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April 01, 2006
Open-ended interviews with providers, administrative staff and patients in one teaching hospital and two peripheral hospitals in Mumbai were conducted to investigate the triggers to violence against hospital staff, the underlying conditions that give rise to such conflicts, the structural and org...
April 01, 2006
Medical records review, or retrospective analysis of medical records, constitutes a significant part of medical research. Ethical concerns, especially issues of confidentiality, have resulted in the introduction of stringent regulations in doing this form of research. The merits and demerits of t...
October 01, 2005
Professionalism in dentistry is not guaranteed by simply issuing a graduation degree. That status can only be granted by the public whom it serves. There are three main characteristics that are shared by any profession: delivering the best possible education to its students, giving priority to pu...
October 01, 2005
Dental treatment aims to diagnose and eradicate diseases of teeth and gums, and to repair the damage done, providing better function and improving the patient's quality of life. All this needs meticulous planning of treatment and its execution. But this can test the patience of both doctors and p...
April 01, 2005
Sexual harassment is a serious problem for women workers. There is extensive anecdotal evidence indicating its pervasiveness, but it remains hidden by the veil of silence surrounding the issue.
January 01, 2005
Recent media reports – some on the sale of cadavers between medical colleges, and one of police intercepting an ambulance carrying cadavers – force us to examine questions on the law and ethics of cadavers for anatomical dissection.
October 01, 2004
The experiences of countries across the world have demonstrated the need for government involvement in health care. Due to the poor quality of India's government health care system, diseases that have declined in many developing countries continue to be common here. Studies indicate that governme...
July 01, 2004
The concept of property is usually understood as a moral and legal right to exercise exclusive influence and control over a material object. A person who owns something, such as a patent or medicine, can dispose of (or control access to) it without regard for others. Like and including patents, m...
July 01, 2004
Omar Swartz presents a number of good arguments in favour of treating the formulae for making human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and other life-saving drugs as public goods rather than private property: ideas can be shared without being used up; the most effective use of blueprints for life-savin...
July 01, 2004
Female sterilisation is the mainstay of contraceptive methods in India. Every year over four million female sterilisation operations are conducted in the country. Like all surgical procedures, female sterilisation, despite being a relatively low-risk procedure, has its attendant risk and failure ...