Life in India Archive


Note: Though this is a medical post that concerns hospital care in the USA, I believe the issues covered in these videos are universally applicable to hospitals and patients all over the world. I urge everyone, especially those visitors who are not from the USA to view the videos.

In a series of three short [...]


To overcome the acute shortage and uneven distribution of human resources in public health delivery system, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare aims at overhauling the current regulatory framework. Toward this end, it is proposed to set up a National Council for Human Resources in Health as an overarching regulatory body to achieve the [...]


Note: This post is related to the previous post requesting support for the NCHRH bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. Again, I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in all the other myriad ways [...]


Note: This post is a request for support for a healthcare related bill that is likely to be proposed in the Indian Parliament this year. I would greatly appreciate any publicity that you can give for this issue. Please link, reblog, tweet, digg, stumble, or share in all the other myriad ways of Web 2.0.
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Such is Life


I was called to do an urgent bedside ultrasound scan of the abdomen for a trauma victim.
The patient was a young man of twenty-four who had been involved in a road traffic accident (RTA = MVA in US medical terminology). He had been brought - without any kind of basic life support - after sustaining [...]


I got an email a few days ago from a dentist appreciating an older post of mine in which I had posted CT images of a ‘lost & found’ tooth. Dr. Vijayalakshmi, BDS, FFDRCS is a dental surgeon practising in my hometown, Coimbatore and had graduated from a dental college in Salem, the place where [...]


to radiologists & hospitals in India…
THINK TWICE
BEFORE BUYING ULTRASOUND SCANNERS
FROM A FAMOUS GERMAN COMPANY!!
Their equipment may be good, but the reliability is questionable compared to equivalent American & Japanese ultrasound scanners.
Read the fine print in their service contract.
If possible, insist on and get a 2 or 3 year extended warranty / [...]

Friends of Zippy have been worried that it’s been a while since there was an update about his adventures.
Partly my fault. I apologize.
I say partly because, I hardly ever see Zippy. He’s too busy. He’s been having a lot of fun with my daughter and her friends!

Read more about the fun times that Zippy shared [...]