And here I am back………after many days since the last piece of my memories……do I have anything new now? Yes, I am back with one of my dreams. I am trying to make this dream true, but I am not sure if I would be able to do so. The dream I am busy these days is organizing the "Association of Afghan Family Medicine".The association entered to my thoughts when I was in the medical school. I entered the medical school with so many problems (mainly of burocracy) and finished it with many more difficulties. In the medical school I was always reading old foreign journals. I did not have access to new journals, but still I was happy if got an old one. Reading from foreign medical journals and from foreign medical associations, I was feeling sad for my own country. We had no journal inside our country, and the country had no medical association. Outside the country, no one recognized our medical school and no one accepted our degree. I was always dreaming I would establish a medical association, a centre of excellence, the association that would struggle to improve the quality of our medical education and fight against the bad criticism we were facing.
When I entered residency program I got to know young motivated colleagues who had the same thought I had. We decided to bring our association out of our thoughts and give it a real physical appearance. But encountered a surprising problem; I found that the distance between our thoughts and our practical work was too much. When we sat and talked, we had wonderful speech and lovely thought, but when we had to practically do something we were lazy. Some of our colleagues thought that the idea was very big and we were too small for it. However I loved the thought and wanted to give it physical appearance. So as a first step I made a website, http://www.afdocs.bravehost.com/ the response to the website was different; some were supportive and some people thought it a funny joke. There was not much help, ……….so I finally thought I will give up, and I did so. Letter on we were about to graduate from the residency program, and we were all thinking that we should have a link with each other, as the result the thought of association again came to the minds. We had many meetings and again had the lovely speech about the association, but in practice we were again very lazy. Maybe we were not so much lazy, but the difficulties we had did not allow us to get busy in something that had no physical profit for us in short term. And so we graduated, and scattered in four parts of the country. A year letter we came back to each other by chance. I again proposed the association, and one of old colleagues said "It is a lovely idea, but I don’t know why we don’t have much interest". And this time I promised that with any price I will work for the association. So I spent days to make a draft to organize it and I finally yesterday I came with some papers. As I finished the draft and the 3 months work plan, I was so happy…..so went to a net café and emailed to friends. Here now I am waiting for the responses……I am sure I will get supportive feedbacks, but I am also waiting for funny jokes. I don’t know what will happen after this…….I hope I will get it done, and I hope this time we wont be lazy.
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