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July 01, 1996
In her essay entitled Organs for sale, Dr. Richards puts forward arguments that make you ponder. She points out that the banning of sale of organs might, in fact, restrict the options available to the already poverty stricken person, in need of funds for dire needs and that this might be unethical.
July 01, 1996
Thank you very much for your wishes and I am sure, with the common problems and common struggle, we will manage to change the current state of affairs from bad to good.
July 01, 1996
Let me share two depressing experiences about the disregard for medical ethics shown by doctors despite my protest against unethical practices.
October 01, 1996
Technological advances have outpaced medicine. Let me take the example of my specialty - neurosurgery. When we speak of 'State of the art', for example, do we have true neurosurgery or 'hi-tech' advances in mind? Whether it is the present day sophisticated neuro-imaging techniques or computerised...
October 01, 1996
This is in no sense a complaint. I simply seek advice from you and your readers on patients' access to information about their treatment. Where a patient is incapacitated by age,hearing impairment or their handicap, his relatives - specially one medically qualified - would exercise the right of a...
October 01, 1996
In his essay, Dr. H. V. Wyatt expressed a doubt voiced by some Indian doctors. 'A doctor trying to educate the patient might well lose patients, a sizeable portion of income and, in addition, provoke the hostility of other doctors. At first sight this appears valid, given the Indian milieu.
October 01, 1996
We were pleased to see Dr. Ganatra's essay on the ethics of writing and publishing scientific papers. Some organisations have already instituted rules on authorship. We reproduce below an adaptation of the brief guidelines laid down by Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT) for ...
October 01, 1996
The dilemma faced by Dr. Yash Lokhandwala ' can be equated to that articulated by Hamlet - 'To be or not to be, that is the question.'
April 01, 1996
The journal India Today has published a totally distorted and motivated version of the case of Mrs. Leela Singh, denigrating a medical professional and the profession. lt projects the complainant as a crusader against malpractice in health care and the patient as the martyr of such a practice. Th...
April 01, 1996
The control of blindness has been accorded priority by the Government of India. As the chief cause of preventable blindness in India is cataract, its surgical removal has been emphasised. Whilst this goal is laudable, as with so many other areas in health care, the methods used are such that they...