KemUnited - The King Edward Medical University Blog

TWEETY TALKS !   By Haania Khan   W ith his love for crisp and white eastern-wear, the very straight and median “maang”, the toothbrush-y mustache, and that ever green, ever kind smile, that’s Tweety aka Javed Iqbal uncle for you. You may know him as the one guy who’d punctually and dutifully recite verses from the Holy Quran first thing in the morning or from the sharp tap on your desk when you are talking during class or that stern-ish look when you have just plugged in your ear-phones. A ppearances. There is always more to what meets the eye. How completely lost we are in our fussy little lives that we are completely unaware of who the person seated next to us really is. What’s their story? What are they beyond our superficial, meaningless interpretations of them?  So I decided to break the ice and approach this ‘ordinary’ prop, a back drop in “MY STORY”.

 -  Same Guy Artwork courtesy of Bilal Rehman " Are you watching closely? " Remember this from  The Prestige ? If you do, you should have watched closely henceforth and hitherto. You people must have shared memes about how you are a kind of person who notices everything but stays quite - because there is a trend around where everyone just loves to say that they are introverts, maybe because being called an introvert also entails that they must be some extraordinary talented  super-duper-outta-this-world genius dudes  whose hidden gifts aren't being expressed owing to their  shyness  and  maturity  that do not allow them to  show off . Coming back, if you were watching closely, you must have noticed quite a few things about yourself and people around you, here in this home of yours. KE  is different from other universities, medical or non medical in many aspects. First off, its  phenomenal people . They a...

By Dr. Ali Madeeh Hashmi "What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."               - TS Eliot In 2013, my family and I had been back in Lahore for 3 years. After much soul searching, we had finally taken the plunge in 2010 although a few months earlier we had watched in horror as gunmen had stormed the Ahmadiyya house of worship in Model Town Lahore massacring 94 people and injuring over a hundred others, a kilometer from my family’s house. Less than two months later and just a few weeks before we landed in Lahore, two suicide bombers blew themselves up the ‘Data darbar’, the shrine of one of Lahore’s patron saints, the mystic Abul Hassan Al-Hajveri killing fifty people and injuring more than two hundred. It reminded me of our move to the small Arkansas town which I finally left to come back home to Lahore. Jonesboro, Arkansas is a small farmin...

Dr. Salman Ahmad by Moeed Ahmed, Taroob Latef, Laiba Khalid, Unsa Athar, M. Junaid Alvi Master of All Trades, Jack of None Doctor. Guitarist. Singer. Author. Teacher. Cricketer. Actor. Ambassador. Salman Ahmad has done much and proven more. Graduate of King Edward (1988) with a “junoon” for music like no other, Salman Ahmad loved Physiology, hated Forensic, used to captain the King Edward cricket team, formed a band at KE “The Doctors’ League” and has almost single-handedly begun the trend of Sufi music in the current era. As spontaneous in his wit as he is eccentric in his appearance, Salman Ahmad sent the entire team into peals of laughter with anecdotes from his prof exams, some on record and many off it :P

Ayesha Saeed Malik 4th Year MBBS Hi there folks! I am back again with more dog tales more like FLASH tales. He is 7 months old now. A lot has happened since the last time I wrote about him. For example, how I overcame my animal fear, I don’t know if it’s only ‘my’ dog I have learnt to be not afraid of, or if this new earned courage extends to all animals…  Okay so this is from a very long time ago; my brother and father weren’t home and Flash was only just a babe, we had made a routine for him where we’d take him out around 6 or 7 in the evening, every day. Now, Flash stood alert in front of our main door as per his schedule, waiting for someone to come out and play with him. In those days, I was too afraid of him to have given ‘taking him out myself’ a thought but God damn those puppy dog eyes! So, I said my Darood Shareef and Ayat tul Qursi, opened the door and then closed it the very next instant because there he was, ready to jump up on me! ‘Yikes! What do I do ...

