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November 07, 2016
A couple from the UK travelled to Ukraine in search of a surrogate mother. According to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA)(UK), a birth mother is the legal parent of the child, irrespective of citizenship, and so in this case, it considered the Ukrainian surrogate the legal m...
October 07, 2016
In his foreword, Mr Keshav Desiraju describes this book as remarkable, on the basis of the fact that the authors have interviewed 78 physicians, recorded their thoughts about their profession, and got them to describe their cynicism and the bad faith prevailing among doctors. He concludes that al...
July 04, 2016
Atul Gawande, Abraham Verghese, Paul Kalanithi, Siddhartha Mukherjee, all have two things in common – surgery and writing. Belonging to the same fraternity, the surgeon-writer duo Kalpana Swaminathan and Ishrat Syed (under the nom de plume – Kalpish Ratna) have produced an excellent book...
May 28, 2016
Margaret Whitstock, Reducing adverse events in older patients taking newly released drugs. Saarbrücken, Germany: Verlag/Scholar's Press, 2015.197 pages, US $ 54.00, ISBN 978-3-639-76797-1
July 04, 2016
Thirty-five years ago, when my father died of a massive heart attack at the age of 61 after lingering for three days in a hospital, the family suffered no guilt – was he diagnosed early enough? Was good treatment provided? The answers were in the affirmative, given the quality of healthcare provi...
May 05, 2016
Many emotions are encountered in a hospital; distress, apprehension and fear, juxtaposed against relief, gratitude and happiness. Both sets are manifested in different people or in the same individual at different points of time. So interlinked are these two sets of emotions, and so frequent thei...
May 05, 2016
Dr Samiran Nundy's foreword to the book sums up its contents accurately. Let me quote just one paragraph from it to give you the flavour of this autobiography: "...I started reading the book on a Friday and by Sunday I had finished it and was absolutely enthralled. The opening page sets the tone ...
October 04, 2015
This book has come at a time when the enrolment rate in nursing courses has dropped as students seek professions which will guarantee a secure future. There are a few exceptions, generally from Kerala, who still seek admission to the course in nursing, as it ensures 100% employment at all times.
October 04, 2015
This is one of the few films that are not only examples of mastery over the craft of film-making, but also show that a movie on medical and psychiatric themes can be as entertaining and thought-provoking as other films.
January 01, 2016
This book attempts to evaluate the implications of the recent economic growth in India for improvement in the living standards of the masses. According to Dréze and Sen, India's recent economic growth is, indeed, quite remarkable; however, its celebration is contemptible, given its limited transl...