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First of its kind Cancer surgery performed at SDH Keller - SACHNEWS “Avoid using Kangri close to your body to save from cancer: Plastic surgeon Dr Abid Saleem” Sachnews Jammu Kashmir Bilal Habib Shopian, July 10: A first of its kind cancer surgery was performed at Sub District Hospital Keller in South Kashmir’s Shopian district on Monday. The surgery was condu...

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Surgery on Kangri cancer patient performed at SDH Keller Shopian, July 10 : Doctors in South Kashmir’s Shopian district have performed a first of its kind cancer surgery at a peripheral level.The surgery was performed at Sub district Hospital Keller on a patient suffering from Kangri Cancer of the right thigh.The team of doctors included Dr Abid Sal...

Life of a doctor......

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Doctor’s 35-hr shift on 8 bananas, a toilet in nearby cafe Doctors in Delhi went on strike asking for security, fixed hours and basic equipment. The Indian Express tracks 4 doctors in 4 very different hospitals to check on the complaints.

The men and women of this noble profession have sacrificed their personal lives to be the crusaders of God’s own work. They have been a perpetual symbol of hope ushering in the dawn of relief for the sick. The society owes a heavy debt to these people for whom no amount of thanks would suffice, for their smile through an ocean of hard work and draining experiences, is worth a thousand suns. Here is wishing all the Doctors a very Happy Doctors' Day!!

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Virtues and Blessings of Ramadan Virtues of the month of rewards are known to most Muslims. The biggest of all is that Allah has said that fasting is for Him and He will reward it. He said, as reported in a Hadith Qudsee: “…except for fasting which is only for My sake, and I will reward him for it.” [Al-Bukhaari, [...]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3479162/Heartbreaking-moment-doctor-breaks-tears-stress-busy-care-father.html

Overworked doctor breaks down in tears recounting her day in the life Dr Salwa Malik, 31, is reduced to tears while recounting a day-in-the-life to the BBC show Inside Out. Two weeks after the interview the overworked doctor collapsed with stress and exhaustion.

20 years on, this 52-year-old Munnabhai is attempting to pass MBBS, threatens to end his life

Posted on: Feb 23, 2016 06:00 PM IST | Updated on: Feb 23, 2016 06:10 PM IST

In a bizarre case, a medical aspirant from Darbhanga Medical College (DMC), Bihar, has been trying to pass the MBBS examination for the past 20 years and has not yet succeeded.
The man named Kapil Dev Chaudhary has been threatening his principal to pass him everytime.
20 years on, this 52-year-old Munnabhai is attempting to pass MBBS, threatens to end his life

Kapil, 52-years-old, is a second year medical student in DMC.
Everytime Kapil writes the examination, he messages his principal to pass him, but despite repeated appeals, when the principal did not pay heed to him, he threatened to end his life.
In a text message to DMC principal, Kapil wrote, "I wanted to become a doctor and serve the nation. Therefore, he should be get pass marks in the paper."
He also wrote that because he comes from a Dalit background. He reminded the teacher that he will be rewarded by God if he passes him. Therefore, the authorities should help him.
At the end, when all his appeals were rejected, he threatened to commit su***de.
According to college records, Kapil Dev Chaudhary was enrolled as an MBBS student in the year 1995.
Also, a police case has been registered against Kapil and after his statements are recorded, probe will begin further.

I Am Proud To Be A Doctor, Are You?

I must admit to the fact that, I wanted to become a doctor because I always felt that I should help others. I also realised later that one has to make sacrifices (devote time, study hard, bycott pleasures, have to be alone for a long time).

However, finally, what was rewarding:
a) Sense of satisfaction and happiness when a patient got cured
b) The show of gratefulness by those who got cured and their attendants
c) Increase in number of patients on spread of message about doctor's competence through a word of mouth

The fame and wealth were the consequences but not the goal.

When I compare medical profession with other professions. The attitude to serve the society, except for a small group like army, teachers, artists, etc. I don't feel is present. People want to be IAS to capture power. They think that IAS is the king. S/He is all powerful and can make money. Many of them became IAS because could not clear Medical entrance. Same is with politicians. I have closely watched Civil servants. They think the world is on their feet. They think people respect them. However, to be honest, people oblige/please/salute/gift them to get favours or escape punishment. To disown their own misdeeds write IAS (I Am Sorry) in advance after their names. Themselves, in addition to usual hefty bribe, also ask for 'petty' favours from industrialists and all like free air tickets, free match tickets, hotel stay, free dinners, chauffeur driven cars to move around in the cities they are visiting. They have got so many big fishes caught in their nets that those fishes can easily splurge money. They use their network to any IAS visiting to their area of control. Provide them with all facilities like free hotel stay, free dinners, chauffeur driven cars to move around and when they visit they themselves enjoy similar facilities (You scratch my back, I will scratch yours). Many of the policies, plans or programs made by them are to make money for themselves by hook or crook. Thousands of crores have been spent on Ganges to clean it but it could never be cleaned. Plans went into drain and money in the pockets of administrators.

