...We have been actively engaged in the Medical Audit of patient care in our hospital for the last 6 years... Our problems of medical ethics vary from lack of human emotional approach to greed for money; over treatment and over investigation; multiple consultations and visits; gross negligence an...

We were happy to see the first issue of Medical Ethics and have some suggestions to offer: What is the chief role you envisage for this newsletter? Is it information, education, a commentary on current practices or a forum for discussion? It may be best to define this and orient it accordingly...

...The problem of fault compensation referred to in the first issue of Medical Ethics is a continuing one. It is certainly one that I am interested in myself and... think that no fault damage incurred in non- therapeutic research should be compensated without the need to prove medical negligence....

Thank you for sending me the first two numbers of Medical Ethics. Please accept our congratulations and the hope that it will flourish as it should. It comes at a time when ethics in all walks of life and certainly the practice of medicine could do with a much needed reappraisal. If there is any ...

Medical Ethics is particularly timely as both the political and intellectual leadership as well as the profession are taking more and more liberties with medical ethics.

Medical Ethics is enlightening and educative. I certainly wish to read more of it. 'Caraka's Oath of Initiation' really calls for a doctor of Oliver Sacks' sensitivity!

We welcome contributions to this newsletter on any aspect of medical ethics.

Thank you for the newsletter Medical Ethics. It is a sad state of affairs when the practice of medicine demands the necessity of such a newsletter or journal as in other countries.

There is an outcry against the commercialisation, rampant profiteering and exploitation in hospitals by doctors and others in the medical profession under the weight of which it has become almost impossible for the poor, middle class and the white collar fraternity in the country in general...