As part of the recently held  ‘Difficult Dialogues’ conference in Goa, a discussion on “What plagues Indian Doctors” was held. One of the participants was Dr. Terence Stephenson, a Nuffield Professor of Child Health, Institute of Child Health, University College of London. In an article that he wrote for The Hindu, Stephenson mentions the viability […]

A Syrian surgeon who said Indian doctors should ‘clean toilets, not practice medicine’, and claimed they would be the ‘downfall of the NHS’ has been struck off the medical register.  Dr Ragheb Nouman, 52, also called a colleague an ‘Indian b******’ during an argument in front of patients at a hospital bus stop, but blamed his racist […]