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January 01, 1995
The Maharashtra Medical Council Act (hereafter re-ferred to as the Act), legislated in 1965, has deficiencies that do not allow the Council to respond to changes in the patterns of medical practice, education and health-care services and the vast increase in number of medical practitioners over t...
January 01, 1995
It is more than ten years since over forty tonnes of lethal gases leaked from the pesticide plant in Bhopal belonging to Union Carbide Corporation. The leak affected over 500,000 persons. Most of these gases (which included methyl isocyanate, hydrogen cyanide and monomethylamine) have produced pe...
April 01, 1995
Dhanwantari narrates: "During the great war of the gods, Rudra severed the head of Yadnya. The gods then approached the famous celestial twin surgeons, Aswinikumaras. They successfully united Yadnya's head to his trunk restoring him to life"– Sushrut Samhita Sl / 17
April 01, 1995
In the correspondence section of this issue Dr. Thomas George contests our expressed view that it is unethical for a doctor to take over a patient already under the care of another doctor without a note of referral.
May 01, 1994
Forum for Medical Ethics sought and obtained opinion and advice from a variety of experts. It also studied some of the publications on the subject in medical and other journals. The following draft guidelines were then drawn up and are presented here. They could form the basis for the preparation...
May 01, 2004
Editorial note: Dr. Anantharam is a senior and respected consultant surgeon. His repugnance of the depths to which the malpractice of medicine has sunk has found expression in this essay.
May 01, 2000
The essay with this title' has asked several pertinent and important questions. I would like to add a few comments. The essay indicates that instead of expected relief, the patient encounters hostility, fear and rejection and asks why doctors and others behave thus.
May 01, 2004
As promised in the last issue, we feature an essay on ethics in medical research. We hope this will form the basis for meaningful discussion on steps to improve the current situation - Editor
August 01, 1994
Mr. Justice Michael Kirby is President. Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, Sydney, Australia. He is a former member of the World Health Organisation Global Commission on AIDS. The address - from which excerpts are printed here with permission - was delivered at the International Cotlference on...
August 01, 1994
An abridged version of the statement issued by Paryay. He is a group fostering hrrmane alternatives to hysterectomy in the mentally handicapped. We oppose the decision on hysterectomy in severely mentally retarded women in the asylum run by the government.