Usama Qamar 1st Year MBBS اندرون شہر کی تنگ گلیوں میں،چائے کے ہوٹلوں پر ،ایک بے  نتیجہ سیاسی گفتگو  کے بعد ،  لاہوری بزرگ بڑے فخر سے بتاتے ہیں کہ جب بھاٹی گیٹ کی ایک بڑھیا کو خواب میں جنت کی زیارت ہوئی  اور پھر فرشتوں نے پوچھا کہ بی اماں! جنت کیسی لگی تو ماں جی نے اک ٹھنڈی آہ بھری اور بولیں: "پتر  ! جنت تے بڑی سوہنی اے پر ۔۔۔۔۔۔۔۔ " پر کیا ماں جی؟؟ "پر لہور ،لہور اے ۔"   دسمبر کا مہینہ تھا ۔ لاہور شہر میں میرا پہلا دن ۔۔۔۔۔ ، بلکہ پہلی رات تھی ۔ بس داتا دربار کے سامنے رکی ۔ دس سال سکول ،دو سال کالج اور دو عدد  ایم-ڈی-کیٹ کا بوجھ اٹھائے میں بڑے اکرام سے بس سے اتارا گیا تھا ۔ سامان ابا جی سے اٹھوایا کہ آخر ہم نے اپنے ضلع میں انٹری ٹیسٹ ٹاپ کیا تھا لہذا  اتنی عزت تو ہمارا حق بنتا تھا ۔ ابھی بس سے اترے ہی تھے کہ ایک رکشے والا قریب آیا ۔ یہ وہ وقت تھا جب لاہور میں ہمیں پیش آنے والے حادثات کی ابتدا ہوئی تھی۔  ہم بچپن سے استانیوں سے سنتے آے تھے کہ بیٹا ! اردو میں ' ڑ ' سے کوئی لفظ شروع نہیں ہوتا ۔ لہذا ہمیں " ڑ  سے پہاڑ ...

WALKING BACK IN HISTORY Interview with Prof. Dr. Akhtar Khan Ex-Principal KEMC Taken By  Dr. Saira Afzal, Dr. Saira Tariq, Dr. M. Munir, Junaid Tariq,  A. Haseeb, Sidra Chishti, Shahbano Salman                                                   Professor Dr. M. Akhtar Khan is the most senior KEMCOLIAN, renowned for his honesty and dedication towards the field of Medicine and KEMU. He was the principal of KEMC from 1973 to 1979. He also remained chairman of board of studies, Punjab University. He was vice president of PMDC from 1976 to 1979. He is 95 years old and is witness to the ups and downs of medical profession in our country. Despite his old age, he is still in active practice with enthusiasm to provide hope and cure to patients. In addition to his services to KEMC (now KEMU), he also played key role in the establishment of S...

This Ramzan while you eat splendid food, lie in your comfy beds, your homes and offices regulated through central Air-conditioning, enjoying all the perks of freedom and liberty, Iftaar goals just remember that there are those KEMU hosteliites aka " Allah waale log "  who don't get to eat even a single paratha - the like of which has been unprecedented by me - at Sehri because there aren't enough chairs to sit on in the hall, not enough room to stand in and breathe at the same time. The struggle is real for us. It is like the amateur swimmers, who take, firstly, a deep breath in and then dive into the water. Same thing's done here. Let us look at the daily routine of these miserable creatures. Start from the time of the sight of moon. Ramzan commences. The month of forgiveness  They have a penchant for staying up late at night - about 1 or 2 am in the night. After this threshold time, they won't sleep because in an hour, Sehri time will...

Syed Hasan Mohi-ud-din Gilani (MD) They say "the children have the most inquisitive minds."  We, as firstulas, are the children of KE - or at least, that is what our seniors think of us. *sigh* SENIORS! I want to talk about their types but let's save that for later. From guiding us through stages and substages by giving us three-night, two-night and even one-night packages to make it through them, to luring us into believing that we need to chill and take-it-easy. From mocking us on our cluelessness about the use of H&E pencils to passing sarcastic remarks on our wishful drawings. They always keep saying to us "you know nothing Jon(iors) sno(t)." But who can blame them? We could never figure it out which pencil was basophilic and which one was eosinophilic, and the mystery remains unsolved. And their relationship advices -this is a topic in itself. Don't push me now. Their psychoanalysis of teachers is so perfect that we feel like they have been t...