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July 01, 1998
Increasing economic liberalisation and privatisation have affected health care as much as they have affected many other social and administrative systems, perhaps even more so. Though the changes are global, in India, the shift seems to have happened overnight, and public health services have bee...
July 01, 1998
A review of literature in the Indian, database provides only a few anecdotal reports on the questions of informing the spouse of an HIV positive person, the role of blood banks and confidentiality in the workplace, with no comprehensive studies on the subject. One approach to the question could b...
July 01, 1998
There is an abundance of laws to regulate the medical profession, the pharmaceutical industry, arid otherwise protect people's welfare. S G Ka bra comments on their implementation
April 01, 1998
Disclosure of information gained by a doctor during examination and interrogation of the patient or after laboratory tests is a tricky matter. Giving information to a patient is not normally a problem; giving information to relatives, or an unrelated third party is almost always problematic.
April 01, 1998
Working in a hospital where patients are dichotomised into "general" or non-paying and "private" or paying patients brings up some interesting questions and has stimulated my thoughts on this issue. Most hospitals in India belong exclusively to either the private or public sector. Such a stark co...
April 01, 1998
The economic basis of health care is undergoing revolutionary change. The US is progressively converting from a system based on fee for service to a system based on so-called managed care. As is often true, changes in basic economic approaches usually result in changes in medical practice as well...
October 01, 1997
Over the four-and-a- half-year span of medical training, students are extensively grilled on how to diagnose diseases and treat patients. The rules of conduct, which should guide his behaviour when interacting with his own professional colleagues, is hardly ever touched upon in the medical curric...
October 01, 1997
In 1903 the Wright brothers flew for the first time in a machine heavier than air. They soared 30 metres above land for 12 seconds. No one would have imagined that this technology would one day lead to the manufacture of aircraft which would cross the sound barrier and transport hundreds of peopl...
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.