In our routine life, we often encounter health issues that are beyond our comprehension. We require help from a doctor to understand the problem and also to get it cured. Doctors, honest towards their legitimate duties, thus have been given a high status in our society and are considered the life saviours. It is essential for the doctors to stay true to their profession. If we have good doctors in our vicinity it offers a sense of relief to any ailing person. Besides, the medical profession has also evolved over the centuries and is still evolving. Medicines and treatments for various diseases and illnesses that were not available earlier have now been developed and are developing swiftly. The medical profession, in the contemporary society, is regarded, understood or pretended that the doctors suggest the patients to get all sorts of blood tests, X-rays and other tests done even if they approach them for a simple fever or cough, doctors take advantage of the people’s need to regain health and their lack of knowledge about different medical conditions. Even if unaffordable charges, they go for these tests for the fear that the problem may aggravate. Prescribing numerous medicines and health tonics. Stay for longer than the required period people have also been mis-communicated about their illnesses just to extract money from them. Medical profession is becoming more of a business these days rather than a way to serve the people etc. To be a good doctor, you first have to be a good human being and the above perceptions of the society are always being proved wrong and irreconcilable when we consult to a person namely Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed Mir by profession a medical doctor presently serving in Super Speciality Hospital, Govt. Medical College Jammu as an Associate Professor in the department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. Hailing from the remote area of Distt. Doda resident of village Budhli, Tehsil Chilly Pingl (Bhalessa) who has obtained MBBS Degree from GMC Jammu, PGDHHM from IGNOU and MS General Surgery and MCh Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery from Shere-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) Srinagar. He has worked as Consultant Surgery in GMC Srinagar for more than a decade. Apart from professional capacities Dr. Mir is also designated by the editorial board member / reviewer in some national journals. Besides having dozens of publications in local and national journals he has presented various papers at national and international level.
Pertinently to mention that he has also been awarded Rashtriya Gaurav Award at New Delhi and previously felicitated and honoured for his best social services in the field of medical profession. He has really a social-emotional ability with the both affective and cognitive who easily identify the hearts and minds. “Some physicians might not tell patients the full truth, to avoid upsetting them or causing them to lose their hope. Even medical Studies also show that the patients prefer honest and accurate information with regard to their problems. Dr. Mir’s honesty is usually the best policy while communicating with the patients, especially about communication with genuine care and concern. Dr. Mir is a great social activist than a good doctor. His conscience never allows him to annoy from constancy, genuinely to help the people through his profession. The term moral courage for Dr. Mir is defined as the voluntary willingness to stand up for and act on one’s ethical beliefs despite barriers that inhibit the ability to proceed toward right action. It is common to face situations that call for moral courage, including delivering care to an infectious patient, meeting an angry patient or family member, addressing an incompetent or impaired colleague, to give the respect to the patients they deserve. He inspires his patients with optimism. Generally speaking, patients who are more optimistic tend to have better health outcomes and usually first suggestion by Dr. Mir to his ailing community is to abstain from smoking and use of liquor. Dr. Mir’s name is believed the metonym for “Sense of Relief, destination for helpless patients and a ray of hope for them that after consulting and taking advices from him the patient and their attendants may take a deep sigh of relief. They believe that he is much compassion than others. They do also understand his understanding what he knows. Whosoever, visits for routine checkups or consultancy never denies of his soft spoken and high concern towards the patients. Cheering is that the almighty has also blessed him by a Dr. Son in reflection of his virtue standards having the same morality and integrity. I hope, the medical departments especially in our state may evolve by the absorption of good faculty and professionals of having sense of social feelings where unfortunately hospitals always remain house full, where helpless patients eagerly wait for such an ethical professionals for tending to have better health life and due care and concern.
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