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January 01, 1997
Medical science and technology have made great strides in recent years. The medical profession has today more power over life and death than it would have chosen to have. It has the power to prolong life where life seems to have lost its meaning and power to terminate life without suffering. Ther...
January 01, 1997
When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.'
January 01, 1997
An outrageous test was conducted on a student nurse who was seeking admission to the nursing course at King George Hospital, Vishakapatnam. In association with this, two gynaecologists, Dr Sasi Prabha and Dr Varalakshmiwere found guilty of conducting per vaginal test on the nursing student and ha...
January 01, 1997
One of the cardinal principles of medical practice' is 'primum non nocere'. This concept of 'first do no harm' applies to oneself as to one's patients or colleagues. Only a doctor who takes good care of his or her health can take good care of his or her patients. Yet, in India, safety an...
January 01, 1997
Doctors in general, like lawyers and politicians, have always been mistrusted by laymen but individual practitioners may be lauded beyond their desserts
January 01, 1997
Traditional concepts and values have undergone dramatic upheaval consequent to advancement in biomedical technology. As newer technologies replace existing ones, they throw open a host of ethical questions. We need to reflect on many issues if ethics in biomedical sciences is to have any meaning ...
January 01, 1997
There have always been medical tuitions. In the days gone by, clever students and toppers were picked up by heads of departments for specialised coaching to attain the first position in the University, the gold medal or the coveted prize. That was because of institutional rivalry. No money change...
January 01, 1997
The British National Health Service (NHS) of today has its origins in the NHS Act of 1946, passed in Parliament by the post-World War II Labour Government of Clement Atlee. The Act very explicitly set out the objectives of the NHS: to provide an adequate and comprehensive healthcare system, avail...
January 01, 1997
The foundations of modern medicine were laid down 2000 years ago in Greece. It was the ingenuity of one man Hippocrates- who stressed careful clinical examination, documentation and scientific logic that delivered medicine from quackery and propelled it towards becoming an art and a science. Hipp...
October 01, 1996
I reproduce here, verbatim, correspondence I have had on a matter we have all experienced and some of us have thought about. The only facts I have concealed are the names of the patients concerned and the institutions and doctors involved. I thought long and hard before taking this decision...