Ethics Archive
Top IMA Officers Suspended
1 Comment Published by Vijay November 20th, 2010 in Ethics, Healthcare, Life in India, Medicine, News, Politics, Social Commentary…
via DNA - Centre cracks the whip on Indian Medical Association for endorsing products.
Sending a strong signal to doctors endorsing products for private companies, Medical Council of India (MCI) has banned top office-bearers of Indian Medical Association (IMA) from practising medicine for six months. IMA’s national president Goparaju Samaram and secretary Dharam Prakash have been removed from [...]
Diluting Medical Care
1 Comment Published by George Paul September 27th, 2010 in Ethics, Healthcare, Life in India, Medical Education, Politics…
Note: This a guest post by my colleague and neighbour, Dr. George Paul. He is a maxillofacial surgeon and lawyer. He writes and speaks on various legal and ethical issues in medical care. He is also an occasional blogger. This article is also cross-posted in his blog.
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In July 2010 the Madras High Court, in a [...]
Credibility of MCI Will Be Restored
2 Comments Published by Vijay May 5th, 2010 in Ethics, Life in India, Medical Education, Medicine, News, Politics…
The Times of India - Credibility of MCI will be restored, says Azad:
As MCI continues to reel under a severe crisis of credibility, health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said it was the government’s immediate objective to ensure that the body responsible for regulating medical education in the country worked in a fair [...]
The Worm At The Rotten Core
2 Comments Published by Vijay April 24th, 2010 in Ethics, Healthcare, Life in India, Medical Education, Medicine, News, Social Commentary…
[Image - Screen grab from The Hindu's online article]
Note: The post title relates to this older post
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Update (24.04.2010, 2:45 PM):
This news article from The Economic Times gives more details about the sordid story…
NEW DELHI: In an important step towards cleaning up the corruption in the medical education sector, the Central Bureau of Investigation arrested Medical [...]
Medical Council of India: The Rot Within
9 Comments Published by Vijay September 10th, 2009 in Ethics, Healthcare, Life in India, Medical Education, Medical Journals, Medical blogs, Medicine, News, Politics…
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 [...]
This Is Cheating. Plain & Simple.
2 Comments Published by Vijay July 19th, 2009 in Ethics, Medical blogs, Medicine, Radiology…
via The Trial of a WhiteCoat – Part 14.
The radiologist that read the film had a habit of going to the surgeons the following day and asking them what they had found. He would open up a blank report so that it looked as if it was dictated at the time of the exam, but [...]
In response to Dr.Val on the Abortion “issue”
3 Comments Published by Vijay June 9th, 2009 in Ethics, Friends, Medical blogs, Medicine, Nebulous Views…
Abortion and the intense debate about it in an otherwise enlightened (?) country was the topic of two of my earliest posts in this blog (this post and this one). I posted again when it looked like the debate was going to start in India. Thankfully, it died a natural death.
Those of you who follow [...]
The Abortion Debate Begins in India.
9 Comments Published by Vijay August 8th, 2008 in Ethics, Life in India, Medicine, News, Other Bloggers, Social CommentaryAbortion is “something that has fascinated me since my days in medical college.” That is a direct quote from one of my first serious posts after I started this blog. In that post I had declared; “To us in India, abortion is almost a non-issue.”
In a related post a few days later, I answered some [...]













