Background: Sexual harassment (SH) and Gender discrimination (GD) faced by medical students have been neglected areas of study in India. Only a few recent studies could be found, despite frequent media reports on SH and GD. This study aimed to assess the attitudes...

Background: Misconduct in the publication of research articles is a serious concern for the scientific community. This study was conducted with the objective to assess various reasons for retraction of clinical research articles published in PubMed indexed journals...

Brian Christian. The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2020. 476 pages, ISBN: 9780393635829.

Every English lesson in high school concluded with the introduction of a new word, its meaning and its usage in a sentence. “Harrowing” was one such word, meaning “distressing”. “My grandmother told us many harrowing stories” was the sentence taught in class. This ...

I read with great interest the editorial on the pharmaceutical company–healthcare relationship published in the April-June issue of this journal [1]. Clinical practice guidelines are increasingly used by physicians to guide treatment decisions, and the pharmaceutic...

Background: It is challenging to teach the complexity of the doctor-patient relationship through attitude, ethics, and communication (AETCOM) modules, particularly without being formally trained and especially to first-year medical students who do not interact dire...

Sociality is an ineluctable aspect of the human condition. Both the meaning of our existence in the world and the meaning of the end of our existence come to us from the other and their death. Sharing these meanings in joy, grief and angst fills the moments of our ...