An estimated 2.5 million people in India have earned bits of medical knowledge by working as a doctor’s assistant or from a chemist or even a relative. These people prefer to be called doctors and treat patients-especially in rural areas where a real doctor is not to be found. They are among the ones who […]
That Dr Dwakaranath S Kotnis is held in high esteem by another nation can be seen by the fact that every time a Chinese leader pays a visit to India, it’s usual for him/her to meet the family of the Indian doctor. Dr Kotnis was sent to China as part of a medical mission from […]
Amidst concerns from doctors and parents of medical students about the proposed National Exit Test(NEXT), experts are pointing out the impracticality of such an exam. At a panel discussion that was held in Mumbai on Sunday, experts said that NEXT cannot act as a licensing test for doctors. The Indian Medical Council(Amendment) Bill 2015 has […]
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%. […]