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Healthcare Landscape in Pakistan – Diagnostic Laboratories – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #985 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #985 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Unknown Credit: Pavel Danilyuk Credit: Thirdman Diagnostic labs have become an integral part of medical treatment. Unlike previous times, when few labs did manual testing and the only imaging available was x-ray, the diagnostic facilities have come a long way. Along with this development, the doctors’ dependence on lab tests has increased to the extent where almost 100 percent patients are prescribed multiple tests. While it has improved clinical outcomes, it has also added to the cost of medical treatment hugely.  In this blogpost, I shall explore the status of medical diagnostic labs in Pakistan. National Laboratory Policy...

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...