October 09, 2023
Background: The sensitivity and skill of care providers, especially physicians, while communicating bad news to patients can improve patients' acceptance of treatment and their emotional adjustment. We aimed to determine how to break bad news to cancer patients and consider their preferences i...
Kourosh Amini, Sahar Meshkini, Farhad Ramezanibadr
October 09, 2023
Background: Mobile phone-based interventions are being increasingly used in community health work in India. The extensive use of mobile phones in community health work is associated with several ethical issues. This review was conducted to identify the ethical issu...
Vijayaprasad Gopichandran, Sudharshini Subramaniam, Rajeswaran Thiagesan
October 09, 2023
Background: An outbreak of the Covid-19 has led to substantial mortality globally. The entire world is carrying out studies to understand the pathophysiology, clinical features, diagnosis and treatment of Covid-19. We investigated the possible association of type o...
Snehalata Gajbhiye, Chaitali Chindhalore , Ashish Gupta , Ganesh Dakhale
July 02, 2023
Background: Medical ethics teaching has received little attention in India's undergraduate medical curriculum, so the National Medical Commission’s formal inclusion of medical ethics in the new competency-based curriculum (CBME) is creditable. However, the policymakers have left out the most c...
Satendra Singh, Manish Solanki, Neelam Vaney, Anant Bhan
October 09, 2023
Background: There has been a gradual increase in disputes between doctors and patients in the healthcare system over the years. The aim of this review was to determine the speciality-wise prevalence of medical negligence in cases decided by the National Consumer Di...
Sanjay Sukumar
July 02, 2023
There are gross inequities in access to non-communicable disease (NCD) care in India. The Indian state of Tamil Nadu recently launched the “Medicine at people’s doorstep” (Makkalai Thedi Maruthuvam — MTM) scheme in which screening and medications for NCDs are delivered at people’s doorsteps. This...
Rajeswaran Thiagesan, Hilaria Soundari, Kalpana B, Vijayaprasad Gopichandran
April 30, 2023
Kishor Patwardhan’s ‘confession’ in this journal [1] has initiated the expected debate, which I hope leads to some good developments for the teaching and practice of Ayurveda. Before, commenting on this issue, I should myself confess that I am neither formally trained in Ayurveda nor practising i...
Subhash C Lakhotia
July 02, 2023
Carrying out fieldwork in private infertility clinics poses its own specific set of challenges. Gaining access to these field sites not only obliges researchers to negotiate with gatekeepers but also to deal with structures of hierarchy and power. Based on my preliminary fieldwork in Lucknow city...
Rashmi Patel
July 02, 2023
Covid-19 has devastated human lives and stretched the limits of the medical profession and health systems. Using the mixed methods of online survey and online focus group discussions, we assessed how medical students and interns of two medical colleges in South India viewed the profession they ha...
Manjulika Vaz, Sumithra S, Reshma Ravindra, Suhas Chandran, Sandhya Ramachandra , Olinda Timms
April 30, 2023
To understand the concept of dignity in care and use it in practice, nurses need a clear understanding of the dignity of patients, which can help them improve quality of care and provide services of a higher standard. This study aims to clarify the concept of human dignity of patients in nursing....
Vahid Zamanzadeh, Nasib Babaei , Leila Valizadeh, Marziyeh Avazeh