A player also wants to play to earn money and fame most of the times. However, for instance, if a cricketer makes run, takes catches or bowls out the opposition does it contribute to the welfare of the society except for some momentary entertainment ? If we win over other country in sports would a country even gain in terms of literacy, wealth, welfare of the nation ?

When there was no war for decades together, many of the people joined army just to enjoy its perks. Though it was unfortunate that Kargil etc. had to be fought. Majority of those who want to be a chartered accountant, judge, singer, film actor, pilot, engineer they aim to make money. I have heard somebody saying that who can't become anything becomes a lawyer.I also heard that the Judges pronounce in the court that the charges have been fixed but postpone the judgement for next hearing just to give time to the other party to negotiate with them so that the quantum of punishment to one party and/or quantum of compensation to opposite party can be fixed with them using exchange of money or so. Whatever work these people do though may be of some benefit to others but with a price tag i.e. they offer their service with a price (hefty fees or bribe). When people give money as hefty fees or bribe to them, at the back of that person call him chor (thief), neech (lowly) and wish them bad luck. On the contrary, a doctor during his training itself starts serving the people without any price tag for a long time (internship, residency and may be later also). Later, even after paying for fees and treatment, majority of patients who get cured feel happy and grateful to the doctor. The gratification may be expressed by a patient by giving a gift to a doctor out of feeling of thankfulness not due to any fear or threat. Thus, it becomes an ideal gift.

I agree that there are doctors who enter into the rat race of making money. They ask for kickbacks, unreasonable: fees, investigations, procedures. But, even if they win the race, they are still a rat, because, now they aim for a bigger race. They may be using wrong tactics to earn money, but not all doctors are like that. The doctors who are honest and fair do not get disappointed by non-approval of their sacrifices and contribution. For those who feel disappointed that they were not able to make much money or fame, I would say:

Hey Doctor,
•Count your Runs by number of patients cured
•Fours by number of children vaccinated
•Sixes by number of very sick patients cured and
•Go on making centuries.

Even then if you don't get Bharat Ratna, you are a Ratna (Gem) by your own deeds and don't need any special recognition. Tags are only sought or used by those who feel they are deficient in something or have an inferiority complex.

In conclusion, I feel to be a doctor is most gratifying. At the end of the day a doctor is always satisfied that s/he contributed to the society in a big way. Nothing is nobler than saving a life or making life liveable.

It definitely counts: What is your contribution to the society.

The Five S Of Modern Medical Practice

As medicine grows exponentially, with new developments and paradigm shifts, the practitioner unfortunately is cornered with growing social indictment of ineptitude and inappropriate profit-making. Amidst this chaos, the Government has added newer confusion and laws, which merely intimidates the practitioner further.
The Media is doing, what it does best- adding fuel to fire.

We need to implement the 5 s in our practices: -

Safe: Let's choose our patients correctly. We only go as far as we our capable with our own knowledge and the resources we have at hand.
Smart: Implement all the tactics of a sound and ethical business, inform our clients regularly, use technology usefully and impress clients(patients) with modern day business practices (which also includes excellent documentation). Be smart, be suave, after all aren't you the creamy layer of intelligentsia.
Scientific: Let us be reasonably updated to the current understanding in our fields, so that our treatment is contemporary and up to date.
Satisfactory: Our practice should be such that it allows us to be satisfied with it. Seeing too many patients in too short a time is counter productive in the long run. Let's not allow the horses of our wishes go uncontrolled.
Sociable: Mingle with society more often. It's a common observation that most doctors do not socialise with the general society. Many are content only interacting with "doctor associations".Interacting with society in general always makes you a part of the society, it helps people understand your problems, your limitations and the hardships you face.
In the words of Patch Adams "treat a disease, you win or lose, treat a person you will always win no matter what the outcome ".

IAS – I Am Safe

Several years back a local boy topped IAS examination. Media went berserk to project that

‘ragdha ragdha’ (anti-Indian agitation) has vanished into a forgotten past. Ironically Kashmir only some time back had agitated against the Indian rule, puffed up to celebrate the wunderkind feat of a fellow Kashmiri joining the Indian ruling elite. The overwhelming response from the Kashmiris was unbelievable. The writing was on the wall.

‘Ragdha-ragdha’ was symptomatic of the scores of grouses reared by the Kashmiris, one of which was their loss of key positions in the state bureaucracy. The implied urge of integration (of Kashmiris) into the Indian mainstream, needed a serious thought by GoI. The spree of Kashmiris qualifying IAS since then, symbolic of a herd mentality, fits well into the scheme of GoI.

