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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...
October 01, 1996
Throughout history children, i.e. human beings below the age of eighteen years, have been exposed to violations. There is a gradual transition between neglect, maltreatment and torture of children. Corporal punishment by parents, teachers or public authorities, hard labour or misuse as 'professio...
October 01, 1996
During the March 1996 budget session of the Punjab Assembly, in response to Question no. 556, the Chief Minister (C. M.) in a written answer told Ms. Vimla Dang, Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA):
'The Principal of Medical College, Jalandhar who had been appointed w. e. f. (wi...
April 01, 1996
When evidence of trade in organs for transplantation from live vendors reached attention in the West, widely different groups indignantly denounced it. Restricting my remarks to kidneys, I suggest that this indignation is misplaced.
April 01, 1996
The recent Supreme Court ruling stating that paid medical services come under the purview of Consumer Protection Act has sparked off considerable medical and public debate. New laws, improvements and change are hallmarks of a progressive society. We must, however, expect friction between the upho...
April 01, 1996
The medical profession is getting more and more cornmercialised. There has been a continuous erosion of medical ethics not only in the private sector but also in the Government sector. I give some examples from my own experience in Punjab.