About Dr. Afaq Ahmad Qureshi
Physician, writer, broadcaster, journalist, translator, free lance writer, poet, political and social analyst and critic. Writes plays and features for electronic media, interested in numerous things from sociology to medicine to history and art. interest in books and internet, writes for http://www.blogcritic.com also; editor for an internet journal; at http://twitter.com/dr_afaqaq.
When I talked to Alice her son James was not home. I inquired about him and I came to know that as he is 19 now he was uncomfortable living with his mother so he has gone to another city … Continue reading →
A worldview about the people of the world we live in. The term “empty” does not constitute a taboo of any kind. Continue reading →
(Names and places are real like poverty. In one US$ you get approximately 100 rupees). Tufail and Razia got married some 30 years ago. At that time they lived in Kasur. They both belonged to poor families and when I … Continue reading →
A resume of life in general in Pakistan as observed in October 2017. Continue reading →
1. Photography: Use the lens to capture the following. A bicycle or its parts. Any other machine / machinery parts are also FP worthy. So take heed and give importance to the old parts lying in and around your dwelling. … Continue reading →
Posted in Culture, education, fiction, Freshly Pressed, Literature
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Tagged American, art, blog, blogs, Crafts, Flowers, Freshly Pressed, manual, satire, United States, Wordpress
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I do not make ‘to do’ lists. They scare me as I know I would not be able to place tick marks on at least 90% of the listed items. Remaining 10% to me are never so important and therefore … Continue reading →
Posted in Disease, Literature, Relationship, relationships, Uncategorized
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Tagged ammi, Appliances, breakfast, brunch, coffee, cooking, death, food, fresh, funny, getting up, health, holiday morning, kitchen, lazy morning, life, Literature, lunch, Maid, mom, mother, Newspaper, noise, sleep, sounds of kitchen, Tap water, Tea, to-do-list, tragedy, Urdu, war-on-terror, Washing machine, writing
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A life experience. Headaches are pretty common on getting up in the morning. An account of a morning like that and what happened to the author on that day. Continue reading →
Posted in Disease, Headache, Migraine, Pain, Uncategorized
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Tagged Aspirin, autobiography, Bhai, Bursting, Diazepam, dull ache, early morning, excruciating pain, Hamza, headache, life, Literature, migraine, morning, pain, painkillers, satire, Splitting headache, Tea, Tearing, Urdu, Valium
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Dengue fever can become very serious if the element of hemorrhage sets in. If the following symptoms are observed, take immediate steps. SYMPTOMS: 1. Abdominal pain 2. Persistent vomitting 3. Weakness, increasing sleepiness 4. Cold sweats 5. Shortness of breath … Continue reading →
Posted in CurrentAffairs, Dengue Fever, Lahore, Pain, Pakistan, Viral fever
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Tagged abdominal pain, Dengue, Dengue-fever, fatal, Haemorrhage, Hemorrhage, Lahore, News, Pakistan, red spots, temperature, Vomitting
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A person with neck swelling has enlargement of the soft tissues that covers the neck. A neck swelling can also occur as accumulation of fluid, lymph, or inflammatory, or tumor cells in an area under the skin of the neck. … Continue reading →
Posted in Blood cancer, Disease, education, Health, Lymph Nodes, Neck Swelling, Thyroid disorder, Uncategorized
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Tagged aspiration, benign, biopsy, Blood, blood cancer, causes of neck swelling, cervical, common, cyst, disease, excision biopsy, fine needle aspiration, fluid, gland, goitre, hodgkin disease, hodgkin's disease, hormones, inflammation, leukemia, lipoma, lymph gland, lymph node, lymphoma, malignant, Neck, saliva, salivary glands, Sonography, surgery, swelling, T3, T4, TB, Thyroid, TSH, tuberculosis, Ultrasound, Ultrasound of neck
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A radioisotope scan (also known as a nuclear medicine test) uses a small amount of radioactivity to produce pictures on a special camera. The radioactive dose is usually injected into a vein in your hand or arm. The radioactivity circulating … Continue reading →
Posted in education, Health, Isotope scan, Medicine, Nuclear medicine, Radiation
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Tagged Bone scan, Cardiac scn, Gamma camera, Gamma ray, health, Iodine, nuclear medicine, Positron emission tomography, Radiation, Radioactive decay, radioactivity, radionuclide, Thallium, Thyroid, Tissue (biology)
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