Inside This Issue APMA Newsletter “A Visionary” Assalamalaikum & Welcome to the combined February & March Newsletter! There are reasons to imbalances in life. The polarity created by nature is to be neutralised by visionaries. We come from the most hostile place and yet able to create a difference for self and loved ones plus provide for our families in a way that is unimaginable to most back home. The reason of being blessed might be nature’s asking to help preserve the balance in life. Spare a thought about flood victims in Pakistan. The ravages it brought especially to children and sickness ensues till now. It’s often when time is not a healer but expression of increasing despair and loneliness. With immediate death toll of 2000 people, more than 2 million affected with loss of home and livelihood (equivalent to population of Australia), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon claimed the flood as the worst disaster he had ever seen. We as an organisation have a power to cultivate an effort. Care for people of the land, which with all its deficiencies is still ours …we need to be visionaries of strategies to help the impoverished with the trust bestowed on us from heavens. 23 March is celebrated as Qarardad-e-Pakistan (Pakistan resolution) day when people thought outside the cocoon and become the visionaries for Pakistan. They perhaps did not immediately achieve what they thought but surely made it clear what they had in mind! I dedicate this issue to philanthropists in Pakistan who work effortlessly to bring humanity in chaos and try bringing a change whatever little they can. They are indeed real visionaries of equality and fairness Rizwan Qureshi Editorial Inside this issue 1 Editorial 2 In focus 3 Member’s corner 4 Medical corner 5 Literature Corner Link of the month Humerus National Heritage 6 Travel guide 7 Famous Pakistan 8 Hikayaat Movie review Upcoming event Harf-e- Aakhir VOLUME 2 February/ March 2012 ISSUE 2&3 “A man’s worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations”Hazrat Ali (a.s.) Children share a meal surrounded by flood waters
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Inside This Issue
APMA Newsletter
“A Visionary” Assalamalaikum & Welcome to the combined February & March
Newsletter!
There are reasons to imbalances in life. The polarity created by nature
is to be neutralised by visionaries. We come from the most hostile place
and yet able to create a difference for self and loved ones plus provide
for our families in a way that is unimaginable to most back home.
The reason of being blessed might be nature’s asking to help preserve
the balance in life. Spare a thought about flood victims in Pakistan. The
ravages it brought especially to children and sickness ensues till now. It’s
often when time is not a healer but expression of increasing despair and
loneliness. With immediate death toll of 2000 people, more than 2 million
affected with loss of home and livelihood (equivalent to population of
Australia), UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon claimed the flood as the
worst disaster he had ever seen.
We as an organisation have a power to cultivate an effort. Care for
people of the land, which with all its deficiencies is still ours …we need to
be visionaries of strategies to help the impoverished with the trust
bestowed on us from heavens.
23 March is celebrated as Qarardad-e-Pakistan (Pakistan resolution) day
when people thought outside the cocoon and become the visionaries
for Pakistan. They perhaps did not immediately achieve what they
thought but surely made it clear what they had in mind!
I dedicate this issue to philanthropists in Pakistan who work effortlessly to
bring humanity in chaos and try bringing a change whatever little they
can. They are indeed real visionaries of equality and fairness
Rizwan Qureshi
Editorial
Inside this issue
1 Editorial
2 In focus
3 Member’s corner
4 Medical corner
5 Literature Corner
Link of the month
Humerus
National Heritage
6 Travel guide
7 Famous Pakistan
8 Hikayaat
Movie review
Upcoming event
Harf-e- Aakhir
VOLUME 2 February/ March 2012 ISSUE 2&3
“A man’s worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations”Hazrat Ali (a.s.)
