The 43rd annual convocation of AIIMS on Sunday October 18th, saw Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Union Health Minister J P Nadda make statements with a focus on improving medical education and practice among doctors. Mr. Jaitley while addressing students and faculty at the convocation function pushed for relaxation of the medical council and muncipal norms […]
A doctor who was returning from her honeymoon ended up delivering a baby on an overseas flight when a fellow passenger went into early labor. When Dr. Angelica Zen, resident physician at UCLA boarded her Air China flight from Taiwan to Los Angeles after her honeymoon she expected it to be a long but normal […]
With an aim to better utilize blood and blood components, the Health Ministry has allowed the transfer of blood from one blood bank to another.The government has also fixed an exchange value for surplus plasma available at some blood banks in the country. The new initiative will ensure safe blood and enhanced access to blood […]
Resident doctor beaten up by police constable. Cross complaints filed by both parties. The doctor suffered multiple injuries and witnesses say he was attacked first, but the constable alleges that the doctor started the scuffle. A police constable attacked Dr. Karma Bhutiya, an orthopedic resident at Sassoon hospital Pune, reportedly because the doctor’s shoulder brushed […]
I want to tell you a story. It may seem like a fairy tale. In many ways, it is. It is a journey that zigzags across all the corners of the globe over dozens of centuries, featuring saints and sceptics, sleeping chickens and screaming men. This, my dear friends, is the story of how your […]
Doctors and medical staff went on a ‘flash strike’ at VN Desai Hospital in Santa Cruz (Mumbai) on Friday, after a politician verbally abused a doctor for not admitting a fever patient. Medical services were severely affected with several patients being turned away the whole day. Prem Gupta (15) was brought to the hospital by […]
Delhi High Court has restrained Gelenmark from making and marketing generic versions of Merck Sharp & Dhome (MSD)’s anti-diabetic drug Januvia (sitagliptin) and Janumet (combination of sitagliptin and metformin) by coming out with their own drugs containing the same salts. The restrain on Gelnmark from making, using or selling, distributing, advertising, exporting, offering for sale […]
How Humiliating! Why should doctors taste Indrani Mukerjea’s food at JJ Hospital before she eats it?
Is murder accused Indrani Mukerjea’s life more important than a doctor’s? Apparently so! Is a doctor’s life less precious than that of a murder accused? Are doctors really studying and working so hard all these years just to become guinea pigs? Why should a doctor taste a patient’s food to check for poisoning? These were […]
Junior doctor gets hand broken by patient’s friends simply for asking the patient to stand in line! Dr. Rahul Vaswani – Junior Resident in Ophthalmology studying at SMS Medical College (Jaipur) was working in the OPD yesterday. As patients lined up for treatment, he asked one patient to get in line. To his horror, this […]
Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi in recent times has come under a lot of negative press for not being able to handle the dengue outbreak in Delhi and for its inability to provide patient care up to expected standards. However, this article reveals what Dr. Ashish Jha (Expert in International Health Policy & Managaement and also […]