Should we share the management of acute life-threatening medical emergencies on the telephone? [0.03%]
我们应该通过电话分享急性生命威胁性医疗紧急事件的处理吗？
Himmatrao Saluba Bawaskar
Himmatrao Saluba Bawaskar
Daily, I receive 3-4 social media messages regarding the diagnosis, management or clinical dilemmas of acute timelimiting medical emergencies due to snake bite and scorpion sting poisoning. I respond to the caller who has shared clinical si...
What is wrong with the MCI? [0.03%]
MCI有何不足？
Mrinal Prakash Barua,Vivek Mishra,Mukesh Singla
Mrinal Prakash Barua
In the wake of the Medical Council of India's (MCI) take on the promotion of faculty recently, it is clear that the faculty of medical institutions across the country are in a state of alarm. A situation in which the whole onus of research ...
Avinash DeSousa
Avinash DeSousa
Over-the-counter use of medication via chemists, including the use of psychiatric medication, has always been a cause of worry in the Indian subcontinent. Over the last two years, the rules on dispensing psychiatric medication have become s...
Of moulds and medals [0.03%]
模具与奖章
Reeta S Mani
Reeta S Mani
The white and fluffy mycelial growth that I had observed 48 hours ago had turned a mottled grey. I inverted the plate of Sabouraud's dextrose agar (SDA) to examine its reverse. A sinister ochre stared at me.
Ravindra B Ghooi,Kelly Dhru,Sheela Jaywant
Ravindra B Ghooi
Many individuals at the end of life are unable to convey their wishes regarding medical treatments. Advance directives (ADs) or living wills (LWs) allow them to crystallise their wishes in a written form so that these can be carried out if ...
Does "supported decision-making" in India's Mental Health Care Bill, 2013, measure up to the CRPD's standards? [0.03%]
印度《2013年精神卫生保健法案》中的"辅助性决策"符合联合国《残疾人权利公约》的要求吗？
Mukul Inamdar,Michael Ashley Stein,Joske Bunders
Mukul Inamdar
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) requires States to replace their mental health laws based on substitute decision-making for persons with mental health issues with laws based on the supported decision-making ...
Ethics in occupational health and safety: case studies from Gujarat [0.03%]
职业健康与安全伦理学——来自古吉拉特邦的案例研究
Jagdish Patel,Siddarth David
Jagdish Patel
Rapid industrialisation in India is giving employment to millions of people in the formal sector, and many more in the unorganised sector. However, the absence of clear policies, poorly enforced regulations, lack of systematic reporting of ...
George Thomas
George Thomas
In 1956, the four-year-old republic of India replaced the colonial Indian Medical Council with the Medical Council of India (MCI). This institution was meant to guide the young republic in establishing a modern system of medical education a...
Vijayaprasad Gopichandran
Vijayaprasad Gopichandran
This comment contains the reflections of a first-time participant in the 13th International Association of Bioethics Congress (IAB 2016), held from June 14 to 17, 2016, in Edinburgh. At the outset, I would like to make a couple of clarifica...
John H Noble Jr
John H Noble Jr
There are always rival hypotheses to explain away the one that is posited as the most likely to be true. Context and Occam's razor - the principle that among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected - ult...