Many doctors in the city of Bengaluru are switching careers because of poor pay and prospects, says a recent report which appeared in Times of India(TOI). For instance, the report talks about Shakil Ahmed who landed an MBBS seat 12 years back-something he was quite happy about. However, it was only since he became a […]

The Indian doctor is a tired person. Faced with the task of looking after patients while his/her own self is crushed with stress – due to work overload and more. Yet, s/he still manages to do great things. Things that make for excellent reasons to respect him. Particularly true on this National Doctor’s Day. 1. Despite […]

It’s ironic that while hospitals have counselors for patients, the same provision is often lacking for the doctors. Stretching his limits to the utmost, serving more number of patients a day than could be considered sane, the Indian doctor works under extreme stress. And it’s showing. Emotionally exhausted, high on stress As Dr.Keerthi Pai, a […]

A response made by PGIMER(Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research), Chandigarh to an application by The Indian Express under the RTI ACT shows that between 1994 and December 31, 2014 six resident doctors had contracted tuberculosis among mortuary staffers. One came down with Hepatitis B. Though the various AIIMS and PGIMER hospitals across […]

Drama unfolded at the Christian Medical College and Hospital(CMCH) in Ludhiana when a patient’s relatives protested for more than two hours, alleging negligence. The incident occurred on Monday. 42 year old Hazara Singh was a resident of the Bonkar Village, Mattewara. He was admitted to CMCH on 7th June after a heart attack he suffered […]

The cease work initiated by the junior doctors of SSKM Hospital,Kolkata following the assault on a colleague by a patient’s relative has yielded result. Following the cease work which lasted around 16 hours, the hospital authorities have assured that proper security measures will be installed within the hospital premises. But the authorities did not agree […]

Dr.Sunil Noothi found himself jobless once he was forced to move back to India after working as a research scientist in a US university for under three years. The reason he had to come back- the refusal of the Centre to issue him a no obligation to return to India(NORI) certificate. The refusal came in […]

Claudio Vitale was 59 years old when he performed the surgery that gained him quite a bit of media attention in the west. The reason was not the prominence of the surgery itself but the way he performed it. To be more precise, he did it while having a heart attack. Vitale,a neurosurgeon in Naples […]

India needs a standardized unified healthcare system, to reduce the gap between the ‘quality’ of healthcare the rich and the poor are getting. Bihar People’s Health Movement and National Sample Survey have come across shocking data such as – average cost per admission at a government hospital costs 7 times the monthly income, instances of ghost […]

A Syrian surgeon who said Indian doctors should ‘clean toilets, not practice medicine’, and claimed they would be the ‘downfall of the NHS’ has been struck off the medical register.  Dr Ragheb Nouman, 52, also called a colleague an ‘Indian b******’ during an argument in front of patients at a hospital bus stop, but blamed his racist […]