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Peter Pan Syndrome and Pakistani Males – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #803 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #803 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: Victoria Rain Google Images Photo Credit: Mohamed Abdelghaffar Peter Pan syndrome refers to a psychological condition or behavioral pattern in which an individual, typically a male, refuses or struggles to mature and take on adult responsibilities. The term is derived from J.M. Barrie's character Peter Pan, a boy who never grows up and remains in a state of perpetual youth in the imaginary ‘Neverland’. People with Peter Pan syndrome often exhibit a reluctance or inability to embrace the responsibilities and challenges of adulthood. They may avoid com...

Harnessing the Energy of Youth – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #802 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #802 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: Ahmad Zakaria Photo Credit: Mahmoud Gamal Photo Credit: Suraphat Nuea-on Last Saturday evening, I was invited as chief guest at a residential college on the passing out of their class 12. The college admits students in grade 6 only, and then they live there for seven years and pass out after completing class 12 – FSc. The entire student body was present in the auditorium along with their teachers. The auditorium environment was live with excitement, emotions, and above all, palpable energy. I am still wondering if we, the elders, parents, and teachers are do...

We Who Do Not Know Chat GPT – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #801 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #801 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: Artem Podrez Photo Credit: Matheus Bertelli Quite recently, the world has been abuzz with Chat GPT, first GPT3 and then more powerful GPT4. The onslaught of talks, comments, ideas, forecasts, and possibilities is so fierce that it looks like everything will be displaced by the category 5 cyclone of GPT; of course, more versions shall keep coming.  It is being forecasted that many, if not most, jobs will be lost to GPT. Since GPT4 is also self-learning, so its capability shall keep enhancing with time. Even now, experiments have shown its equivalence to hum...

Peer Pressure – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #800 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #800 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: Huy Chien Tran Photo Credit: Ivan Samkov Photo Credit: cottonbro studio Peer pressure refers to the influence exerted by a person's peers or social group to conform to certain behaviors, values, or attitudes. It can be both direct, through explicit requests or demands, or indirect, through perceived social norms or expectations within a group. The children get exposed to peer pressure as soon as they start interacting with other children, at very tender ages. School exposure is the first major avenue of facing, feeling, and negotiating with the peer pressure in its many aspe...

Management Consulting in Pakistan – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #799 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #799 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: cottonbro studio Photo Credit: Kampus Production Photo Credit: Victoria Rain I had been thinking of writing on this topic for quite some time, but other topics kept taking priority somehow. It is here now finally. It is an important topic because the huge body of evidence shows that independent consultants have been adding very significant value to organizations and individuals since so many decades. Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Michael Porter, Marshall Goldsmith did not achieve world fame for doing nothing. Consultancies are of several types; firms like KP...

Ethics and Pharmaceutical Industry – Sum Up – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #798 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #798 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: cottonbro studio Photo Credit: Karolina Grabowska Photo Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko Several posts were published under this topic, but each post was complete in itself. This is the last post. Sum Up Let us start with a question. Pharmaceutical business is like any other business, why should there be so much emphasis on ethics here? There are two responses to this. One, two businesses touch lives life like no other business; food and drugs. Food gives health and bad food can give disease, which may require treatment. Generally, an imminent threat...

Ethics and Pharmaceutical Industry – Marketing – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #797 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #797 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Photo Credit: Ivan Samkov Photo Credit: Kindel Media Several posts shall be published under this topic, but each post shall be complete in itself. Marketing Pharmaceutical Industry is highly competitive world over, and the same is the case in Pakistan. There are around 750 manufacturing companies, and an uncounted number of marketing companies which are generating over 700 billion rupees of market sales. Government and institutional buying are over and above this.  Unlike many other countries, Pakistan pharma market is highly unevenly distributed. Ove...

Ethics and Pharmaceutical Industry – Quality – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #796 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #796 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Google Images Google Images Google Images Several posts shall be published under this topic, but each post shall be complete in itself. Quality Providing quality drugs is the ethical, moral, and legal responsibility of the pharma companies, which they must fulfill in letter and spirit. ‘Letter’ is the detailed documentation as evidence that all involved have done their part responsibly; spirit is the designing of processes, procedures, and trainings to ensure and reinforce quality concepts and practices. USFDA states, “Pharmaceutical quality is the foundatio...

Ethics and Pharmaceutical Industry – Product Development and Production – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #795 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #795 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Google Images Google Images Google Images Several posts shall be published under this topic, but each post shall be complete in itself. Production Production comes next to product development. Formulations are developed and tested for optimization of various excipient to ensure maximum bioavailability. Bioavailability means how much of the given drug gets into the blood after absorption, from where it is distributed to various tissues. It is easy to understand that injections have 100% bioavailability, because these are directly (i...

Ethics and Pharmaceutical Industry – Product Safety – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #794 Dear Colleagues!  This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #794 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans welcome 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. Google Images Google Images Google Images Several posts shall be published under this topic, but each post shall be complete in itself. Product Safety Cases Product development is the starting point from where the industry starts business because they must have a product to sell. In trade, the formulations and recipes are kept secret, and that is how pharmaceuticals started. They did not divulge what the product contained but made big claims about it. Some vintage posters gleaned from internet show clearly the type of hyped claims that were made....