Junaid Nabi. 2016. “
Losing Terra Firma: The Case for Volunteerism in Surgeons.” Journal of Advances in Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 6, 1, Pp. 2394-1111.
Publisher's VersionAbstractSurgery. The field of medicine, that has played a pivotal role in the evolution of healthcare delivery for generations, even centuries. We have moved far from the time when breast surgery was a grotesque scene in a lecture hall to a state where dozens of operations are performed at outpatient (OPD) facilities. This change has brought with it certain limitations to the growth of the psyche of a surgeon. The tsunami of machines and technologies, which brought comfort and ease to the struggling patients, has also brought mindlessness and arrogance to the practitioners of this beautiful art. As we rely more on machines now than ever before, our approach has become, unsurprisingly, more mechanistic, and we may have lost our grip on the ambition we had when we entered our career: to help humanity. One of the most gratifying aspects of surgery is that we can actually heal a patient in real time; heal their wounds, both physical and metaphorical, with our own hands. This notion was consolidated in my mind as I volunteered at the Savar building collapse a while back, but the lessons I have learned are still very fresh. In this article, I have attempted to put my feelings and my hopes in to words, as a token to the global surgeons-in-training so they can take heed. In our classrooms, the focus on humanity has greatly reduced, and this has in turn produced surgeons who rarely follow the path of volunteerism. There is a solution to this disarray: separate the money from the art, not always, but occasionally. Surgeons have always been the beacons of volunteer activities; there is a reason Doctors Without Borders (MSF) constitutes more of surgeons than any other disciplines. With volunteerism, surgeons understand the world outside the hospital ward and gain insights into patient’s mentality and their fears at a more visceral level. The empathy we gain from such activities will eventually help us become better guardians of health when he re-enters these hospital wards.
Junaid Nabi. 2016. “
To be or Not to be: Social Entrepreneurship in Kashmir.” Advances in Research, 6, 4.
Publisher's VersionAbstractLack of opportunities, and a limited availability of employment in the politically unstable valley of Jammu and Kashmir, in India, has permeated each section of the society, creating new problems for the ethnic minority of Kashmiris in all spheres of their lives from healthcare, to drug addiction. A novel approach is presented, where the control of economic destiny is shaped by promoting the entrepreneurial spirit of the people, so that their dependence on public sector jobs is decreased. Social entrepreneurship, in addition to creating economic benefits for the general populace of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), would be an ideal solution for a society which has been at constant war with itself, both metaphorically and literally. In this policy article, in addition to literature review, we discuss the potential of Social Business in J&K, and present examples of market opportunities which, if explored and invested in properly, can predict a stable and self-sufficient future for Kashmir.