HOME
Category: Research Articles
August 01, 2000
The front page of the Indian Express on Sunday, 20 June 1993 featured a story on a pregnant woman, seriously ill with tetanus, admitted to the Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals in Bombay. The patient and fetus were being monitored in the medical intensive care unit and appr...
August 01, 1993
A short while ago, interventions were carried out by doctors (presumably under 'orders' from 'higher authorities') on persons competent to make decisions despite their protests. This raises the following issue: What does a medical practitioner do when the dictates of 'employers'/' State' co...
August 01, 1993
The Journal of Medical Ethics is published by the BMJ Publishing Group for the Institute of Medical Ethics in England.
August 01, 2000
In the issue of Journal of Medical Ethics dated March 1993 (19, 7-12, 1993) Povl Riis of Denmark pleads for uniform standards for medical ethics in Europe. In doing so he makes several statements that are worth pondering.
August 01, 1993
Alarmed by the current state of affairs, a group of concerned doctors have formed the FME to focus attention on the need for ethical norms and practices in our profession. The FME fielded a team for election to the Maharashtra Medical Council. (Dr. Kamath narrates this story in our opening ...
August 01, 1993
Some large hospitals in Bombay insist that every patient seeking investigation or treatment should undergo tests to check for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV).
August 01, 1993
I swear by Apollo the physician, by Asclepius, by Health, by Panacea and by all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will carry out, according to my ability and Judgment, this oath and this indenture; to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents: to make him pa...
November 01, 1993
I saw a friend of mine, a consultant, earning a hundred rupees from a patient. He placed sixty rupees into the ever willing hands of the local general practitioner (G. P.) who had brought the patient to him with a diagnosis of 'chronic appendicitis'. The G. P. instructed my friend to get a ...
November 01, 1993
The title of this book by Professor James Calnan, Emeritus Professor of Plastic Surgery at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith is, in itself, thought-provoking. Talking with - and not to - patients is what we should really be doing, listening to what they say (or wish to say ...
November 01, 1993
Communal riots shook Bombay in two phases, first during December, 1992 (in the aftermath of the demolition of Babari Masjid), and then in January 1993. As a surgeon working in a public hospital which absorbed a large number of casualties during the riots, I could observe distinct difference...