The Exit exam for MBBS graduates to become doctors which has been recently proposed has become the cause of protests from doctors and medical students in different parts of the country. Protest on the ground In Madurai for instance, the members of the Tamil Nadu Government Doctors’ Association (TNGDA), IMA(Madurai branch) and medical students formed […]
Dr. Lalitkumar Anande is the chief medical officer of Sewri Tuberculosis Hospital in Mumbai- considered to be the largest such facility in India. The 53 year old doctor is considered to be a one man army against the disease. In the last four years alone, he has communicated to more than a lakh people in […]
A doctor has recently registered a patent for a vaccination against common cold-a condition which doctors around the world have long thought couldn’t have a medicinal cure. The doctor behind the vaccination is Rudolf Valenta who is an allergy expert at the Medical University of Vienna. According to him the immune system of the body […]
Future and Hope are two words that are more entwined with each other than most other words. And in no other field is this more evident than medicine, where the difference between hope and the lack of it could be the line that divides life from death. So, keeping to the idea of hope, here […]
Dr Ashok Sankhpal is a medical doctor who was posted for nine months near Al Ramtha in Jordan- very close to the Syrian border, not the safest place to be in at this point in time. He expresses the horror thus: “I could hear the bombings every day and with every bomb explosion, about 50 […]
A new study conducted in India shows that many doctors suffer from burnout-related symptoms such as emotional exhaustion, dissatisfaction or lack of feeling. For the study, about 500 doctors responded to a 25 point questionnaire. Some of the key aspects that the answers revealed were: • Lack of opportunities to evolve(“My work doesn’t offer me […]
Dr Namdev Shinde is a gynecologist with about 25 years of experience. The bulk of the experience is in the government service. Back in 2013, a patient in a serious condition was brought in to the hospital where he worked. It was considered that the chances of the patient’s survival was as low as 2%. […]
Receiving fluids intravenously is now a common enough therapeutic tool. But the practice’s origin can be traced back to man’s effort to defeat the bacteria responsible for cholera. Back in 1831, a particularly bad strain of cholera broke out from the banks of the Ganges in India and spread rapidly to Iran, Russia and China […]
The ever-increasing cases of violence against doctors by relatives or attendants of patients has finally prompted the government to mull over drafting a central law which will ensure the protection of the caregivers. More than 75% of doctors in India are reported to have faced violence in one form or the other as per as […]
The Indian Medical Council (Amendment) Bill which makes provision for an exit test for MBBS graduates was introduced earlier this week. The Union health ministry’s draft has it that only those MBBS graduates who pass the National Exit Test(called NEXT) could practice medicine. However, surprisingly or not, many people- doctors and concerned parents among them […]