This here is a very interesting question from a pre-med who is sure he isn’t made out to be a doctor- I don’t want to be a doctor!-
This has been further picked up and taken apart word by word and then some at the Sepia.
I think everyone goes through these phase of life like Typical Confused College Student here. Really nice reverse engineering here of the issue.
It is a fact that a large number of Indian medical graduates leave India for abroad. US is the prefered destination followed by UK and Australia. Do you think that they should be barred from going out? The present Health Minister does think so. After the recent fracas and then strike by residents in AIIMS this is what he had to say that the premier institute was slowly becoming a “doctors’ factory” for foreign countries and not for the needy Indians.
“Over 60 percent of the AIIMS passouts are going outside India. It’s becoming a doctors’ factory that is producing talent for foreign countries and not for the poor Indians,”
This debate is age old i suppose. And at the same time i think the quantum of medical graduates going out has gone done. what with difficult to get visa and poor working environment in those countries. what would be your opinion?
Rest of the stories continues here
Doctor left a towel inside me, says 65-year-old. and from msn
Leaving behind instruments and gauze pieces after operation is certainly not a healthy practice. Besides being an extra burden for the patient; the doctrine of Res Ipsa loquitor applies with regard to negligence by the medical practitioner. Ordinarily acts of omission and comission need to be proved in court by expert evidence in court to determine negligence by a doctor but this need not be proved in case ” res ipsa loquitor” i.e “the thing or fact speaks for itself”. The reason for this post is this in todays news with regard to removal of ‘Sponge’ from a patient’s abdomen at a prominent institute.
A patient underwent open cholecystectomy (removal of gall bladder for stones) and complained of constant pain with purulent discharge. Investigations revealed a left over towel used for packing which was subsequently retrieved.
Now this is one of those cases when the surgeon will have to throw in his towel! The rule applies when (i). in the absence of negligence the injury would not have occured. (ii). the doctor had exclusive control over the injury producing agent. (iii). the patient was not guilty of contributory negligence.
Now this is a welcome news for me. Published in this months Hepatology
In an meta-analysis of 10 studies reviewed by Dr. Francesca Bravi from Milan’s Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche “Mario Negri” and colleagues included 2,260 cases of HCC. Collectively, the results showed a 41 percent reduction in the risk of liver cancer (or hepatocellular carcinoma, HCC) among coffee drinkers compared to those who never drank coffee.
Low to moderate coffee drinkers — defined in some studies as those who drank less than 3 cups per day and in others as less than 1 cup per day — had a 30 percent lower risk of HCC compared to coffee abstainers. High coffee consumption — defined in some studies as 3 cups or more each day and in others as 1 cup or more per day – had a 55 percent lower risk of HCC.
Earlier i had been wringing my heart while enjoying my cup. I will wait for the next news over my cuppa.