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October 01, 1997
With fraud and sleaze so visible all over the world in politics, finance and public life, finding that these also exist in medical research should come as no surprise. Yet it does, and medical scientists still react as if a case were unique. And they manage it so badly, with the whistleblower oft...
October 01, 1997
As commonly understood, a surrogate mother is one who is hired to bear a child that she turns over at birth to her employer. The word 'surrogate' means 'substitute'. Nelson and Nelson point out that 'mother' is the person who gives birth to a child.
October 01, 1997
Recently, the headline 'Rent a womb' highlighted the plea of a woman from Chandigarh to legitimise her surrogacy for a woman who could not conceive. The couple was so anxious to have a child that they were ready to adopt one. Nirmala Devi, who worked for them as a maid, decided to offer her womb ...
October 01, 1997
AIDS no longer is an affliction of any particular group. Estimates reveal that women are being increasingly affected, and the infection rate among women is equal to that among men.
October 01, 1997
"While returning from my morning walk, I saw a bird in a cage. It reminded me of people imprisoned in prejudices. Prejudices are also cages, very subtle and self created. First we create them, then becoming imprisoned in them, we lose all capacity to fly in the open sky of truth. And just now I s...
October 01, 1997
Ad-hocism is rife in the medical profession in India. We seem to keep abreast of current medical knowledge from the information received from medical representatives and from industry-sponsored conferences. There is no programme for continuing medical education worth its name. Very few doctors ta...
April 01, 1997
I am honoured to have been invited to deliver this annual lecture in memory of Shri B. V. Narayana Reddy. My earliest recollection of Shri Narayana Reddy is of meeting him, almost forty years ago, with my father who had taken me to what everyone used to call 'Mysore Bank'. To my adolescent eyes, ...
April 01, 1997
Second opinion refers to the practice of a second physician evaluating the patient for the same medical problem to give another opinion on the diagnosis or the proposed plan of care. The patient, the physician or a third party payer such as a private insurance company or the government may seek a...
July 01, 1997
The changing relationship between doctors and patients has undergone a sea change in the last sixty years. The old family physician is fast disappearing, no longer friend, philosopher and guide.
July 01, 1997
Starting an ethical discussion proves to be a difficult task. At the University of Utrecht, Netherlands, students are introduced to medical ethics during the second year of medical studies. The objectives of this course are to define moral problems, to formulate precise arguments and to analyse t...