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Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #322 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . [Quote] “Maria Wislawa Anna Szymborska was born on 2 July 1923 in  Prowent , Poland (now part of  Kórnik , Poland), the second daughter [8]  of Wincenty Szymborski and Anna (née Rottermund) Szymborska. Her father was at that time the  steward  of Count  Władysław Zamoyski , a Polish patriot and  charitable   patron . After the death of Count Zamoyski in 1924, her family moved to  Toruń , and in 1931 to  Kraków , where she lived and worked until her death in early 2012. Szymborska was awarded the 1996  Nobel Prize in Literature  "for poetry that with  ironic precision  allows the historical and biological context to come to light in fr

Ramadan – the Social Aspect – Blog Post #321 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #321 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Ramadan Kareem The holy Ramadan of 1441AH has just started. I pray that Allah Protects all of us from the current threat of COVID19, and Allah Gives us ‘taufeeq’ to fast in its true spirit, clean our souls from the dust of sins and wrongdoings, and make amends to become better persons. Aameen. I shall not talk about the religious aspects of Ramadan; I am not qualified to do so. I would rather talk about the social aspects and would like to take you down memory lane to the old times. Ramadan has been a special part of our social landscape for hundreds of years, I guess.

Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices in Pakistan Part III – Blog Post #320 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #320 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here .  Conclusion “ The researcher has concluded the overall results and found that both doctors and pharmaceutical companies are equally responsible for unethical drug promotion practices in Pakistan. But most important and interesting findings are, basically pharmaceutical companies are responsible for initiating these unethical drug practices in Pakistan but now in continuation of these practices the doctor’s community is actually responsible for these unethical drug promotion practices in Pakistan. Now the doctors have become demanding and pharmace

Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices in Pakistan Part II – Blog Post #319 by Asrar Qureshi Dear Colleagues!  This is Pharma Veterans Blog Post #319 . Pharma Veterans welcomes sharing of knowledge and wisdom by Veterans for the benefit of Community at large . Pharma Veterans Blog  is published by Asrar Qureshi on WordPress , the top blog site. Please email to asrar@asrarqureshi.com for publishing your contributions here . Let us deal with the question of Ethics first, before we go further. The dictionary definition of Unethical says: -        Lacking moral principles, not adhering to proper rules of conduct -        Not in accordance with the standards of a profession Business definition in my view should be: -        Getting undue advantage over competitors through misuse of resources -        Disrupting the rules of level playing field for all I believe we are unnecessarily stuck with a set of activities referred to as Unethical, while we accept some