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April 01, 2011
The shopping complexes or malls that are being set up all over this country are creating new occupational health hazards. Enter a mall in any city today and the sales persons will be standing, waiting to serve you. There is a belief that standing to serve is part of their job. We do not stop to t...
April 01, 2011
The IJME editorial in the January-March 2011 issue calls on the Indian Medical Association (IMA) to reform itself in order to be able to play a more proactive role in health activism in the country. As the largest body representing (allopathic) doctors in India, the IMA can use the leverage of nu...
April 01, 2011
We thank Dr Bhan for his letter in response to our paper 'Elephant in the room'. He has correctly noted that even what might be described as consensual acts of sexual boundary violations (SBVs) between doctors and their patients are not truly so due to the power differential in their relationship...
April 01, 2011
Susan M Reverby has unearthed a glaring example of unethical research, carried out by the United States Public Health Service and co-sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the Pan American Health Sanitary Bureau and the Guatemalan government in 1946-48. In this study of the effectiveness...
April 01, 2011
The National Bioethics Conference felicitated Sunil Pandya, Vasantha Muthuswamy and Chandra Mohan Gulhati for their work in medical ethics (1). Such recognition to deserving mentors will infuse life into the field and project the nobility of medicine in the eyes of the local as well as the intern...
April 01, 2011
The Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations was recently amended regarding the relationship between doctors and professional associations of doctors and the pharmaceutical and allied health sector industry. Many of these amendments are not practical. For ex...
April 01, 2011
The news about the patently unethical trials carried out in Guatemala by researchers from the United States underscores the continuing necessity to regulate human research, inspire public trust, and strengthen existing protections for research participants in all countries, rich and poor. This is...
April 01, 2011
This was the scene in an accident and emergency department in a tertiary hospital of New Delhi: the patient had sustained poly-trauma in a high-speed road traffic accident, but lay unattended, on the road, because the police had not arrived, and bystanders did not attempt to help the victim for f...
April 01, 2011
It is increasingly common to find medical students taking bedside clinical pictures or videos of patients. It is not unusual to find even groups of students doing this, during or after a clinical class. The recent surge in the usage of cell phones with cameras, and the increasing lack of sensitiv...
January 01, 2011
A recent editorial in IJME Â highlighted the scandalous actions of office bearers of the Medical Council of India (MCI). The MCI's image was tarnished following reports of corruption concerning its president. When a person noted for corruption has manned the post for so long, the standard of medic...