“Morning and eveningSomeone waits at Matsushima!One-sided love.” — Matsuo Bashō Surgical training often feels like this haiku. A resident waits morning and evening — outside operating rooms, beside hospital beds, near the phone during call nights — longing not for romance, but for competence, recognition, and mastery. The relationship is painfully one-sided. Surgery demands everything:…

Could Iron Man Even Stand Up? — The Brutal Physics Behind the Suit Every time we watch Iron Man fly across the screen firing missiles, lasers, and sarcasm, one question quietly hides in the background: “How heavy is that thing… and how is Tony Stark not flattened like a sandwich inside it?” Let’s begin with…

On December 27, 2007, I was on call as a resident at Rawalpindi General Hospital — now known as Benazir Bhutto Hospital. That evening, the Casualty Medical Officer urgently called me to attend a case of firearm injury in the Emergency Room. I went with my senior resident. When we entered the E.R., there was…

In super specialities or as some people like to call them sub specialities e.g Orthopaedics, neurosurgery, plastic surgery, etc., it takes a lot of years to be an expert in the field. And as soon as you develop a rapport of a good surgeon or become good at it, its time to die. In super-specialties…

Maurice Muller is the father of modern day orthopaedics. He started the use of metallic screws, plates, nails and wires to fix the human bones. Ultimately, when his methods became famous, he established a proper research center in his hometown, DAVOS, devoted to improving his bone fixation techniques. The research center building itself look like…