DR MUHAMMAD SHOAIB MUKHTAR
Roman physician addressing an audience beneath a classical theatre arch
IV · THE AMPHITHEATRE, DR. DARD

The mascot with a medical degree

Dard means pain. Dr. Dard means war on it.

Dr. Dard is my public-health project: a playful, clinically-informed rehab-specialist character who teaches Pakistan about joint pain, posture, and recovery, in the language people actually speak, on the platforms where they actually scroll. Every reel finds the hidden culprit behind a familiar pain: the wallet pressing a nerve, the mattress bending a spine, the small muscle framing the disc for its crime.

It is a separate stage from my clinical practice, but the medicine behind every joke is real.

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