Maharashtra’s State Authorisation Committee refusal to agree to a “domino kidney transplant” on Sunday has led Mumbai’s medical fraternity to strongly say that the law needs to be changed to save lives of more patients who are waiting for donor kidneys. The committee has currently refused permission to one of the pairs queued up. The reason given […]
50 men vandalised and ransacked Cottage Hospital in Chicalim (Goa) enraged over the death of a 22 year old youth. The mob blamed the hospital and the lady duty doctor in-charge for the death. They even attempted to attack her. The series of events at the hospital unfolded as follows: Nov 6, 2015 – Friday: […]
Getting gold knee caps seems to be the latest trend catching on in Hyderabad ! For a high 2 lakhs this knee cap has 7 layer coating of – Zirconium nitride over the traditional cobalt-chrome product. It is the nitride that gives the ‘yellow’ implant look and not actual gold plating that people think. Experts […]
Aditya Bandopadhyay has treated the sick for more than twenty years. He works in the village of Salbadra, in the state of West Bengal, India. He has no degree in medicine. Bandopadhyay was trained in the rudiments of clinical medicine by a homeopath who also happened to practise modern medicine on the side. Bandopadhyay charges […]
Violence against doctors in India is at all time high. There have been protests, strikes, dharnas and petitions signed but not to much avail. Every other day, there is a case of an attack on a doctor and it has been noted that 75% of doctors have been attacked of which 48% occur in ICUs. How […]
The National IMA Satyagraha for Healthy India will take place on Nov 16, 2015. The Satyagraha aims to summarize advocacy points for the Indian doctor community by securing the signatures of 11 lakh doctors A recent study has shown that over 75% of doctors in India have faced some form of violence. A whopping 48% […]
The doctor who was under suspension following the death of a cameraman at Thiruvananthapuram’s General Hospital was reinstated in to service on Sunday. An expert committe found “no negligence” on the part of the doctor. “The suspension has been revoked after an expert committee report stated there was no negligence on the part of the doctor […]
A month since their course has ended but 6,000 MBBS students (whole 2015 batch) in Karnataka are not able to either apply for higher studies or get registered with the Karnataka Medical Council to practise even though they have completed internships in the hospitals to which their colleges are affiliated. This is thanks to the confusion […]
This is the story of Jean Sharon Abbott from Plymouth, Minnesota. At the age of 4, Jean developed symptoms consistent with spastic diplegia and was hence diagnosed with the same.Her parents got a second opinion which confirmed the diagnosis. The next two decades of Jean’s life went along as well as it could for a […]
A doctor was suspended without enquiry for a Media person’s death in Casualty. Media alleged the doctor gave a “wrong injection” which caused the death. The actual cause of death turns out to be massive ICH. The incident took place at the General Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram. Yesterday a cameraman of a prominent newspaper in Kerala was brought […]