Mahira Khan was the center of an important discussion on Twitter yesterday surrounding the telefilm “Aik Hai Nigar” where one of the dialogue’s called local doctors “ordinary”. When the clip reached social media, neitzens cited it as offensive to doctors especially during a pandemic when doctors were made to work long hours under grueling conditions to save lives.
Some of the twitter users who criticized this dialogue where doctors themselves, and also shared snippets of the long hours and grueling conditions they had to work in to save lives, and criticized Mahira Khan and the writers of the telefilm for making such harsh assumptions about doctors.
wtf & wth
we aren’t ordinary doctors either, we are dealing with unprivileged/common/general public 24/7,insteade of sophisticated patients of cmh or stuff.We wear ordinary white overall which is our trademark & we don’t need awfaul Clay colored clothes to show our capabilities. pic.twitter.com/1yYy5jFECG— Dr.Shafay Sabir (@freeguy947) October 26, 2021
Yes, we are not ordinary doctors at all, instead we are the doctors who ask critical patients with oxygen saturation of 50% ,in severe nephrogenic pulmonary oedema to go to some Govt. hospital as our Consultants have said we don’t treat civilians- True story-2019 Med ER HFH,Rwp. pic.twitter.com/0pbm4fh1NM
— Saba Arshad (@sabaarshadali) October 26, 2021
Dear Mahira Khan and the script writer, ‘ordinary’ doctors working tirelessly day&night in overcrowded hospitals are way better than doctors in uniforms. Labelling every other doctor as ‘ORDINARY’ is childish. Ur better than this. Please choose your dialogues wisely next time. pic.twitter.com/tG4U8oO8oV
— Saad Kaiser (@TheSaadKaiser) October 26, 2021
Khalai Doctors cannot be ordinary, Just getting paid 50k a month. We are the fuckin ordinary Doctors paying million of rupees and tackling all the depression and still better than these Non-ordinary, Beyond the state, Randomly selected, So called Daactars. pic.twitter.com/aXZH3H4e0W
— Awais Afzal (@Awais_Afzal_) October 26, 2021
Ordinary doctors aren’t subjecting people to discrimination.
It’s disappointing that you have to disgrace others to enhance one’s greatness. pic.twitter.com/VwC9n2agzJ— Khansa Malik (@MissKMalik) October 26, 2021
During MBBS,we get 30k monthly scholarship.After MBBS,we get paid jobs & trainings with double stipend than ordinary doctors.We’ve health, education & residence free for family.After retirement,we get pension as well as plot in DHA.Yes we are not ordinary bloody civilian doctors. pic.twitter.com/HOIT4pPxK0
— Saad Khizer 🇵🇰 (@OldsPaper) October 27, 2021
So she’d rather have only rich affording civilians get treated for non emergent issues in a hospital running over capacity with covid struck soldiers and officers who caught it while they were trying to enforce SoPs on the roads of this country.
No cure for stupidity bruh https://t.co/tlsfymLzCs— ehbeerawr (@ehbeerawr) October 26, 2021
What is an ordinary Doctor? What kind of racism is this?
The kind of service civil Drs have provided during the pandemic,the number of gems we’ve lost at the hand of this pandemic when these uniform Drs closed their doors right in the start of pandemic.
Pathetic. Shame on you https://t.co/binwaebeKC— Syed Mobeen (@syedmobeen4) October 27, 2021