Sunday, September 22, 2024

House Job

 I frequently get students from Pakistan to rotate with me. The following is a share from one of the students.

"Sir! A House Job in Pakistan can be a farce. It is full of scud work. It is more of a slavery. Learning entirely depends on the person himself. In some cases, you don't even get paid. One of the account section clerks held my last three months of salary, as I mistakenly shared that I am going to the USA. 

My father is a physician who did his MBBS during Pakistan's golden days of medical education. Now, it's all expensive fees. Students start preparing for USMLE from day one. It's an investment, not an education, and a relatively easy way to get a USA visa.

My father saw me after the first three days of my house job. He asked how was it?

I furiously replied: Horrible!

He just mumbled: Hmmm.

I continued: 'Pehle din registrar ne kaha, mere rishtedaar ka le ja ker MRI kerwa do. Poora din lag gaya. Dusre din, aik aur senior ne apne kisi rishtdar ke bachhe ki circumsision kerwane bhijwa diya"

Father asked: "Did you learn anything?"

I replied: "Is main kiya learn kerne ka tha?"

Father said, "In medicine, your learning starts as you enter the hospital. It's like a learning temple. You could have learned from MRI technicians about the essentials they look for before the procedure, how they determine different cuts, and how they process films - or a difference between a closed and open MRI - The next day, you could have learned how they determine the length of the foreskin for circumcision. It all depends on you."

From then on, I changed my approach. As I indulged at every step with a learning mindset, I felt I had become a different person and a better physician.

Friday, September 20, 2024

On Men, Women, Love, Lust, and Relationship

(Someone wrote on Quora)

 Whereas there will be a gap between the two sexual intercourses of the male...

He will jerk away from the female after the first mating.

And it is his nature to want to sleep.

Whereas the female nature is entirely opposite.

She is eager to hear those words from his mouth immediately after intercourse that will tickle her...

She doesn't know that a man cannot love after love

He may yearn for love after the war.

He basically plays the role of hunter?

Yes, in civilized society, this tendency is covered in beautiful clothes.

Hitler, the world's greatest dictator, used to kill five hundred men every day and write love songs with his head in his girlfriend's lap.

His cheeks would get wet while describing the past moments of separation from her.

Enraged by the carnage in the Kalinga war, Ashoka yearned for love...

He incorporated Buddhist philosophy into himself in this way

Today, Ashoka and Buddhist philosophy cannot be separated.

Even Napoleon Bonaparte used to take off his armor and immerse himself in love; he was so romantic and dedicated to his beloved.

At this time, no poet or even a man with an innocent heart can be so dedicated.

He will play for some ten minutes.

Which will not satisfy him in any way...

To get this satisfaction, he may be eager to change his partner.

Wherever social bonds are weak, this change occurs within about six months.

But these changes neither change the situation nor his mentality...

That means he fails to love in getting love.

If it becomes an outlet for the wildness of man

So he can love, he can receive, he can give...

This is one reason the female always leans towards the unruly male rather than the socially civilized one.

This is why spoiled guys get devoted girlfriends.

Let the boys get the tag of being socially civilized...

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

What a brilliant artist - Safdar Ali Soomro

Like all other people, I was introduced to Safdar Ali Soomro after his stolen paintings were found accidentally in a Pakistani drama. I was absolutely stunned by his talent. He deserves better.

Sunday, September 08, 2024

Go with the flow (?)

 Sometimes, people around you make comments that stop you to ponder. 

Two days ago, while returning from a medical conference, my flight was delayed due to a storm while I was at the gate. The airline offered passengers the option of waiting or changing to other flights. I was intending to take the offer and fly the next day.

I asked one of the passengers (a professor at Mayo Clinic) beside me what we should do. He gave an interesting reply:

" When I was not that wise and used to go with the flow and whatever came my way, I made better choices in life. Since I started thinking of myself as intelligent, I made little progress. Life is a much higher phenomenon, and the human mind, with logic, usually fails against life's curve balls. I guess I will wait."


