Is medical profession becoming a sunset career -?

DEBATE

The commonest question asked to candidates entering the medical profession was ,”Why I chose to become a Doctor? “and the commonest answer used to be “I want to serve the humanity.” This was four decades back when I aspired to enter this noble profession full of noble professionals’–While valley More
…..... or fruitful error of judgement

Barren Infallibility

The bare knowledge of a skill or merely belonging to a particular profession and drawing salaries for work doesn’t a professional make, Prof. M.A.Sofi writes

To put into perspective the subtext of the title of this piece, it should help to quote the following words of David Butler:The function of an expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons.In our search for success and happiness, there is More
A long way to go......

HORIZONS

The problem is not rooted in politics, but in attitude, writes Dr Shoukat Khan

Nearly two and half decades ago while traveling back home from a remote village dispensary in a dilapidated bus I leafed through the torn pages of a left over newspaper. What I read made me almost to scream in joy. My friend had made it to IAS. For the next half an hour of my bus journey I kept thinking More
  • Kashmir

Omar asks SKIMS to advertise Director’s post

DANISH NABI

Srinagar, May 12: The Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, on Wednesday asked the management of Sher-e-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Soura to advertise its director’s post at national level. & More


  • Srinagar City

Mehran disappearance, police failure turns 2

M HYDERI

Srinagar, May 12: May 13, 2008 afternoon three-year-old Shahr-e-Khaas boy Mehran Latief Mir left his home to buy candies from a nearby shop but never returned. Has he been abducted, killed or is alive More



  • Jammu

‘Preserve state’s natural resources’

GK NEWS NETWORK

Poonch, May 12:  The Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah, has underscored the importance of eco-tourism for conservation and protection of state’s natural resorts and green wealth. “Tourist infrastructure More


  • South Asia

120-yr-old woman applies for Hajj

PRESS TRUST OF INDIA

Jaipur, May 12: Despite the vagaries of old age, the call of the divine proved irresistible for 120-year-old Munni Begum, who has filed an application with the Rajasthan Haj Welfare Society to go on the More


  • GK Business

Electricity plays hike and seek in Industrial estates

Unit holders incur losses worth lakhs of rupees

RABIA NOOR

Srinagar, May 12: Government claims on promoting industry not withstanding, most of the industrial estates in the Valley are facing unscheduled power cuts resulting in losses worth lakhs of rupees to the More


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