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September 26, 2017
Dr Mani is a pioneering nephrologist in India. He tells us about his mentors - right from the age of 7 or 8 years - when he decided to become a doctor - and how he stuck to the straight and narrow path, the razor's edge of medical practice in India. Dr Mani practised medicine in Government Medica...
September 07, 2017
This is in reference to the book review "India's health system: No lessons learned" by Sunil K Pandya, published online in IJME on August 30, 2017. Before responding to the review, a clarification may be in order. The book Do We Care? India's Health System is not an autobiography. It neither list...
August 31, 2017
Ms Kanuru Sujatha Rao studied post-graduate history at Delhi University. She has a Master's Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University. She joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1974 and belonged to the Andhra Pradesh cadre. She has dealt with health and family welfare in the G...
August 08, 2017
Professor Dr. Henk ten Have is currently the Director, Center for Healthcare Ethics at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA. Formerly, he was Director, Division of Ethics of Science and Technology, UNESCO. He has more than 25 years teaching experience in bioethics. He has published several articl...
August 01, 2017
Arjun Nath’s White Magic: A Story of Heartbreak, Hard Drugs and Hope is one of those rare, honest, intelligently reflective accounts about the long engagement (“struggle” seems too clichéd) with drugs. It is illuminating to finally read a scrappy, hard-bitten account. The value lies less in the s...
July 19, 2017
Cultural Ontology of the Self in Pain, an edited volume by Siby K George and P G. Jung, seeks to release one of the most fundamental concepts of human existence—pain—from the clutches of its reductive, physicalist, and mechanistic understanding in modern medicine. This anthology consisting of fou...
July 04, 2017
This handbook on Understanding medical error by the Karachi Bioethics Group addresses an important but taboo topic in healthcare. It is a slim manual of 53 pages intended to shed light on identifying, managing and minimising medical error. The dictum oft quoted in medicine 'primum non nocere' is ...
February 28, 2017
The medical profession, more than any other, has had to constantly gaze at itself in the mirror of "ethics", whether in praxis or in the haloed (often antiquated) oaths taken, even as it grapples with being a sustainable industry and business. A constant, willful, collective neglect of realistica...
January 01, 2017
The tremendous and unquestioning regard, in which modern medicine has been placed, has been tempered somewhat by the realisation that every technological advance does not necessarily mean an improvement in disease outcomes. Better understanding of scientific methodology has led to the development...
January 01, 2017
Jerry Pinto is famously known as the author of Em and the big Hoom, an absolutely riveting near-autobiographical account of his growing-up years with his bipolar mother. He has now followed this up with this collection of short memoirs of caregivers of those with a different mind – his evocative ...