Medical Council of India (MCI) has announced that it will no longer be making public the minutes of any of its ethics committee meetings. These are the meetins where medical negligence cases and cases of professional misconduct by doctors are heard. No minutes from ethics committee metings have been uploaded to the MCI website since […]
Chennai’s rains and floods were no match for city-based woman doctor Padma Priya who worked a 96 hour stretch to help deliver 17 babies at a private hospital. Dr Padma Priya who stayed at Apollo Speciality Hospital on OMR (Old Madras Road) since Friday (Dec 4) helped deliver 13 babies. By Sunday 17 healthy babies were […]
More than one in four doctors in the early stages of their careers have signs of depression, says a study. The study states harsh and gruelling years of training leading towards the medical job are to blame. This is not only bad for young doctors but also for the patients they see. Depressed doctors are […]