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January 01, 1997
Doctors in general, like lawyers and politicians, have always been mistrusted by laymen but individual practitioners may be lauded beyond their desserts
January 01, 1997
Traditional concepts and values have undergone dramatic upheaval consequent to advancement in biomedical technology. As newer technologies replace existing ones, they throw open a host of ethical questions. We need to reflect on many issues if ethics in biomedical sciences is to have any meaning ...
January 01, 1997
There have always been medical tuitions. In the days gone by, clever students and toppers were picked up by heads of departments for specialised coaching to attain the first position in the University, the gold medal or the coveted prize. That was because of institutional rivalry. No money change...
January 01, 1997
The British National Health Service (NHS) of today has its origins in the NHS Act of 1946, passed in Parliament by the post-World War II Labour Government of Clement Atlee. The Act very explicitly set out the objectives of the NHS: to provide an adequate and comprehensive healthcare system, avail...
January 01, 1997
The foundations of modern medicine were laid down 2000 years ago in Greece. It was the ingenuity of one man Hippocrates- who stressed careful clinical examination, documentation and scientific logic that delivered medicine from quackery and propelled it towards becoming an art and a science. Hipp...
October 01, 1996
I reproduce here, verbatim, correspondence I have had on a matter we have all experienced and some of us have thought about. The only facts I have concealed are the names of the patients concerned and the institutions and doctors involved. I thought long and hard before taking this decision...
October 01, 1996
The correspondence and publicity following the disciplining and subsequent settlement in his favour, prior to an Industrial Tribunal, of Stockport Health Authority Charge Nurse Graham Pink, suggested that the urge to blow the whistle was at almost epidemic proportions in the British Nationa...
October 01, 1996
India is a country of villages. Most villagers are illiterate, innocent farmers who are busy round the clock all through the year. They are unaware of medical facilities in or around the village till they fall sick. They do not plan for measures to be taken if and when they are ill, nor do ...
October 01, 1996
Ancient Indian thoughts, philosophy a developed with a rational synthesis an gathering into itself new concepts. Spiritual was the foundation of India's cultural histo spirituality, dharnza (ethical conduct accordi state) was the most important concept of Indi Both are, unfortunately, on th...
October 01, 1996
The behaviour of doctors during the pneumonic plague in Surat in September-October 1994 was a blot on the medical profession. It raises several ethical issues related to their responsibility towards society and their profession. This essay briefly describes how the doctors of the city respo...