SKIMS An Island of Tertiary care

ON 5TH DAY OF DECEMBER 2011, SKIMS, SRINAGAR CELEBRATES ITS 29TH ANNUAL DAY

EXCELLENCE By Rehana Akhter

RETROSPECTSKIMS was setup, almost three decades back,  with the dream of its founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah to save people in the state from expensive medical treatment outside the state. Since then SKIMS has come a long way. It was commissioned in 1982 as one of the premier More

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Promoted Prescription

THOSE WHO PRESCRIBE DRUGS TO HAVE MONETARY BENEFITS ARE BRINGING SLUR TO THE PROFESSION

MEDICAL ETHICS By Altaf Khan

It was really a painful remark made by a doctor: “Doctors were once called messiahs”. When I asked why he used past tense he went like this: “There was a time when doctors like Ali Jan would never allow a patient to visit a diagnostic centre unless he himself was satisfied with the facilities there More

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HALITOSIS: The BAD Breath

It’s A Social Embarrassment That Even Affects Relations

DISCOMFITURE By Prof. Mohammad Sultan Khuroo

Bad smell emitted or expulsed from any part and/or orifice of human body is a major social embarrassment. Many a time this phenomenon shakes apart ordered families. Bollywood comedy “Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge” depicts this so well when avuncular Chachaji’s (Paresh Rawal; an `unwanted’ relative from Gorakhpur More

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