Sometime back, when I was a trainee, we used to get patients at the end of their life. They would come to us tired and dejected (and angry) after treatment from premier hospitals all over the country; having tried various form of alternative therapies and charlatans. And we would evaluate them and send them back …
Category Archives: surgery
Patients Overcrowding in ER? Lets hangout in Hallways!! few are in cafeteria-
(Image from dailylife .com) I came across this article while surfing which made me read it again carefully. The health blog in the wall street journal describes a novel way of managing Emergency overcrowding Here’s one way to ease overcrowding in the emergency room: Move patients to the hallway. Some hospitals are giving it a …
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Lessons from Sharks on reducing infections.
Interesting article in the Wall street journal health blog The ocean is full of slow-swimming creatures covered with algae and barnacles. But some slow-swimming sharks stay pretty clean. A University of Florida researcher thinks that has to do, at least in part, with the microscopic pattern of shark skin, which makes an inhospitable environment for …
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WHO issues a surgical checklist.
A lot has been written about surgical errors during operation including incidents of left behind surgical instruments, wrong site surgery, operating on wrong patients and so on. The WHO has issued a checklist which it hopes will go a long way in reducing such errors by enforcing a ‘time out’ when all personnel participating in …
Second opinion at a distance
There is an interesting piece of new in todays USA today about taking second opinion for health conditions online from experts. You send your medical records with or without your primary doctor’s help via internet to Experts( places providing paid service) and get their opinion after a week or so. Online second-opinion services offer patients …
Reversible Vasectomy
At present Vasectomy is the only reliable method of male contraception. While it is relatively simple procedure and quite cheap besides the fact that the government pays you to get it done, yet it is not that popular. The reasons for that is the irreversibility of the procedure and the perception of loss of ‘manhood’. …