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
With encouragement to pursue one’s dreams women can break the shackles that family and society binds them in
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...