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MRCP II MADE EASY

2010-08-22T19:21:20Z

I stumbled on this brilliant book when I was a Post Graduate MD student at AIIMS. It is written by a Harvard physician who is also a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of London ( MRCP ). I understand that the Indian Medical Council will be helping us develope our undergraduate Medical system. Why don’t we use the MRCP as it is recognised internationally including the IMC nowadays. The book is easy to read more like a novel by Sherlock Holmes than a textbook and help me pass the DNB. Another option is the MRCP ( Ireland ). We can invite them like Chennai and become a centre to host these examinations saving revenue and living to the King’s proclaimation that our primary goal is the happiness of the citizens. As I understand it the examination will save a great deal of revenue and help us develope our infrastructure as most of my Professors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences are qualified by the MRCP. The FRCP comes automatically after 5 years but that is just a formality. This can be the standard by which we allow foreign physicians to work in our esteemed nation. Having returned, I am saddened by the lack of publications by our own medical colleagues in International journals as we are just the testing ground and the research subjects of many pharmaceutical multinationals. We are being used and a watchdog system should be set up. In this manner we will be able to do it the Bhutanese way which is that of compromise, compassion and professionalism. The sovereignty of our medical and Health Ministry will also be independent as we will not be piggybaging on another country. This is very important for the long term infrastructure developement of our Independent Royalty. It will also allow us to prosecute litigation of negligience from other nationals working as doctors with impunity. This is merely my view as a loyal servant to the Royal Household of Bhutan which has a long history of being uniqely independent of the rest of the region. On the other hand, this is just my view as I am merely a physician. The book by itself is written in the style of House MD and for the layman. My children and wife loves it. Good luck and I hope that this will be useful to tourists as well as Medical Students and nurses. Enjoy the stories and laugh. It is genius in the way he interlaces medical facts with tales making it a mnemonic and helping me pass the Diplomate of National Boards ( in Internal Medicine ) . Have fun and long live the king of Buthan.

Looking for an agent

2010-08-03T16:48:01Z

Hi all,

I am looking for a local agent/partner to participate in a SIM card tender in Bhutan Telecom. Please contact me for further details. My email is synctwok @ gmail.com.

Thanks.

Human Rights in Bhutan???

2007-08-17T21:50:51Z

EVery citizen in Bhutan live in fear of arrest and torture every day. No one has any courage to speak of against government. Even the people who write articles in this forum know about the wickedness of the government but they are afraid to speak our against. Judiciary system of Bhutan functions under the direct command of King, which has been never known to declare any government action unlawful. Provision for defense attorneys, lawyers, solicitors and jury trial are non-existent. All the Bhutanese citizens, including National Assembly members lose their nationality or face capital punishment if they criticize the King and his government. The King and his government are above law and supreme in the legal system.
Even viewing of television was prohibited until 1999. There is no newspaper except one weekly bulletin owned by the government and the transparency on the government action is non-existent. All media are used for only campaigning the government propaganda. They publish and broadcast only what the government wants the people to read, hear and know.

There is no official guarantee for the protection of citizens’ human rights. The Bhutanese people are not secure and do not enjoy even the basic human rights.

Driglam Namza
Driglam Namza, an ancient code of social etiquette of the western Bhutanese which dictates how to eat, how to sit, how to talk, how to dress or how to bow before the authority, and what hair style to adopt, was made mandatory to all the Bhutanese despite their cultural diversity. Through the village headmen, Driglam Namza was imposed on the masses. Any failure to observe the code was punishable by a week imprisonment or a fine.

Apwangdrugay’s third party - IDEAS WELCOME

2007-07-31T16:31:54Z

here’s junior moderator’s latest crazy idea
lets form a party on this website. we’ll draft our own manfesto, have our own policies and we can also have members standing for party posts. although not a real party it will be nice to see whether we have what it takes to form a party
how about some names for the party?
then we will have some sppeches and we will choose a leader
help make this successful

Our Ministers - Our future Political Leaders??? When are they planning to Resign?

2007-07-14T20:44:36Z

With the talk of politics everwhere one goes it remains to be seen when our ministers who claim, by not retiring but planning on participating in next year’s election, are our leaders in the democractic Bhutan will finally resign and take their rightful place. What they are doing now makes me recall what they did in December 2003 - leaders taking the back seat. No bhutanese will forget what happened that year. Our ministers, so called our leaders, at Dochula bid farewell to HM the 4th Druk Gyalpo to lead our army and militias against the ULFAs. While HM risked his life for the bhutanese people our ministers remained within the confinement of the secured residents at the capital.

Today when our young aspiring leaders of tomorrow have sacrified and risked what little they have to participate in the coming democracy elections our ministers, most of whom earlier said politics was not of their interest, do not want to lose power and if they had their way would like to hold on to their ministership till the election day.

When given the power by HM to choose the leaders we want for a democractic Bhutan should we choose leaders with qualities our present ministers pose? We really have to make the correct decision when entrusted with the power to choose the leaders for a better Bhutan for our children.

money is everything. At least to me, How do you make it?

2009-03-18T08:28:54Z

First off I want to say hello to everyone and I’m excited to be here.

Do You want to make a good amount of money online and You’ve tried a few things and have gotten nowhere so far?

Do you want to know if this is how it was for some of you guys and what you did thay maid you go from nothing to everything or atleast from nothing to some success.
Someone is making a lot of money on the adult industry. Why not you?

Money IS everything. Atleast to me. How do you make it?
I am a supervior of marketing so I get questioned a lot about “What do you want to do with your life?” or “what do you want to be?” My response is whatever makes the most money. I have come across some people who think that I can be serious. They say that money wont make you happy. I don’t believe that. Everything that i don’t like about my current situation, could be solved or at least greatly improved with money.

