The Medical Council of India’s latest order for doctors is that they should write legibly on prescriptions, preferably in capital letters. The gazette notification regarding this came out last month. It says, “Every physician should prescribe drugs with generic names legibly and preferably in capital letters, and he/she shall ensure that there is a rational […]
A study suggests that doctors are way better than symptom-checker points at reaching a correct diagnosis. A head-to-head comparison showed that human doctors with access to the same info about medical history and symptoms as a symptom checker had a 72 percent success in reaching the right diagnosis. For apps, it was just 34 percent. […]
A circular issued by the Medical Council of India states that the postgraduate diploma in HIV Medicine, Health Management, Maternal and Child Health and Geriatric Medicine offered by IGNOU are illegal. The circular declared PG courses in emergency medicine offered by Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital in Mumbai and AMRI Hospital in Bhubaneshwar as illegal as […]
The two-room government dispensary in Amritsar’s Naushera Dhalla village is just 200 metres from the India-Pakistan border. Since September 28 when the Uri attack happened, the work shift for an employee has gone up from 6 to 10 hours. However, the only doctor in the dispensary was moved to camps for evacuated villagers in another […]
The Madras High Court Bench dismissed a public interest litigation petition that sought a direction to the State government and Tamil Nadu Medical Council to ban private practice of government doctors in all cadres. The plea was made on the ground that doctors could concentrate more on treating patients at government hospitals. The plea was […]
Recently, two instances of cases being filed against doctors under IPC 336-a criminal act has happened in the subcontinent. Even though both the cases look like therapeutic misadventures the charges are of criminal act, which could result in the imprisonment of the doctors. The first reported misuse from 28 years ago The first reported misuse […]
The hospital that Dr.Ganesh Rakh started in 2007 in Pune delivers girl babies for free. This is done as part of the doctor’s effort to reverse Indian’s preference for male children. As Dr Rakh said to reporters, “As a medical professional I have seen the torture that a mother undergoes when she comes to know […]
Multiple instances of assault Following the death of a seven year old girl, her relatives claimed negligence, attacked the doctors and vandalized Apollo Hospital, Bannerghatta Road in Bangalore on Wednesday. The relatives attacked five doctors and ransacked the ICU. The girl was admitted after Tuesday midnight with symptoms of fever, headache and vomiting. The hospital […]
At around 1 AM Thursday, docs from Bengaluru travelled to Tamil Nadu with an ailing patient who required liver transplant. The donor, who was declared brain dead on Wednesday after he suffered head injuries in a crash, was from Erode in TN. The docs from Manipal Hospital travelled with the patient in a Karnataka-registered ambulance […]
The idea of a personal tragedy leading to something that’s to the advantage of the society isn’t limited to fiction. At least, that’s what the story of how Advanced Trauma Life Support(ATLS) came into being shows: The year 1976 turned out to be tragic for Dr.Jin Styner. In that year, the American orthopedic surgeon crashed […]