The writer is a psychiatrist, author of Love and Revolution: Faiz Ahmed Faiz and a Trustee of the Faiz Foundation Trust. He can be reached at ahashmi39@gmail.com and tweets @Ali_Madeeh
Many doctors have left the country to realise their potential, but many more still need a push to convince them that they have what it takes
A good number of new graduate doctors seek residency in the United States -- seen as the ‘Holy Grail’ of all freshly minted doctors
It is up to us to use technology safely and responsibly and to remind our children to do the same. Technology does not create itself
Making decisions regarding our own health, be it mental health, is the basic right of every person. The patient’s family and society need to...
On mental patients’ right to challenge their treatment in a court of law
Who is sane and who is not? And who decides?
How practising psychiatry in Pakistan is different from the west
There are at least two instances in Faiz’s collected works where a poem was censored by his publisher, each time without Faiz’s knowledge or...
Is a doctor prescribing you something because it’s what you need for your illness or because the company that makes it paid for his or her foreign...
Love at various stages of life and how the circle of love grows ever wider
Roughly, 33-60 per cent of the population suffers from depression. That’s literally tens of millions of people. It’s time the spike in cases of...
Why and how do dreams happen?
If writing is a skill, like any other skill, we should be able to learn, practise and perfect it over time
It is not possible to put into words the unique experience of grief and loss in all its myriad forms, yet there are ways to come to terms with it
A young mother in the throes of a severe illness being made a mockery of shows the level of ignorance in our society regarding mental illness
Doctors and all healthcare personnel are terrible at taking care of themselves
What most of us yearn to return to is not a place, it’s a state of mind -- the magical mystical past of our childhood when we were happy and...
From a mild fall evening in November 1985 at Lahore’s Alhamra, the first birthday after his death, the ritual of remembering the people’s poet...
Conspiracy theories are, of course, not exclusive to Pakistan. The Loch Ness monster , the ‘Yeti’ and ‘flying saucers’ or...