Wednesday, September 04, 2024

Talking to women

 اراض عورت سے بحث نہ کریں آپ اپنا وقت ضائع کر رہے ہیں اور مطمئن عورت سے بحث نہ کریں آپ اس کا وقت ضائع کرتے جا رہے ہیں"


[انیس منصور |

Monday, September 02, 2024

Baap

مَیں اگر سو سال بھی جغرافیے میں فیل ہوتا رہوں
اور زندگی بھر اس سکول سے باہر نہ جا سکوں
تب بھی
مَیں اس سوال کے جواب میں
کہ دنیا کا سب سے اونچا پہاڑ کون سا ہے؟
بے شک و شبہہ یہی لکھوں گا: باپ

شاعر:؟

Original Persian below 



Friday, August 30, 2024

Professionals are amateurs!

 This is in response to an email in which I refused to do a podcast on the pretext that I had no experience.

Professionals are overrated – The Titanic was built by professionals. The Arc by amateurs!

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Maths

The laws of nature are the mathematical thoughts of God. ~ anonymous 

Sunday, August 25, 2024

bhaR main jaaye naukri bech khaii bandooq

 I have a colleague from Indore, India.

A couple of years ago, he quit his job and went on a world trip. He came back and started his job again. When I saw him, I asked, "What the point?"

He replied after taking a relaxing sip of his coffee: "Hamare Indore main aik kahawat mashoor hai:

bhaR main jaaye naukri bech khaii bandooq

Phir karainge naukri phir khareedain get bandooq


Saturday, August 24, 2024

NDE

An academic who "died" for seven minutes has shared what he saw on 'the other side'. Speaking about the incident, the man, who's been deep into astrophysics PhD studies for 40 years plus, revealed a near-death experience due to a lung hemorrhage in March that resulted in a code blue - medical emergency call.

Through Reddit, he shared his story: "It took the doctors seven minutes to get my heart started again. During that time, I had a stroke due to the lack of oxygen in my brain." Upon gaining back consciousness after two days of a semi-conscious state, he posed the question: "What happened?"

'The actual correlation was something of challenging to comprehend but he got the hang of it eventually, reports the Mirror. His experience during those collapse moments extinguished his dread of death. He quipped: "I'm not scared of dying, not in the least. Afraid of what comes before, sure, but nature makes dying easy."

Further detailing his vision, he noted: "I saw a series of three oval ellipses, one at a time, just suspended in a black space. The ellipses were all upright, as though they were suspended by a string (but they weren't), and they all had a thickness to them, like a ring. On the inner and outer surfaces of the first ellipse, I saw mountains, streams, forests, and clouds.They were beautiful at first, but then they began to sour as their colors took on a yellow tinge. It faded away, and was replaced by a second ellipse that was a hot ring of iron, so hot that pieces of iron were slowly crumbling from it."

He remembered the smell of iron, which he later realized could be the scent of blood, suggesting that his physical surroundings influenced his visions. He continued: "I now take it that this is when I was in cardiac arrest. Suddenly the scene brightened to reveal the third ellipse that was covered with beautiful clouds that were light pink and blue, like from the most beautiful sunrise or sunset. That, I believe, is when my heart started beating again. When I regained consciousness, those three ellipses remained firmly fixed in my memory. When I was told days later about my cardiac arrest and stroke, it all began to make sense to me."

In an attempt to understand his visions, he explained how he had been studying German astronomer Johannes Kepler's Astronomica Nova and trying to comprehend how Kepler determined that the orbits of the planets are ellipses rather than circles. He believes that during his cardiac arrest, this concept was still on his mind, causing him to "latch onto that shape" subconsciously.

"That's all I saw. No tunnel of light or happy deceased family members welcoming me. I think that's dreaming, and dying reflect what happens to be most accessible in your mind during that time. Your mind tells you a story about it. I was never afraid during my ordeal, I was just a dispassionate observer. Amazingly, the only lasting effect of my seven minutes of code blue is a slightly diminished capacity of my short-term memory."