The writer is a graduate of King Edward Medical College (Class of 1967) and a distinguished ENT and Head and Neck surgeon. After completing his specialist training at Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, he returned to Pakistan in 1981 and headed the ENT Department at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, until 2003. He later joined Loyola University, Chicago, as a Professor on its teaching faculty, serving until 2017. He currently divides his time between Pakistan and the United States.