Did your medical education include any discussion of medical ethics?

We often saw patients being investigated for research purposes, not for their own good. I remember one seriously-ill patient being subjected to all sorts of painful tests, though he was clearly going to die anyway. When I asked my seniors, they said he was an interesting case, and they might as w...

My first memory of my medical college days is of a professor who would ask me strange questions during the bedside clinic, such as: "Where is Kamshet?" or, "Where are the Alpana Talkies?" As an outsider to the city,I had no clue of the correct answer. Everybody enjoyed such interrogations except ...

To the best of our knowledge, medical ethics is not taught as a separate subject in Indian medical colleges. St John's Medical College has a programme for teaching medical ethics to its undergraduate students. We describe here the structure of our programme, the syllabus and the teaching methodol...

All research designs have their strengths and limitations. A comparison of lung cancer in the US and India with average tobacco intake in the two countries could say something about whether cigarette smoke causes cancer. So could following two groups, of smokers and of non-smokers, over ten years...

Advances are constantly being made in medical science. There has been a marked increase in the number of medical journals. The corporate sector has also entered this field in a big way. Many newer medical periodicals are being published by corporate houses. These are often distributed by post or ...

Contraceptive research has been driven by the need of the provider, not the user, comments the Forum for Women's Health

Discussions of the placebo-controlled clinical trials for HIV have focussed on methodological questions, ignoring the fact that treatments are available but unaffordable

Twenty-eight physicians, ethicists and sociologists responded to a questionnaire on the role of the second opinion in medicine today. Their comments provide the basis for further discussion on this practice, the issues involved, and the ethical complexities in a changing health-care scenario....