Children share a meal surrounded
by flood waters
PAGE 2 AMPA NEWSLETTER
Dr Sayeed Khan
Be the change that you want to see in the world - M.K Gandhi
I was born in Agra, India (the city of the beautiful Taj Mahal) and am the
youngest of ten brothers and sisters. We migrated to Pakistan in 1968. My
childhood was quite unstable because of financial constrains usually imposed on
a migrant families
We moved many times between cities in Pakistan and I changed schools almost
every year. When I was in the 12th grade, our family was hit with tragedy when my
mother was killed in a bus accident in 1975. It was one of my mother’s wishes for
me to become a doctor and I started at Dow Medical College in Karachi,
Pakistan in 1976. By this time my older siblings had married or moved out of home
and I cared for my father who was quite elderly. During this time the situation in
Pakistan continued to deteriorate and in an effort to aspire change I entered into
student politics and joined the socialist revolutionary movement to challenge the
oppressive government of General Zia ul-Haq. Soon after, I was imprisoned for 6
months with many other political prisoners as a result of speaking out against the
government’s censorship of the media.
I finished my medical degree in 1983 and started pursuing a career in the surgical
field. The situation in Pakistan was unstable and was growing worse by the day.
I came to Australia in 1986 and managed to pass the AMC exams within a year
and started work in Sutherland Hospital as a surgical registrar. After 3 years of
hospital work I did some general practise work and fell in love with it. It was at this
time that I also married other love of my life, my lovely wife Ghazala.
I commenced my general practise career at Heathcote road Hammondville as a
solo practitioner in 1990. I have always been of the opinion that comprehensive
medical care can only be provided by a team therefore over the next twenty
years I developed a multidisciplinary medical facility at Hammondville with
numerous GP’s supported by nurses, physiotherapists, dentists and many other
allied health practitioners and specialists.
Apart from practice in Hammondville, two other large centres at Wattle Grove
and Carnes hill have been developed. I have been involved with teaching
medical students and registrars. At present we have vertically integrated
teaching practice with medical students, PGPPP, basic and advance registrars.
I feel very proud to be associated with Sydney South West GP Link, formerly
MDGP, and feel privileged to be part of a committed team that supports and
enhances general practice in Sydney South West.
I enjoy gardening, Indian Classical music, philosophy, politics and theatre.
I have three children, my eldest daughter is studying law, my younger daughter is
studying pharmacy from Sydney University and my son who is the youngest is in
year 7. As a family our greatest passions are travelling and volunteering in
charities.
I know I am very fortunate to have overcome hurdles to achieve many things;
however I feel that I can do much more and hope to continue to work towards
providing the best for the community
In focus
___________________________
I feel very proud to be
associated with Sydney
South West GP Link, formerly
MDGP, and feel privileged
to be part of a committed
team that supports and
enhances general practice
in Sydney South West. In
addition we have vertically
integrated teaching
practice with medical
students, PGPPP, basic and
advance registrars
___________________________
I was imprisoned for 6
months during Zia-ul- Haq
regime with many other
political prisoners as a
result of speaking out
against the government‟s
censorship of the media
in Pakistan
________________________
PAGE 3 APMA NEWSLETTER
Member’s Corner
Port Grand
Arts, culture and Food Street in Karachi
The newest addition to Karachi’s nightlife promises to offer visitors a world
of its own in an enclosed area cut off from the craziness of city life.
Port Grand expects to attract 4,000 to 5,000 people daily. Currently, 40
outlets are up and running and more are expected to open soon. The first
thing you notice once inside is the shopping mall that houses a number of
brands, including shops for gifts, clothes and accessories and books.
Towards the left of the mall was the much-talked about Napier’s Tavern.
With its historic architecture and fine dining, the lodge is expected to serve
as a setting for the city’s corporate crowd.
The lodge was built right under a one-hundred-year-old banyan tree where
Charles Napier is believed to have built a tavern. The builders used the
same stones and wood extracted from the demolished bridge to salvage
the heritage.
Further left, stretches the food enclave for a kilometre. Men, women and
children were strolling about the concrete path along the 19th century
Native Jetty Bridge that connects the Karachi Port Trust to Keamari.
The food enclave runs along the port where you can view the sea while
sitting on green benches lined across the fresh green turf. The three
spaced-apart metal barriers from the water could, however, be tempting
for adventurous children.
