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July 02, 2023
As medicine becomes ever more technologically advanced, “human skills” are becoming increasingly important. Medical ethics or bioethics and medical humanities may have been formally introduced into the curriculum about the same time around the 1970s in certain developed nations. However, in many ...
July 02, 2023
Scientific writing and publishing are significant for an early-career researcher (ECR). For entry into doctoral studies, new jobs, or promotion, publications are among the essential requisites any selection committee will look for. Unlike interpersonal skills such as team building or communicatio...
July 02, 2023
Bioethics originated in the 1970s and has now been around for half a century. During that half-century, brilliant achievements have been made, especially in the West. Basic bioethics theories have been developed that have proved useful in solving many bioethical issues including policies. Moreove...
April 30, 2023
I have been practising medicine in an under-served rural setting since 1976, and have published around 109 papers in PubMed-indexed journals — including The Lancet, BMJ, NEJM and several tropical medicine journals — on scorpion and snakebite cases causing acute life-threatening conditions. I have...
April 30, 2023
In November 2020, the Central government amended the Central Council of Indian Medicine Regulations, 2016, to introduce formal training in Shalya (general surgery) and Shalakya (diseases of ear, nose, throat, ENT, eye, head, oro-dentistry) specialisations for postgraduate students of Ayurveda [1].
April 30, 2023
The gradual move towards telemedicine for the care and service provided to patients with addictive disorders [1], has been accentuated during the pandemic [2-4]. Telemedicine facilitates expert medical care to those situated at distant locations, and reduces the indirect and direct healthcare cos...
June 14, 2022
The duration of the pandemic over the last two years has witnessed the steering of multiple technological interventions by governments. These interventions — ranging from contact tracing applications to vaccine certificates — have been developed in the specific context of the pandemic, and were m...
June 14, 2022
The combined discipline of Yoga & Naturopathy (Y&N) constitutes one of the official indigenous medical systems under the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa, and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Government of India (GoI). The GoI has recently regulated all the systems under AY...
July 23, 2022
With a fresh degree in Biotechnology, I was keen on getting some work experience before deciding on further studies. I wrote emails to several leading researchers in the country. A few responded and one offered me an internship. After a brief interview, I was on board, working in her laboratory. ...
October 28, 2022
Technology is not only changing the way doctors and patients communicate, but also how physicians interact with other healthcare providers. This interaction has increasingly begun to be over online media such as telemedicine networks/instant messaging apps/social media/emails. The Covid-19 pandem...