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October 01, 1999
I draw your attention to a notice in the publication Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals (1998; VI (4): 26A- 27A), announcing the details of a new 'educational programme' in cardiovascular surgery to improve capability in India and China for open heart surgery, cardiovascular anaest...
January 01, 2000
I refer to the letter by Dr. Eustace de Souza on "Dying with Dignity : a response." Dr. de Souza has been singularly consistent in obfuscating issues on this topic. He confuses euthanasia with 'mercy killing'. Killing is an act of violence against an individual, without his consent. Mercy is an a...
January 01, 2000
There is some truth in grievances raised by MARD: insufficient pay, poor living and working conditions, long working hours, and insensitive or absent redressal mechanisms. This was the organisation's 16th strike in as many years. Their frustration is understandable if conditions have not changed ...
July 01, 1999
Regarding our article, and Meenal Mamdani's critique of it, our article ought to have been titled 'Evidence-biased therapy' just to drive home the simple fact that modern medicine with all its diagnostic/therapeutic wizardry, treats, according to its knowledge of cancer, merely some evidence and ...
July 01, 1999
Did Prakash give his informed consent for his kidney to be removed and transplanted into his brother?
April 01, 1999
This is to bring to your attention an advertisement on the back page of the June, 1998 issue of the Journal of Occupational and Industrial Medicine, for the soap Lifebuoy Plus. The ad carries the claim that it has been approved by the Indian Medical Association.
April 01, 1999
The article by Ashok Vaidya 'Ethics in the Clinical Practice of Integral Medicine' gives two case studies where in one case the patient, a young girl with hypothyroidism, was harmed by going to an ayurvedic doctor and in the other case the patient, a young man with viral hepatitis, was helped by ...
January 01, 1999
Your editorial on the medical profession and human rights took a narrow view of the question of medical ethics. It tended to stress instances in which a doctor has abutted or been a party to human rights violations. It missed certain other ethical issues which deserve mention.
January 01, 1999
After seeing your story 'Sexual Assault: the role of the examining doctor', I have a suggestion to make. Would it be possible for your journal to also examine the issue of doctors who sexually violate their patients during physical examinations?
January 01, 1999
I am writing this for the information of those who plan to file or who have just filed medical negligence cases. You have a chance of winning if there is direct evidence in your favour: if a forceps was left inside the operated patient, the wrong part removed, the wrong blood group given, and so ...