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A MAN OF IMPLACABLE WISDOM: PROFESSOR DR. FAISAL MASUD(1954-2019) - PART 5

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By Dr. Ali Madeeh Hashmi “A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial”                                  -  Arthur Schopenhauer In September, 2013, I was appointed Associate Professor of Psychiatry in King Edward. It was a promotion as well as validation for the three years I had put in at KEMU since my return from the USA in 2010. And it would never have happened if Faisal sahib had not been our Vice-Chancellor (the first permanent Vice-Chancellor since KE became a University in 2006). It would not be a stretch to say that it was Faisal sahib’s grand entrance into the Vice-Chancellor’s office at KE which finally started an ascent in KE’s fortunes. KEMU’s predecessor, King Edward Medical College with its venerable history and traditions had no equal in Pakistan; in fact in the entire region, since it is the 3rd oldest medical institution in the Indian subcontinent after Calcutta Medical College (established 1835) and Grant Medical College Mumbai (estab