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I feel elated ! A thousand views! Yahooooooooooooooooo! My greatest help has been ‘google images’.Getting the most sarcastic pictures……specially the animated one. Calling my very basic English, excellent! I guess, they are just too kind! My patients are the greatest inspiration. Its funny that even as I walk down corridors in the hospitals , stories build up till I just fill up and throw them all on this blog. This is my 21st post , and if I think back, my favourite among them is ‘A fairy tale’.   Given above are my worldwide readers. I would like to thank all! It just makes me wonder , exactly who is reading from Germany.Had someone mistakenly opened my link there?   The one view from HTC is of my father’s! I’ll ask him to visit again, so that would make it two. Then there are people, who leave comments. Usually once I’m done with a post I ask my brother to read, and at times, even dictate that he should leave the following comment .. It was recently that I...

The Falah night arranges for another movie. “The King’s speech”, to be shown on Thursday, the email says. I read its review and it has won a number of golden globe awards and now nominated for oscars. Maybe I should watch it , I think to myself. Today morning, I ask chulbul, i.e. Saima Kamal , whether she’d like to join in. She says yes, and we drag in Aini , for the reason that we need someone to keep us laughing! Excellent English, and excellent cursing! Starting time is 6 pm. The movie finally starts at 6:45! Venue is the auditorium, a place where very serious morning meetings take place.We are equipped with chips, drinks, roasted peanuts, chocolates. Ghufran (the intern, the jut from Punjab), joins us. He offers us his “tulsi”and in return gets a share from all that we have!   The movie is about a prince, who stammers, and is finally made or rather is forced to be the king! He has problems with speech, and now he has to broadcast! The movie is beautifully made, filled wi...

Guys , here comes the weekend! I have four patients.One of the funniest ones. At least that’s what Aini says. In his vocabulary of a gizzilion words , he tried to find the most appropriate words of praise There is this Uncle ,who is admitted  under care of Dr Faisal, but only wants to see Dr Amir Hameed. He is what Dr Ayesha Kamal says “full of history”! The day he arrived, he told me that  he’d a pacemaker in and he wanted it checked (as he thought that it might have malfunctioned secondary to his fall). I did exactly that, called the experts to check the pacemaker (as I could not fulfil his second wish of making Dr Amir Hameed meet him there and then). The pacemaker was checked and it was functioning fine. I checked back to see if he was happy now, but he was annoyed.He said, “The technicians have not checked it right , only Amir Hameed knows how to do that!”. Then he went on about why he wants to see Dr Amir Hameed, in his vocabulary of a gizzilion words , he tried to...

Half a month done.First 15 days of senior residency.Senior resident................... a title which seemed like a curse initially!Things have started to improve.The rule is doesn't matter if you know stuff or not, just act as if you do! Dr Saliha Ishaq was my attending for the first half.She is nice, sweet easy going.Lets you do whatever you want to. The promises I start enthusiastic, plan that I ll study all electrolyte imbalances.I haven't completed even one.I can blame it on 'residents appreciation night'.That I was busy rehearsing for the skits, news.......but there are no excuses.If I haven't studied, there is no one to blame apart from myself! The shift As per schedule, the last fifteen days , the consultant changes and now its an even sweeter attending.........Dr Faisal Mehmood.The first day with him today.My intern picks up the file for follow up presentation and leaves the clip open.Result, papers slip out.He starts to panic.Cardio fellow mock...

Half a month done! Dr Saliha takes us out for lunch , about 40 minutes from now!The last half month has been wonderful.I started off jittery.New year, new responsibilities, new intern.His name is Saadat, and he is just that , saadatmand.Early morning he prints new profiles and religiously writed "imp" (meaning important), and tells me "Madam, ab naheen gum hoon gee!"