Here is one example of what I’m talking about:

“You can’t buy friends.”
-That is true, but people would want to be with me more if we could go out and do things that are fun, instead of just sitting around at someones house.

Something else that I don’t agree with, being that I’m a college student. I don’t like the question, “what are you going to major in?” My reason is, all of the majors that I am smart enough to persue don’t make as much money as I would like to one day have. My feeling is that college is setting you up to enter a career and earn a set range for a salary for the rest of your time in that career. I do not like that idea. Maybe I’m wrong here, but according to what I’ve said, wouldn’t the jobs with the best chance to gain substantial amounts of money(although risky) be artists, musicians, actors, models, authors, and things like that? Maybe something that has to do with business if you have a good enough idea?

What do you think about my point of view?

Do you have any pointers for making the most amount of money possible

Do You want to make a good amount of money online and You’ve tried a few things and have gotten nowhere so far?

I look forward to talking to everyone.

goonlinetv03

Religious Freedom!

2009-01-07T14:37:15Z

My name is Samuel Adair. I am from South Africa. I was just curious as to the degree of religious freedom that is allowed in your country. I would really like to get a perspective from someone who lives in Bhutan. I know that the countries official religion is buddism, but I was wondering if there were any out there that practiced Christianity. I would appreciate any responses.

Kaadinchey La

are we reciest???

2008-12-16T12:54:13Z

America was in war for more than a decade because of racism, Gremans are still hated by Jews for their brutal act and United Kingdom used Asian and African as their belongings. Today the world has changed, Jews have their own country, Barack Obama is the new president and United Kingdon has the second largest Indian population after India. These big countries have all suffered, many thousand lost their lives and still hundreds suffering till today. BBC interviewed an army General, who was Hitler’s personal guard back than and he reminisces the time when he burnt down hundreds of women and children just because they were Jews. He cried on the camera for each statement he gave and just one week from the interview he died. Remember the black man who said “Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destrous community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers.” You guessed it right…his name is Dr. Martin Luther King.
Lets face the fact, we are a small country with just a handful of people and we follow Buddhism. We are taught to be compassionate, pray for others and restrain any wrong doings that will hurt the other party. Just some years ago we were at wars and even today we cant be ignorant about the terrorism activities in our country. Are we divided despite His Majesties simple vision of One Country, One People. Think it over Bhutanese people where we are heading towards. Word like “Ngalong” “Sharchop” “Jaga” “Ngolope” are all misleading and very irrational. Most amazing is small children’s using these words, who taught them these? I am sure not their teachers. I have a friend and her Mom is working with one of the schools in Thimphu. She is a lhotsham teacher teaching for class 4 students. She was called “Jaga” by two class three students who are very young for punishing them. How would she feel and how would you feel? Lets make a change, lets unite together, lets give a simple gift to our King and show him that we really are happy. Tashi Delek

Bhutanese Medals & DEcorations

2008-07-07T11:12:12Z

I wonder if there is anyone out there who has an interest in and knowledge of Bhutan’s system of honours, awards and medals?

Information is difficult to come by, so the following is all I have been able to find so far:

The Royal Order of Bhutan: founded by King Jigme Dorji Wangchuk in 1966. Awarded in three classes and one medal.
Druk Wangyel (Great Victory of the Thunder Dragon): instituted by King Jigme Singye Wangchuck in 1985 as the country’s highest national award (postnominal=DWG).
Druk Yuelgyel (Victory of the Thunder Dragon): the highest military medal of honour awarded for outstanding dedication, loyalty and commitment (postnominal=DYG).
Druk Thuksey (Son of the Heart of the Thunder Dragon): instituted by King Jigme Singye Wangchuck on 2nd June 1999 as the highest individual civilian decoration and awarded for outstanding services to “Tsa-Wa-Sum”, the king, country and the people.
Drakpoi Wangyel: medal of honour awarded to members of the Royal Bhutan Army and the Royal Bhutan Police (post nominal=DW).
Drakpoi Thuksey: a meritorious service medal awarded to members of the Royal Bhutan Army, Royal Bodyguard, National Militia, Royal Bhutan Police, and Forest Guards and the uniformed civilian services to reward services to maintaining national security (post nominal=DT).
Drakpoi Khorlo: a meritorious service medal awarded to members of the Royal Bhutan Police and to reward services to maintaining law and order (post nominal=DK).

If there is anyone who can provide more detailed information as to the exact names, translation into English, conditions for award, classes, etc, I would welcome hearing from you at the following e-mail address:
susuhanan at hotmail dot co dot uk

With sincere thanks and best wishes,
C J Buyers

Thank you RGOB

2007-11-15T22:06:29Z

Living in refugee camps didn’t bothered me coz all knew was only refugee camp. Barefoot and nakedness didn’t affect me coz I don’t know how it feels to be with shoes and clothes. Hunger has nothing to do me coz I have been eating stinking rice my whole life. Taste of sitting on bench in school, I have not even dreamed of it. But my gratitudes to RGOB that just coz of you now I am going to a country where milk and honey is flowing.

Thank you Bhutan for evicting my parent coz I don’t remember what you did. Although you raped my mom and my aunt I don’t remember. May be my dad is still in Bhutan as high ranking officer. But coz of your barbaric behavior, door like USA has opened for me where I am going with respect and dignity as human being. I am so proud that I don’t have to go back to Bhutan where southerners are treated like slaves.

But I will surely come back to Bhutan not to fight agianst my country but as tourist. I will visit my father’s birth places. May be I will even go and see spot where my mom, my aunty and sisters were raped.
Good luck Bhutan.