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October 01, 2013
It is disturbing to hear the numerous revelations of malpractice and ethical lapses committed by members of the medical profession. Technology is often misused, with patients being made to undergo unnecessary examinations, hospitalisation and even surgery. In many small nursing homes, doctors hav...
July 01, 2013
JME has rightly focused on the medical humanities with a view to sensitising doctors towards their duties and responsibilities as well as towards an awareness of patients as human beings, to be treated with dignity. The articles related to medical humanities emphasise the need to include...
July 01, 2013
The Indian Council of Medical Research, Department of Biotechnology has issued draft guidelines for stem cell research in 2012. A thorough discussion among ethics committee members is necessary to improve these guidelines.
April 01, 2013
Over the last few years, the media have been repeatedly focusing on corruption in healthcare. Sometimes, speakers on television channels fling allegations at the entire medical community. This biased picture of pervasive corruption is resented by a majority of doctors.
April 01, 2013
Corruption is defined as the misuse or betrayal of public trust, in order to achieve a personal or private goal, instead of seeking the best for the community or country. This is a serious problem for health systems in many places. It could lead to a waste of resources, and, even worse, to utterl...
April 01, 2013
Homosexuality is not a new issue in western medical literature; but an empathetic approach to it in the medical literature in India is a recent phenomenon. Equality in providing healthcare is not being practised, as evidenced by homophobia among doctors, more so in the Indian sub-continent where ...
April 01, 2013
We wish to comment on the report by Al Faisal and colleagues published in The Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. In that report, the authors claim that economic sanctions imposed in 2011 were the reason behind the devaluation of the local currency, interruption of power supply, scarcity of medical...
January 01, 2013
Our country is moving fast towards becoming a developed nation; but are we able to follow the standards of conduct of a developed nation in our government hospitals? I am concerned with the behaviour of medical personnel in government hospitals.
January 01, 2013
There has been a gradual evolution of terminology commonly used in health-related or disability-related contexts. Not so long ago, we used the term "normal" thoughtlessly. Looking deeper, what is normal? Two people under the same circumstances behave differently. Who then decides what is "normal"?
January 01, 2013
After the arrest of the then president of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and president elect of the World Medical Association, Dr Ketan Desai, in April 2010, the MCI was superseded by a Board of Governors for one year under the Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Ordinance 2010, notified in Th...