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Public perception and state propaganda against doctors

Increasing deaths among Doctors due to Stress

Doctors in India (meaning only those of modern scientific medicine) are victims of massive state-sponsored propaganda for the last few decades. The constant and persistent high-decibel hammering from every pulpit recognisable has had its effect on the general public, which is gullible enough not to differentiate propaganda from fact. Gradually, the public sentiment too has […]

Can a Gynaecologist be an expert witness in the MLC involving Chest Medicine or Neurology? Read to Find Out

Stethoscope court

The National Commission was dealing with this question and expressed its concern that it’s high time in India to have strategies for regulating expert witness testimony in medical negligence cases. M/S. SANKAR PRASAD BOSE & ANR V/s. DR. B.N. BASU MEMORIAL CLINIC APOLLO NURSING HOME & 3 ORS http://cms.nic.in/ncdrcusersWeb/GetJudgement.do… Facts in Brief : 1. 90 […]

HOSPICON 2016

HOSPICON

HOSPICON Sancheti Healthcare Academy, Pune conducts Post graduate Diploma Course in Hospital Management (PGDHM) for last 32 years. In addition, MBA in Healthcare Administration course of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS), Nashik, is also relocated to Sancheti Healthcare Academy from April 2015. Students of Sancheti Healthcare Academy have been organizing their Annual event, […]

KEM Hospital Doctors Resume Work After Demands Being Met

Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctor MARD Logo

Maharashtra Association of Resident Doctors (MARD) has called off the strike by resident doctors of KEM Hospital after their demands were met by the officials. After due deliberations with the administration, KEM MARD has decided to join back on duty from 5 pm onwards today (27th September 2015). The main demand that all 4 accused […]

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation opens free TB medicine gate to all

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation opens free TB medicine gate to all

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation opens free TB medicine gate to all Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation opens free TB medicine gate to all PUNE: Tuberculosis (TB) patients seeking treatment at private hospitals anywhere in the state will no longer have to pay for the expensive drugs. At present, only patients registered with government-run healthcare […]

Kent RO “Doctors’ 1st choice” ad Disapproved by advertising council

Kent RO Purifier’s advertisement claiming that it provides the safest drinking water has been held by the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) to contravene the council’s code and the company has been asked to modify or withdraw the ad or seek a review of the decision by September 15.   After examining a complaint […]

IMA urges doctors not to register clinics

ARA: The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has appealed to doctors practising in the state not to register their clinics under the Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation) Act as the matter is pending in the Patna high court. At a meeting organized by the Ara branch of IMA and attended by, among others, IMA national vice-president […]

STAY IN INDIA, SAYS GOVT; DON’T FORCE US, SAY DOCTORS IN MAHA

MARD moves court against govt’s decision which nullifies chances of doctors going abroad to practice. Doctors in Maharashtra are a peeved lot as the government has stopped issuing a key certificate that enables them to practice abroad. They say they have been singled out as the education of IIT and IIM students is also subsidised […]

CBFC lands in trouble for approving objectionable content in Gabbar is Back

    Dr. KK Aggarwal, the National General Secretary of IMA India, had drafted letter in the first week of May and sent it to I&B Minister, Arun Jaitley, regarding a complaint against Akshay Kumar starrer Gabbar is Back. The latest on this matter is that the medical association might drag CBFC to court, as […]