Category: Research Articles
November 01, 1993
The title of this book by Professor James Calnan, Emeritus Professor of Plastic Surgery at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith is, in itself, thought-provoking. Talking with - and not to - patients is what we should really be doing, listening to what they say (or wish to say ...
Editorial Team
November 01, 1993
Communal riots shook Bombay in two phases, first during December, 1992 (in the aftermath of the demolition of Babari Masjid), and then in January 1993. As a surgeon working in a public hospital which absorbed a large number of casualties during the riots, I could observe distinct difference...
Dr. V Murlidhar
November 01, 1993
Bombay's mushrooming ICCUs (intensive cardiac care units) are 'death traps' for unsuspecting, critically ill patients... ICCUs are misnomers at best. They form an unchecked, unregulated, unlicensed, unauthorised and inadequately staffed medical industry that is a farce.
Editorial Team
February 01, 1994
In the first issue of our newsletter we had referred to the ethical aspects involved in the diagnosis and management of patients with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). We alluded to the insistence in some hospitals on subjecting every patient to tests for the presence of Human Immune-de...
Sunil K Pandya
February 01, 2000
All our hospitals - in the public and private sector - share a common characteristic. They function in secrecy. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to extract any information from the authorities in charge. When the information requested pertains to complications suffered by one or more...
Anonymous
February 01, 2000
A relationship between a doctor and a patient is based on the principle that the patient must have autonomy in making decisions. Such autonomy has been necessitated by two factors that override the obvious expertise of the doctor. First, the decisions to be made concern the health and life of the...
McLean Sheila AM
February 01, 1994
The Indian Express (5 February 1994) featured a story on proposed surgery on mentally handicapped women that weekend at the Sassoon General Hospital in Poona . Dr. Shirish Sheth, consultant obstetrician and gynecologist in Bombay was to remove the uterus from each of several such women.
Editorial Team
August 01, 2000
Patients sue their doctors principally to gain sums of money as compensation for damage done to than. The victims of such litigation suffer considerably when they are innocent. One consequence of this sorry state of affairs has been the practice of 'defensive medicine', which, in turn, impo...
Sunil K Pandya
April 01, 2014
When addressing toxins, one unmistakable parallel exists between biology and politics: developing children and developing nations are those most vulnerable to toxic exposures. This disturbing parallel is the subject of this critical review, which examines the use and distribution of the mercury (...
Lisa K Sykes, David A Geier, Paul G King, Janet K Kern, Boyd E Haley, Carmen G Chaigneau, Mary N Megson, James M Love, Robert E Reeves, Mark R Geier
February 17, 2020
One of the biggest components of the disciplines, Sociology and Social Anthropology is fieldwork. Despite the significance of fieldwork as a method, there is limited scholarship on the myriad experiences of the fieldworker. This commentary emphasises the need to document field narratives of resea...
Jagriti Gangopadhyay