It has been just over a week since I received the news that my dear friend Anita Ghai was in the ICU. The next day she had left us. I had known Anita for over four decades since our days as undergraduate students of Psychology at Indraprastha College. Knowing Anita...
Background: Professionalism has been identified as a key competency for physicians to conduct, effective and ethical practice. The current competency-based medical education curriculum lays great emphasis on the development of attitude, ethics, and communication (A...
Background: Childhood cancer has been ranked the most common cause of death due to non-communicable disease among 5- to 14-year-old children in India. Ethical concerns have been identified in the care of children with cancer in India, yet there is a paucity of ethi...
The increase in life expectancy over the last century has brought with it new challenges of providing quality care towards end-of-life. Saudi Arabia has embraced this new challenge and incorporated it within its governing Islamic principles. The country has investe...
Charaka Samhita, the foremost of ayurvedic classics, categorically states that observations and inferences drawn therefrom are the primary means through which ayurvedic knowledge has been acquired and codified. It declares that, of all types of evidence, that vouch...
Background: Ancient deoxyribonucleic acid (aDNA) research studies the genomes of human ancestors. Since the archaeological remains that carry this aDNA are often those of the non-living ancestors of living humans, one less explored question is whether aDNA researc...
I read with great interest the article by Khaliq et al on using trigger films to educate undergraduate medical students about the doctor-patient relationship [1]. The authors used Bollywood movie clips with English subtitles.
In this paper, I argue for approaching Ayurveda and Hindu knowledge systems in a qualia-centric manner, the way their originators intended. The materialist assumptions that underlie modern medicine, while undeniably effective, are not the only way to understand the...