Asia Today, LLC, 1050 E Ray Road, Suite 5 #318, Chandler, AZ 85225 SIA • May 2016 ATODAY 1 Phoenix, AZ PERMIT NO.1714 Uniting all South Asians in the Valley Monthly Newspaper • Vol-IX • Issue-5 • Phone : 480-250-2519 • [email protected] • May 2016 AZ Sikh Aishwarya Rai Gurdwara Sahib Bachchan Celebrates its reveals how she prepares Annual Nagar IACRF Annual Easter Celebration for Cannes red Kirtan 8 Class Day 2016 10 17 carpet 33 Gurdwara Sahib Nishkaam Seva Sri Rama Navami 2016 Celebrates its Annual Nagar Kirtan ri Rama Navami 2016 held on Thurs- Family for sponsoring, preparing and serv- Sday, April 14, 2016 was attended by ing Mahaprasad at the Community Center By Staff Correspondent Saajana Divas followed by Nagar more than 1500 at the Ekta Mandir on a for more than 1000 people. Very generous ike last several years, this year Kirtan on April 17, 2016. Led By weekday making the event a Grand Festi- of them to donate efforts and money. Lagain Nishkaam Seva Gurd- Punj Pyaree (The Beloved five) val for the community. Artist Kshitij Chitania singlehandedly wara Sahib celebrated Khalsa Guru Granth • More on P16 Sincere thanks to Manju Walia and created a special at- • More on P22 Inside Lotus Market 2043 S Alma School Rd, 18425, N. 19th Ave Mesa, AZ 85210 Suite# 116 Phoenix AZ 85023 317-438-1813 317-4381812 www.facebook.com/asiatodayaz www.asiatodayaz.com SIA ATODAY 2 • May 2016 www.asiatodayaz.com www.facebook.com/asiatodayaz SIA • May 2016 ATODAY 3 When a Healer is in Need of Healing Dr. Jaswant Singh Sachdev n relation to personal health of his or her job or shows any laxity, he provider.” M.D., F. A.A. N. Ihealthcare providers, many people or she will be slapped with a lawsuit in It may not be out of place to refer Phoenix, Arizona back home have an impression that no time, frivolous or otherwise, which here briefly to this modern day term of those in the medical profession know again creates a higher cost of doing “healthcare provider.” This is a generic everything worth knowing about the business. label that includes many paramedical human body, both in health and in Being in the medical profession is non-M.Ds. Under its umbrella, nurse medical professionals, is to realize that disease. Consequently, it is assumed a double-edged sword especially when practitioners, physician assistants as sick healers need to be and should that healthcare providers will be having it comes to one’s own health. Most of well as several others with different be provided care like it is given to good health themselves as it is easier the time one is fully aware of the natural shades of training and expertise are all others. It should be irrespective of how for them to keep a tab. Members of the history of a disease. The consequences lumped together. Unless one is willing sick healers behave and what they Indian subcontinent diaspora, likewise, of leaving an illness unattended leading to seriously probe into what exactly disclose or don’t. Their questions must seem to have a general but erroneous to a reduced life span as well as an the qualifications of a substantial care- be answered like anyone else’s. They perception that a healer shouldn’t altered prognosis is all too well-known taker in question happen to be, it might must be listened to, whatever little they fall sick that easily. Furthermore, it is to the healer. Yet, paradoxically, a good well be difficult to find out much about may have to say. Ignoring their care believed by non-medical individuals number of health care professionals a given provider during a short and by simply presuming that they must that should a healthcare provider ever may decide to keep themselves superficial contact. know everything about their health and need medical care, assistance is easily intentionally blind to their health issues The physician-turned-patient illness is not appropriate. It could result available to them and that they receive because they view getting sick as a usually understands these intricacies not only in inadequate care but can better care than everyone else. personal and professional defeat. They and thus may feel inhibited in seeking also put a care-provider in hot water, as This may be so in India and perhaps may simply choose not to confront their treatment from an individual with limited happens here and there. in other Eastern countries, where illness and play ignorant in a hope credentials and experience than him Additionally the healers must realize healthcare providers enjoy positions of that the condition will go away one or her. Having said it all, one issue that when they fall sick, their illness is status and exude a unique aura. For day. They may rather keep their eyes needs further attention. Individuals not going to be different from anyone one, people in India are impressed by shut and ears closed to the impending in the medical profession, especially else’s and that they should expect to be status and personalities. Second, those danger much akin to a bird that closes the physicians or the healers, also treated like other patients irrespective in the medical profession are richer and its eyes on noticing a cat around. As happen to be human beings. They of their own medical qualifications and better known in the community. Both of a consequence and contrary to the possess human bodies, like anyone status, no less and no more. It is to their the above criteria make it easier to seek common belief, this group of health else. They are likely to suffer illnesses benefit that they offer full information to and receive the medical help they need professionals, though small in number, like others and have medical needs the individuals taking care of them for and demand. often tends to have a very limited insight like the rest of the people in the world. otherwise they could be damaging their But this may not necessarily be or no insight at all as to what is going on What is important however, for those own interests and thus cutting their own true over here in the Western world, within their bodies. who come across in taking care of sick feet. especially in this chosen land of plenty, On the other hand, when a for, when it comes to such care, all are healthcare professional is admitted to considered equal, the way it should a hospital for an ailment, the hospital have been. One may find a prince and staff that cares for the individual may a pauper sharing the same room in the take it for granted that the patient itself hospital, lying on the adjacent beds and being in the profession is fully aware of being treated the same way. Most of the the illness and its consequences. And time the treatment one receives in the as such, he or she may not see a need hospital is in accordance with the illness to emphasize important practical points one suffers from and not the status related to the illness. When it comes to one has, thank God! Yet members of being a patient, healthcare providers the medical profession in the West are may feel somewhat inhibited in opening no paupers either. Compared to their up fully and in providing the details counterparts back home, their living needed to receive relevant therapies. standards are equal or better. While They may also live up to their reputation doctors are respected in the West, for not following instructions. It is one the overall attitude of the community thing to be evaluated by a provider but around them is certainly different and it is an entirely different matter to follow nowhere close to what it was in India or directions especially if one happens to other Eastern countries when it comes have a built-in pseudo-belief that he or to truly paying unconditional respect. she knows better than what is being And there is a reason for this difference. told. This attitude may compromise an Over period of time, the practice accurate assessment and treatment. of medicine in Western countries has Additionally, with the medical gradually turned into a business like any profession becoming more and more other one. It is entirely dependent upon specialized, not every sick and elderly dollars and cents perhaps somewhat patient-physician would be in tune with more than what it was back-home. To the latest progress and appropriate some extent, it has to be, for it relies care. Yet the attending medical staff mostly on advancement in technology may believe otherwise and wrongly and scientific research, both of which, think that the “doctor knows everything.” no doubt are expensive. And to add to However, this may be true in some the problem, the malpractice attorneys, cases where the physician-turned- the so-called ambulance chasers, keep patient may indeed happen to be far the health professionals on their toes. more experienced or trained than a so- God forbid, if a medical provider fails in called modern day young “healthcare www.facebook.com/asiatodayaz www.asiatodayaz.com SIA From the Desk of Asia Today ATODAY 4 • May 2016 Gender Bias…A Global Epidemic this was the first time I felt the feelings Uniting all South Asians in the Valley of alienation, isolation, and discomfort in Monthly Newspaper I recently saw a video that was going speaking up that other women describe • Vol-IX • Issue-5 • May 2016 •[email protected] viral on Facebook about an elderly Indian in male dominated environments.