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January 01, 2001
In October 2000 the General Assembly of the World Medical Association (WMA) met in the UK. This highest decision-making body of the WMA discussed, among other issues, the wording of the latest revised version of the Declaration of Helsinki, the pivotal international ethics document guiding medica...
January 01, 2001
The National Health Assembly (NHA) in Calcutta on November 30 and December 1, 2000, and the People's Health Assembly (PHA) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from December 4 to 8, 2000, represent milestones in the growing opposition to current global inequalities and their consequences on people's health and ...
October 01, 2000
As has been pointed out in the pages of this journal before by Roshni Chinoy, the ethical problems that most clinicians are affected by in daily practice do not arise in the routine of pathologists. We do not have to worry about DNR (Do not resuscitate ) orders, or about "pulling the plug ", to m...
October 01, 2000
About five years ago, a patient who underwent a trans-abdominal tubectomy at the Cuddalore district headquarters hospital died due to complications. It turned out that the surgeon had injured her intestines and failed to recognise this after she developed abdominal distension and vomiting in the ...
July 01, 2000
When someone seriously proposes that the UK National Health Service (NHS) could be saved 'from collapse' by flying patients abroad for cheaper operations, you know something's wrong with the system.
July 01, 2000
During the monsoon months, Nargol in Umbergaon taluka,Gujarat, is just another a sleepy coastal village. The rest of the year, it bustles with activity, for this region is a rich fishing ground.
April 01, 2000
The medical students, resident interns and post-graduate students of Tamilnadu were on strike from February 17 till March 4. Although there were 16 grievances, the two main demands were an increase in the stipend and a law to prevent the setting up of any more private medical colleges in the stat...
January 01, 2000
Giving kickbacks for referring patients for investigations has become a widespread disease. The practice took an epidemic turn with the setting up numerous CT and MRI scan centres. Doctors are canvassed to "extend the indications" for such investigations. In plain English this means doing the inv...
July 01, 1999
January 12, 1999: According to the final MBBS results declared by the University of Mumbai, over 300 students had failed in the Preventive and Social medicine (PSM) paper. Out of these, 64 students had failed only in PSM.
July 01, 1999
During the Third Reich, Nazi doctors in German concentration camps conducted some of the most gruesome medical experiments imaginable. The international community responded to these and other crimes committed by medical researchers against research subjects, with the Nuremberg Code, the first int...