Part of Dr Mahati Chittem’s job is to study trends in which society responds to various health issues and medical treatments. She is a medical psychologist who investigates how people fall ill and how the physical illness affects them emotionally, psychologically and behaviorally. Chittem’s current focus is on cancer. Chittem tracks the emotional path of […]
Arjun was brought to the Bahraich district hospital in Uttar Pradesh when he was 4 years old. That was in 2008. Now, the boy is 13 years old. However, he’s still in the hospital campus, earning him the moniker ‘the son of the hospital’! It’s said that Arjun shares a special relationship with the hospital […]
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare conducts the ‘Mera Aspataal’ (“My Hospital”) survey every year to collect patient’s feedback about government hospitals. In this year’s survey, of the 22% patients who said they were dissatisfied with their experience with AIIMS, the major reason was staff behavior. Although this pertains to just one hospital, doctor’s […]
On January 31, 2017, veteran politician, E Ahamed was rushed to the Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in New Delhi after suffering a massive heart attack. He was immediately put in life support system at the ICU. Notwithstanding the doctors’ multiple efforts, he passed away. Allegation of lack of ethics However, the patient’s daughter Fouziya […]
A bunch of surgeons at the MY Hospital in Indore hit the news recently for the right reason when they spent money from their own pockets to facilitate a surgery aside from performing the surgery itself. The complex surgery which took more than 8 hours was to remove the oesophagus and to reconstruct it using […]
Here is an instance in which proper informed consent and treatment as well as well-maintained record as per SOP saved medical professionals from a claim of Rs. 1.5 Crore. This judgment came about in the case of Shashi Dvivedi v/s Dr.Mukund Prasad (Paras Hosptal, Patna). The case that was filed The case was filed by the […]
When Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer at the age of 36 he was just 15 months away from finishing training as a neurosurgeon. The cancer was inoperable and Kalanithi was facing a certain death in the near future. To chronicle his views on life and also the changes that struck him […]
Dr Nomula Hemalatha is someone who made a desire she had as a child a reality in adulthood- the desire to serve the poorest of the rural community. The doctor has now been helping people for over 4 decades in the village of Vavilala in Telengana- a village that’s not just tucked away in the […]
Patients at Ram Mohan Lohla Hospital, AIIMS, PGI Chandigarh and NIMHAMS will exercise from next month what could become a permanent fixture in the Indian medial landscape-they will provide feedback regarding the quality of services which will help determine the rating for the hospital. As a way to provide star ratings to government health facilities, […]
Doctors at the Government Medical College in Amritsar were attacked by relatives of a patient who died in the hospital. The attack was so severe that the arm of one of the doctors-Jagbir Singh was broken. Two other doctors- Sukhdeep Singh and Inderjot Kaur were also attacked. The junior resident doctors of the hospital had […]