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April 01, 1995
The sad fact of life is that people do not like to be lectured or taught. They prefer to learn on their own, if at all, from what they hear and see. So far as ethics are concerned there are today few who can adopt the EDP approach to engender them; Explain, Demonstrate and Eractice.
April 01, 1995
Two statements have been published in two separate articles in Medical Ethics Vol. 2, no. 2, Nov. - Dec. 1994 which are open to contradiction.
April 01, 1995
Kidney transplants - or, rather, kidney trade - is very much in the news. We, in the medical profession, have managed to earn Shylockian sobriquets. What Bangalore or Bombay has revealed is but a symptom of a global malady. The whole gimmicky enjbnt terrible is parented by medicine's ignorance of...
July 01, 1995
Charging exorbitant consultation fees and , in return, not providing satisfactory service has become quite a common practice in private hospitals. The psychological discomfort created by illness compels the patient to undergo each and every test advised by the doctor, even if it is not affordable...
July 01, 1995
The following scene is not uncommon outside any public hospital. Professional blood donors hang around blood banks. They are in search of needy persons, usually relatives of patients. These relatives often borrow money to pay the 'mediator' or donor in order to escape donating blood for their own...
January 01, 1995
The 'Sabnis phenomenon"Â is a glaring example of the selfishness and greed that has overtaken the medical profession. The profession has changed from being 'merciful' to being 'mercenary'. But then, nepotism and corruption have invaded all sections and all levels of our society and the medical pro...
January 01, 1995
... I gladly fulfil your request of commenting on the copies of your newsletter. Asappears from several contributions, you have to cope with pressures on standards of professional morality due to commercialisation of health care services. From a theoretical point of view, this phenomenon - certai...
January 01, 1995
I have seen two issues of your journal [Medical Ethics 1994, 2(1) a n d 1994, 2(2)]. I found them so interesting that I could not stop before I had read through each from cover to cover. Though I am not a medical man myself, I had the good fortune to be asked by Mrs.
January 01, 1995
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January 01, 1995
I was most interested to hear of your work and congratulate you on an informative and well presented journal.