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Volume 10 Number 3 July - Sept 2002
| Editorials |
Anuj Sharma, Samiran Nundy |
| Rules of medical practice |
S P Kalantri |
| Time to Act? |
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| Discussion: health professionals and gujarat |
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Carnage in Gujarat: a public health crisis: excerpts from a report the investigation by Medico Friend Circle. |
S Bandewar, N Madhiwalla,Sarojini NB, D Mankad, R Priya, A Shukla, S Srinivasan, J Velankar |
| Public hospitals and medical profession (from the MFC report) |
S Bandewar et al |
| Doctors' interviews (from the MFC report) |
S Bandewar et al |
| Mental health professionals' response |
Harish Shetty |
| A hospital's politics affect its secular image |
Rupa Chinai |
| Original articles |
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| The vitamin controversy |
Y K Amdekar |
| Inspiring lives |
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| Is there any doctor who starves? |
Vithal Prabhu |
| Reprint |
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| Clinical tales in neurology: a vegetative existence |
K Rajasekharan Nair |
| Cancer: the right to life |
Harmala Gupta |
| Letters |
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| Bangalore: More transplant stories |
Sanjay A Pai |
| Chennai: Systematic subversion |
GeorgeThomas |
| Reports |
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| Workshop on ethical issues in health research, Trivandrum |
| Discussion on transplant ethics |
Rajan Patil |
| Book Review |
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| Surgery of the soul: reflections on a curious career, Joseph E Murray |
C Ramachandra |
| Document |
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| Indian Medical Council (Professional conduct, Etiquette and Ethics) Regulations, 2002 |
| Correspondence |
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| From the press |
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| From other journals |
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The political doctor
ARE doctors' political views relevant to their medical practice as long as they treat their patients without discriminating on the basis of religion? Can the profession prevent such biases from affecting the way they practice? Such questions are at the heart of an emerging debate within the profession. The Discussion section in this issue of the journal presents some food for thought on the subject. In any case, all people concerned with health will oppose the imminent closure of relief camps in Gujarat. The profession's responsibilities in times of conflict - in India and elsewhere - have also been highlighted in other sections of the journal, through excerpts from other publications.
It might be pertinent to refer to a comment by US ethicist Michael Grodin on the 50th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials. Doctors were indispensable to the Nazi ideology, he asserted. Half of the German medical profesion was active in the Nazi party, he said. Others did not speak out. Is this something to think about, if not today, in the future?
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