Dr. Pilgaokar is on our editorial board. He serves several organisations working for human rights. the inaction al-too-commonly displayed by medical professionals in the face of He focuses attention on crises.

Dr. Kannama Raman is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sophia College, Bombay. She discusses an inspiring example set by a doctor of Indian origin in the U. S. A. The suggestion at the end of her essay needs urgent attention.

As a consultant at the Lokmanya Tilak Medical College and Hospital in Bombay, Dr. Murlidhar has been an examiner for the students of the University of Bombay. He has unravelled the facts behind the steady decay in medical education, using the accusation that a fellow-teacher and examiner indulged...

He laments the non-availabilty of ethical practitioners of medicine who can inspire undergraduates and postgraduates.

Ethical medical practice can only be ensured when students witness fairplay and justice from the start. Frustration and bitterness - inevitable consequences of obviously unfair practices - often turn the-sufferer away from the straight and narrow path. Ms. Sheela Hanasoge, the editor of the stude...

Dr. Mangesh Jalgaonkar practices family medicine in Andheri, Bombay. This paper was awarded a prize at the annual conference of the General Practitioners Association in Bombay.

Given the norms of medical practice as they exist in our country today, survival of a quarterly journal on medical ethics is an event to celebrate. This is not written in an attempt at congratulating ourselves. We take our continued existence as a sign justifying optimism.

The Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) is a statutory body set up by the Government under the Maharashtra Medical Council Act 1956 for carrying out three principal functions : to maintain a register of doctors practising modern medicine in Maharashtra, to discipline erring doctors and to ins...