, who still; and yet to be declared as mature thought”.



“You are a Dead Man; when Doctor says, you are Dead”

By Dr RazaHaider • Apr 26th, 2009 • Category: Misc

Deciding when somebody is dead or about to die is quickly emerging as one of the top ethical issues in medicine today as technology makes it increasingly possible to keep people alive who would otherwise have died not so long ago. An Ethical Issue: based on Controversial treatment of putting some one on Ventilator and similar phenomenon of Removing from Ventilator. “A clinician by his skill and experience shall and must judge his patient condition prior to the demand and advice as, artificial assistance. But if at all he could not manage to define the fate of individual and tenure of his treatment in tame of time under ventilator; my feel as logic should drag him towards the plateau of malpractice as assumption”.



Medical Advancement, Technology and Inventions

By Dr RazaHaider • Jun 27th, 2008 • Category: Misc

most of the clinician acquire and resides at this plat form, so to enjoy the lack of knowledge of the patient and their attendant and on behalf and at the cost of their expertise



Healthy Pakistan: A Candid Look

By MK • Mar 4th, 2008 • Category: Misc

Keeping its population healthy is one of the basic duties of state. If a population is unhealthy it can not deliver on any front. Developed societies place a large emphasis on improving health indicators of their populations.
Keeping a population healthy is a complex business. It depends upon the amount of money going [...]



Is it in the manifesto? Part-2

By Farid Masood • Feb 16th, 2008 • Category: Pakistan Vote'08, Politics

Hospital are meant to be the place of cure, but when it becomes the place of transmitting infections to the patients then where is the right place for sick humanity.
A case in my life, where a patient came into hospital, under gone a surgery and then had Hepatitis –C virus infection. When that patient asked [...]



Hospitals – A place for ailing humanity or A Profitable Business

By The Pakistani Spectator • Jun 28th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Doctors were once thought to be God on earth. For a few decades this profession has adopted many ill-practices to make money.
Now this era came when people pray that fate don’t let them go to any hospital, for many a reasons like body parts smuggling, lack of infections control, poor quality medicines available in [...]



Magnetic Resource Imaging : An Intro

By The Pakistani Spectator • May 19th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is similar to an x-ray in regard that it allows doctors, medical practitionars and students to examine the internal structures of the body without tearing apart the outer skin. There are three key differences between an x-ray and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
The first and foremost is that x-rays utilize high-energy particles/waves which [...]



A Good Doctor

By The Pakistani Spectator • May 12th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

Many of us when got sick visit the doctor in whom we have faith. Our faith is dependent upon the time frame in which we get relief from illness. We say he is a good doctor. We next time choose him to get the medicines. Just take a look which medicines he gives you. Is [...]



Pharma Mafia

By The Pakistani Spectator • May 8th, 2007 • Category: Uncategorized

When we are sick we visit the doctor of our choice, whom we trust because of the medicines he gives provide us relief. Most of the doctors only prescribe the medicines which are available at the pharmacy within the same hospital. If you miss to take medicines from there you may not be able to [...]