We’re up again, celebrating the great feat of nine candidates that qualified IAS this year. Surprisingly not a single local newspaper reported anything about the phenomenal achievements of the Kashmiri teenager that received admit this year in Harvard or the girl that came out with laurels from the top-notch ISB.

Nobody ever talked about the twenty-something IITian prodigy that a couple of years back, cracked 99.99 percentile in CAT, but rejected IIM Ahmedabad in favour of his educational start-up in the valley. And how many of us know about the IITian whizkid (from the state) who’s the co-founder of the much talked-about ‘housing.com’.

We never know about the whiz-kids that keep on being admitted in Harvard, MIT, Yale, Kellogg’s, Wharton, Oxford, Stanford, LSE , INSEAD or IIM, IIFT, XLRI, NID, NIFTs, BITS, IIT, NALSAR, and the like.

What’s so special in IAS that the people are mad keen on it? In any other country, who’ll imagine hordes of youngsters passing out of IITs and IIMs and then forsaking million rupees salary packages to become a bureaucrat with a starting salary of just about Rs 45,000 a month? Asked why they wanted to get into the IAS, the stock replies are: to-serve-the-people, accept-higher-challenges, and become-a-part-of-nation-building-process, work-at-much-wider-canvas and all that jazz.

When confronted that as engineers and doctors too they could have had plenty of opportunities of serving the people, being a part of nation-building and coming face to face with numerous challenges their replies lack coherence and conviction. What these starry-eyed fellows don’t admit candidly is that in their eyes IAS has become synonymous with power and authority.

Indian bureaucrats are kind of largely unaccountable, whom in India in the rarest of rare cases only the President of India can fire. This’s why they earned nick-name for the entire IAS as ‘I Am Safe’. Through a complex set of voodoo rules and regulations, these babus either make things happen almost magically, or stall them for years….they can make you or unmake you.

As it became much easier to build the politician –bureaucrat alliance on the strong foundations of mutual gain, whether pecuniary or otherwise, the powers that the IAS officers enjoy, it’s the ‘one-size-fits-all’ image of the IAS which is a huge attraction.

There’s the regular alphabet soup of secretaries; ¬ joint, special, additional, deputy or under ¬ balancing agriculture and culture, with minimal interest or knowledge of either. An IAS officer is a-Jack-of-all-trades.

With the impunity enjoyed by them, (IAS officers know how to help politicians manipulate processes and doctor files) a large number of officials working in so-called lucrative departments are our multimillionaires, with property everywhere in big cities.

The out-dated administrative procedures and formalism, the variance in the application of rules and regulations, methods of flattery that encourage subservience for obtaining service from the administrators and the lubrication required in the form of payment to powerful political or bureaucratic functionaries to get the work done, are now a part of our administrative culture. Performance is at the level of the lowest common denominator.

For a greater upward-social-mobility a job in government holds a special appeal. It’s the aura of power and authority made on a part of the establishments.

A large number of baby-boomer/holocaust generation parents want children to join professions in prestigious and money-making services. For a typical Kashmiri this is of considerable importance to those who’d traditionally been, at least underrepresented in the government hierarchy still largely monopolized largely by Kashmiris.

The discrimination against the Kashmiris in the state government jobs discussed in the conferences and newspapers and the tub-thumping reports and the revealing statistics about the machinations (reportedly) to dislodge the Kashmiri Muslim from bureaucracy of the state was glaringly corroborated by the virtual deplumation and dethroning of Kashmiri Muslims from the key positions.

IAS is the gateway to power, whereas MBA from IIM opens door to Dollar salaries.

Working in Dream Companies and so on! The graduates from these institutes are offered start-up salaries which an IAS, IFS or IPS officer would make close to the end of a career spanning three decades. In an age where Mammon often decides the worth of an individual, there still remain handfuls that choose to opt for the prestige, glory and job satisfaction of being a bureaucrat. The lure of an IIM degree and a cushy job don’t tempt them. As if there’re two countries, one that’s ‘Bharat’ where IAS is more popular because of the social power, a more public role glory and the power that’s attached to the job are unmatched. In the other that is ‘India’, youngsters opt for IIMs because of more money, professionalism and challenge.

Public perception that the brightest of the bright young men and women would be making a beeline for the corporate sector is misplaced.

Some of the candidates working for Blue chip companies draw an annual salary of Rs 18-20 lakhs, but still aspire to join the central services, ready to take steep dip in their initial salary, if selected.

Life of an average Kashmiri isn’t improved by an IAS officer; it’s much more improved by an entrepreneur or farmer who can create wealth and uplift the people of Kashmir. Forgetting the moralities, you can do much more by being a businessman or farmer. Becoming an IAS officer is just another way to get authority and things for free.

Greater Kashmir
by
Tajamul Hussain
Srinagar, Publish Date: Jul 20 2015 9:09PM | Updated Date: Jul 20 2015 9:09PM