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...