On a night in August 1999, the car of Vadodara-based doctor Subroto Das hit a tree by the highway. Three persons were injured. However, they had to wait for almost five hours before help arrived. It was the acute helplessness the doctor and his fellow travelers experienced on that night which led to an initiative […]
Research conducted by a Bengaluru based ophthalmologist has found out that autophagy could be used in treating severe ophthalmological ailments like keratoconus, dry eyes and age-related degeneration. Dr Rohit Shetty has devised a therapeutic method based on the cells’ defense mechanism to cure eye-related problems. The doctor’s work is based on the study by Yoshinori […]
Doctors and nurses from the St Thomas Hospital in London rushed from the building towards the scene where a terrorist attack had pedestrians hurt. Images from the scene depict the hospital staffers helping the injured even as the terror was still in the air. A junior doctor who rushed to the scene, Colleen Anderson said […]
Government data reveals that every second heart attack patient in the subcontinent takes over 400 minutes to arrive at a hospital. That’s 13 times more than the ideal window of 30 minutes. The two-year data is from the ongoing Management of Acute Coronary Event(MACE) registry of the Indian Council of Medical Research(ICMR). It shows that […]
A few students at the NRI Medical College in Andhra Pradesh have created a video song depicting their travails in gaining admissions based on NEET. The song is a parody on the travails that farmers face in Telugu superstar Chiranjeevi’s film. Khaidi No. 150. The video was directed by Gade Ravindra, the HoD of the […]
Complementing the rising number of attacks on doctors by patient’s kin is another fact- the dismal number of convictions in these cases. For instance, as per a Time of India report, 53 doctors have been attacked in the last two years, but not even a single conviction has happened. As for the assaults themselves, even […]
As part of the recently held ‘Difficult Dialogues’ conference in Goa, a discussion on “What plagues Indian Doctors” was held. One of the participants was Dr. Terence Stephenson, a Nuffield Professor of Child Health, Institute of Child Health, University College of London. In an article that he wrote for The Hindu, Stephenson mentions the viability […]
The world applauds Indian doctors yet again as doctors at a hospital in Noida successfully performed a difficult bone marrow transplant on an eight month old baby. The baby was suffering from severe combined immunodeficiency- a rare genetic disease. The surgery saved his life. Mujib- the baby- is from Afghanistan. Two of his elder brothers […]
The relatives of a 60 year old patient trashed a doctor at the Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and Medical College, Sion in Mumbai. The assault happened after the patient, who suffered from chronic kidney ailment died. Three people have been arrested related to this. This is the third act of violence against doctors in […]
Close on the heels of a series of attacks on doctors by patient’s kin comes a related study. The study says that what’s needed is a well-coordinated communication system and not stringent laws or penalties. The study was prepared by a team of researchers who looked into the poor scenario of doctor-patient relationship in India. […]