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October 01, 2001
The recent developments in Orissa have again brought into focus the fact that food security in India is, at the best of times, precarious. All too often, the familiar picture of overflowing grain stores and starving people is invoked. India by all accounts appears to have attained self-sufficienc...
October 01, 1997
This has reference to 'Learning and teaching outside medical colleges'. Dr. Bhatt's arguments would have been ignored as a pathetic attempt to promote private tuitions for medical students if it were not through the otherwise serious publication concerning important issues in medical ethics.
October 01, 1997
It is disturbing to see that some professional organisations allow themselves to be made party to advertisement of consumer health products.
October 01, 1997
We work in a small hospital in a remote part of Koraput district in Orissa. We cater to a predominantly tribal population. In the Lamtaput block, coverage by trained auxiliary nurses is as low as 20%. Transport and communications are primitive. Women come to the hospital only if a normal delivery...
October 01, 1997
"Thou shall not steal," The good Lord said,
But look, I need rich meals.
Besides, I have a better head,
His patients I should steal.
But look, I need rich meals.
Besides, I have a better head,
His patients I should steal.
October 01, 1997
The doctor, fashionably attired,
With a long string of alphabets trailing his name,
Emerges from a fancy, air-conditioned limousine,
Driven by a liveried chauffeur.
With a long string of alphabets trailing his name,
Emerges from a fancy, air-conditioned limousine,
Driven by a liveried chauffeur.
July 01, 1997
This is in response to Ethical problems in medical education by Dr. F. E. Udwadia . I congratulate him on a well written article that summarises the ills besetting our medical education system.
July 01, 1997
There is so much of 'ethics' in the air, even among our political (frightened) class that there is a distinct fear of the rhetoric becoming hypocritical, imitative and demonstratively vulgar. We shall again elevate ambivalence into a mystique and refuse to see truths steadily.
July 01, 1997
Thanks for sending me the January-March 97 issue of your very significant journal and the subscription slip - this kind of systematisation is good, especially because subscribers tend to forget renewing their subscription unless reminded for. I am enclosing a cheque
July 01, 1997
I congratulate you and your staff for publishing such a good journal when all around us scams are going on, morality is at the lowest level and (it is) hard to find doctors doing ethical practice.