You can even see the cargo being loaded and unloaded from the ships
that arrive from all over the world. The food street ends close to a point
where you can see ships harboured at the KPT Boat Wharf. Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has provided double fencing around the complex
for security and privacy and KPT guards also patrol the bridge. “A lot of people thought this was going to be another Burns Road, but this is
a different cup of tea all together,” said Managing Director Shahid Firoz of
Grand Leisure Corporation. “We hope this project will lend a bit of
positivism to this city and country.”
Port Grand
Napier‟s Tavern
Food enclave along harbor
Food Street by night
Place to relax with family
PAGE 4 AMPA NEWSLETTER
Medical Corner
What’s in the ECG?
Contributed by Dr. Imran Kassam
ECG scenario: a 37 year old male who presents for a health check for insurance
purpose. He has no significant medical history. His ECG as follows.
ECG answer: ECG shows sinus beat has a short PR interval and a wide QRS
complex as a result of a delta wave which is the slurred upstroke after the P
wave.
Bypass tracts figure: Can conduct much faster than AV node due to lack of
decremental properties. Usually have much shorter refractory periods Preexcitation undiagnosed in up to 25% of patients who aborted sudden
cardiac arrest (SCA) secondary to VF.
Orthrodromic Wolff- Parkinson -White Syndrome (WPW): is usually initiated when
a beat conducts retrograde through the bypass tract. In this particular figure
the pathway is orthodromic. Antidromic pathway runs in the opposite direction
where a beat conducts antegrade via the AP(accessory pathway) and
conducts retrograde via the AV node.
All these pathways can be successfully localized and ablated with either
Radiofrequency or cryotherapy ablation techniques
Bypass tracts
Orthrodromic WPW
PAGE 5 APMA NEWSLETTER
Literature corner By Obaid Ullah Aleem
Contributed by Ghazala Khan
محبتوں کے یہ دریا اتر نہ جائیں کہیں جو دل گالب ہیں زخموں سے بھر نہ جائیں کہیں ابھی تو وعدہ و پیماں ہیں اور یہ حال اپنا وصال ہو تو خوشی سے ہی مر نہ جائیں کہیں
خواب اپنی آنکھوں کےیہ رنگ چہرے کے اور ہوا چلے کوئی ایسی بکھر نہ جائیں کہیں ...
جھلک رہا ہے جن آنکھوں سے اب وجود مرا آنکھیں ہائے یہ آنکھیں مکر نہ جائیں کہیں
Link of the month
Mohyeddin reads Patras “Marhoom ke yaad main”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZt--8FfA5U
Humerus
No“body” is above law in Pakistan!
National Heritage Government College University, Lahore
(Estd. 1864)
Previously called Government College Lahore it is a co-
educational public University located on the
Mall in Lahore, Pakistan. Although the college was granted the
status of university by the Pakistan Government in 2002, the
word college is still retained in the name for historical reasons
and also because of the wide recognition of the
name Government College in Pakistan. The University
offers bachelors, Master's, and Ph.D. degrees in a variety of
disciplines. The university currently has more than 6000 students
and 323 faculty members and is ranked at No.6 by HEC in
General category. Alumni of Government College are
called Ravians which is derived from the name of the
magazine "Ravi”.
Government College University
Government College Lahore in 1880s
Under the British Raj the college was opened on 1 January 1864
in a portion of the Palace of Raja Dhyan Singh Haveli. The
institution was affiliated with the University of Calcutta for
examination. Along with the establishment of the
college, Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner (professor of Arabic and
Islamic Law at King's College in London) was nominated as
principal of college. He later was instrumental in the foundation
of Punjab University, Lahore in 1882. The first class consisted of 9
students, all of whom matriculated from Calcutta University. In
April 1871, the college moved to its present site. In 1996, it
received autonomous status; on 9 September 2002, it became
a university. Eric C. Dickinson became its Principal in the 1940s.