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July 01, 2003
Continuing medical education (CME) is a way by which health professionals learn after the formal completion of their training. This is essential in all healthcare systems, whether in developed or developing countries.
July 01, 2003
Medical students and interns in Tamil Nadu were on strike for a month since April 22, 2003. The main reason was the present government's move to permit more private medical colleges in the state. The strike was called off on May 22, without the government conceding this main demand.
April 01, 2003
The Indian Medical Association, Academy of Medical Specialties (Karnataka Chapter) organized a conference on 'Multispecialties: current scenario' on February 8, 2003. The scientific sessions dealt with trauma care, imaging technology, etc. At the banquet, along with the orchestra came four barely...
January 01, 2003
Medical conferences are fast degenerating into melas which educate, entertain, amuse and irritate and deceive - not necessarily in that order. One can smell, see and feel the drug industry everywhere, advertising on the walls, shaping the contents and style of educational programmes, tempting wit...
January 01, 2003
In a previous issue of IME (January-March 2001), I supported the right of physicians to advertise. That discussion came to mind last August when I decided to consult a dermatologist for a painful rash. On calling up a colleague from my old place of work, I discovered that he, too, had retired. He...
October 01, 2002
Elsewhere in this issue is a review of Complications by Atul Gawande. As the author and the reviewer emphasise, some people have to be at the receiving end, so to say, of tyros in surgery and other medical fields. This is unfortunate; however, it is the only way medicine can be learnt or...
October 01, 2002
A friend of mine recently joined a corporate hospital as a junior consultant. One of his jobs, he found, was to go along with other junior consultants and the marketing manager of the hospital to visit general practitioners. The doctors would speak about the facilities available at the hospital a...
October 01, 2002
On September 7 and 8, 2001, the Academy of Medical Sciences in Nagpur organised a workshop on medical ethics in collaboration with the Forum for Medical Ethics Society. It was a pleasant surprise to find that a meeting on ethics could draw so many doctors, get them to pay registration fees ...
July 01, 2002
The kidney transplant controversy continues. The licences of most of the hospitals in Karnataka have expired recently and the state is doing a re-think on its policy. What this means is that, at the moment, renal transplants cannot be performed in the state. Even those who have been given permiss...