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July 01, 2010
I congratulate your team on publishing the article: "Was the Gadchiroli trial ethical? Response from the principal investigator". Abhay Bang raised some practical questions for discussion with the international community. The following are my views in response to this article:
July 01, 2010
An amendment by the Medical Council of India, in 2009, has introduced, as a criterion for early academic promotion, a compulsory minimum number of publications.
July 01, 2010
I would like to approach the readership of your journal through these columns in order to explore an issue that is assuming alarming proportions here in Pakistan. It has become commonplace for physicians here to appear in commercials, directly or indirectly promoting products.
July 01, 2010
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a pathology seen in middle aged or elderly males and can present with painful acute urinary retention warranting immediate relief through per urethral insertion of a Foleys Catheter. Transurethral Resection of Prostate (TURP) is considered the gold standard f...
April 01, 2010
Dr Pandya in his hard-hitting commentary, "Medical Council of India: the rot within", characterises the problems plaguing the council. The Medical Council of India (MCI) is entrusted with supervising the quality of medical education in the country and promoting medical ethics; but such has been t...
April 01, 2010
Dissection is not only a skill, but also an art that is identified as the signature of a surgeon. Besides the surgeon, all medical practitioners exhibit their proficiency, or the lack of it, while performing procedures such as the draining of an abscess, removal of a cyst, venesection, and so on....
April 01, 2010
Most human beings will do almost anything to prolong their lives or relieve themselves from the suffering of a disease. Others will do anything to exploit these desires by selling what they claim to be magical remedies even for incurable diseases.
April 01, 2010
Recent advances in the field of medicine in general and surgical specialties in particular have been mindboggling. These have greatly improved the care of patients. Problems which were initially incurable are beginning to be solved.
January 01, 2010
The recent controversy on the efforts made by the Medical Council of India and the government of India to bring transparency in medical education highlights the urgent need for reforms in this area.
July 01, 2001
This refers to the article 'Brain death and our transplantlaw' by Sunil K Pandya in which Dr Pandya concludes by saying we need a separate law which defines brain death clearly, and this definition must supersede the older definition of cardiopulmonary death.