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U.S. Medical Transcription Market Worth $40 Million to India
Inflight CE    As if back breaking burden of work was not enough to keep the doctors bent over there is more news. An innovative company has introduced the concept of inflight continuing education. Hereby the doctors enroute to medical conferences will be able to take CME on their flight to their destinations. Read about it on medical informatics.
Guys you need to read this post for this is something serious.
A great place to study.    Yes this is the name of the article written by the US ambassador in Pakistan and deals with the issue of foreign medical students in the land of the free. The whole article is replete with false claims and assurances that is so characteristic of the US government. At one point in time the honourable writer makes us believe that after the installation of Student and Exchange Visitor System it has become ever so easy for the aspiring students to enter states in peace. The writer talks of foreign medical students and the benefit they bring to the US society both in terms of cultural diversity and monetary inflow. He tells us of new scholarships being given to help students study in states. In the end he ends his essay with the following note, For Pakistanis thinking about your own future, I strongly recommend that you consider higher education in the United States. With more than 3600 fully accredited institutions of higher education, America offers numero
We are back from the break and I hope that more interest will be shown in blogging regularly on male hostel. In other news our number has yet increased from four to five bloggers. Isn't it a shame that the number of posts that five of us can manage in a week is less than five.
Just watched The Pianist... Holy moly! Quite a movie...shook me shook me shook me...and here's why! We all know abt Herr Hitler. Janab Izzat Maab Sahib Hitler killed around 6 million jews {at least according to American Stats) between 1938 and 1944 under his clean-the-world-from-jews fund drive...and ain't that funny! That was the last straw that broke the world' back...and had everyone clamouring for one place for the Jews to live...and surprise surprise! They ended up in Palestine...funny, huh? Lemme clear up something right at the beginning. I am not racist...or if I am to be brutally honest, not very. I still think no matter what plan God had made for the Jews and no matter how much they've been driven out from wherever they've ever lived, one can't simply kill an entire community just because their beliefs are different. I remember a time when I used to hate them because of what I knew was happening to Muslims in Palestine (it still is! I hate the Israelit
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Faryal Gohar the other day wrote in the Daily Dawn. I normally do not read articles that are longer than a few words unless they are really interesting or really important. Had heard about her and read few of her articles previously so thoght that this one might be worth the time. And it really was. Here is what she had to write Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, Prime Minister's House, Islamabad Dear Sir, I write to you today after many long days of serious consideration, wondering whether it was worth the effort, even worth the paper I write on, to speak to you about the things which trouble me, which keep me awake at night, pulsing like a river whose banks will surely collapse with the weight of the water which gathers bit by bit, even in this barren, desert landscape which stretches before me. Two months ago I began another letter to you, congratulating you on your achievement of the highest office in the land and asking you the questions I have asked each time I have had the pri
And so he walked forth into the Presence of God... I have religious mood swings on and off...although it is true that I also believe in Allah mian (I hope!) perfectly anyway. Last night, I went to my aunt's place since it was a Taq Raat (an odd night in the holy month of Ramadan), and there I listened to a tiny Dars and offered the Nafal prayer Qayam-ul-lail behind my 13-year-old cousin who is a Hafiz (a Muslim who's memorised the Quran in its entirety). It was fun. I kept a copy of the First Sipara of the Quran in my hand as he recited it (kinda beautifully!) and went through the Translation of the Sipara. Then I had an interesting dicourse with my aunt who's by the way quite an Islamic student, and we talked about many topics we picked at random from the Quran. I came back and began reading Martin Ling's Mohammad: His life from the Earliest Sources , exclaimed in wonder (as I did when I first read this book) again, loved certain bits of it, and then finally read
Love Story I was reading Martin Ling (Abu Bakr Sirajuddin)'s Mohammad: his life from the earliest sources when I came across this paragraph, where Khadija, a rich and beautiful widow of Mecca (and a distant relative of Mohammad) offers herself to Mohammad, the merchant who, by now, is famous all over Mecca by the name of Al-Amin, The Truthful, The Trustworthy. Khadija is extremely impressed by Mohammad's honesty, his fair trade, plus by the stories her servant Maysarah, who accompanied Mohammad on a trade journey to Syria on Khadija's behalf, has told her. He has informed Khadija about the mysterious Christian monk, Nestor, and what he said to Maysarah when he saw Mohammad resting under a tree near his cell: ' "Who is the man beneath the tree?" asked the monk. "He is man of (the tribe) Quraish," said Maysarah, adding by way of explanation: "of the people who have the guardianship of the Sanctuary (Ka'aba)." "None other than a Proph
Kashif as i reported earlier is in Pakistan and in the male hostel. But it seems that most people wouldnt believe me. The reason being that he has confined himself to his quarters. Thats not a new thing though. We have seen him do that before so people all around believe me when i say he is here because he is here.
Kashif is back from his 'tour' of the United States of America. He says he liked it and also that it was the best ever.