The daughter of the gastroenterologist from Allahabad, who was beaten up recently has come out against the attack strongly in a facebook post. The video of the assault was also posted on YouTube. “My father was assaulted on the morning of the 12th of April.By the attendants of his patient who had died inside a […]
Over the last 6 months, at least 20 incidents of Doctors being attacked by patient’s relatives have been reported. Unreported cases could be even more. In one of the latest incidents, a senior Gastroenterologist from Allahabad was attacked inside the ICU premises because of death of a serious patient. A duty doctor in Panvel was […]
Our country is witnessing an attack on doctors every alternative day, which can be attributed to lax laws and implementation. But here is an Act that can land a doctor in jail for minor mistakes and the irony here is that this law is implemented strictly. Radiologists, gynecologists, sonologists and doctors alike united across the […]
New technology has been found that will facilitate head transplantation. However, attempts to transplant a head began earlier. In 1970, Robert White, an American neurosurgeon, with his colleagues, successfully transplanted the head of a rhesus monkey on the body of another one, whose head had been removed. The monkey lived 8 days and was normal, […]
Yet another shameful attack on a doctor was caught on surveillance, this time, in Allahabad. Dr.Rohit Gupta is a well practiced Gastroenterologist associated with multiple hospitals, Maa Sharda Hospital and Shakuntala hospital, Allahabad. As he was visiting the ICU to see a patient who had just passed away, he was brutally beaten up by the […]
Many med schools under the American Medical Association are seeing changes in what they are imparting to their students. Despite the dynamic character of medicine, medical training methods have remained static. Some of the top medical schools around US have realized the need to break down this frozen structure and find new ways to train […]
Indiana University School of Medicine researchers, Dr. Vreeman and Dr. Carroll, explored some commonly held medical beliefs or rather medical myths. The research, entitled “Medical Myths Even Doctors Believe” was published in the British Medical Journal. The researchers extensively searched medical literature and found no evidence to support these myths, but many doctors believed them. […]
Stringent quality and price monitoring is to be lined up by the government for stents, catheters, MRI machines and other such medical devices. Separate regulator and law to keep a check on diagnostic equipment, implants as well as hospital equipment available in the country has been recommended by an inter-ministerial task force on medical devices. […]
“In nothing do men more nearly approach the Gods than in giving health to men” Cicero in his quote mentions ‘nearly’ and makes it clear that doctors too are mortal beings, who simply strive their best to save lives. However, many see this gift as an absolute and turn to them with pitchforks […]
Dr.Marthanda Pillai, the national president of the Indian Medical Association, shot an array of criticisms at the draft new health policy (dNHP). Dr. Pillai, a leading neurosurgeon who received the Padma Shri award for his work in neurosurgery and service to the poor in performing surgeries free of cost, feels that the dNHP is not […]