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Stressed to Death: When Work Becomes a Silent Killer – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1096 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1096 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to pharmaveterans2017@gmail.com   for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Anna Tarazevich Credit: Mizuno K Preamble Couple of days ago, several people posted about the sad death of a pharmaceutical sales officer named Harawal. He died in a road accident. From the pictures, it looked that he would be in mid-thirties, a well-built, handsome guy. During the last some time, several such cases of pharmaceutical sales personnel have come to light; young people dying of heart attack or from road accidents when they were driving themselves. Stress is the culprit, and it is well-known fact that the major pharmaceutical companies are in a mad rush of adding billions to their turnover, and they are willing to...

Spiritual Health, Life, and Work – Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1001 Dear Colleagues! This is Asrar Qureshi’s Blog Post #1001 for Pharma Veterans. Pharma Veterans Blogs are published by Asrar Qureshi on its dedicated site https://pharmaveterans.com. Please email to aq.pharmaveterans@gmail.com for publishing your contributions here. Credit: Prince Kumar Credit: Firshad Muhammad Credit: Milo Deckert This blogpost partakes liberally from an article published in May 2024 by McKinsey based on its own survey. Link at the end. Preamble Workplace are supposed to be secular. Work is the religion that everyone subscribes to. Occasionally, in countries like Pakistan, people tend to discuss too many things in offices either because they have a lot of time to kill, or they just want to keep chattering. Religion, or rather religious elements keep coming under discussion. The topic of this post is spiritual health, not any religion. Spiritual health may be defined as having meaning in one’s life, a sen...