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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.
July 01, 2001
It has been correctly pointed out by Harsha Deshmukh inher article Cadaver transplants: ground realities that very few cadaver transplants have been performed even after the Human Organs Act 1994 removed a major legal hurdle by recognising brain death.
July 01, 2001
Itake strong exception to your statement in the editorial. You have written, "As medical education became commercialised, the alliance between corrupt medical council members and politician owners of capitation fee-based private medical colleges destroyed the profession's ethical fabric."
July 01, 2001
The debate on trade in kidneys for economic gain has become polarised between those who do not view this as different from any other economic gain (those not attaching any moral value to any economic transaction), and those who view this in the context of human realities, like poverty, that drive...