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Radiology in MSM


Presenting one of the rare occasions in which radiology features in the mainstream media…

[Image source: Afghanistan, April, 2010 - The Big Picture. The Boston Globe]

The caption to this image (photo number 3 in The Boston Globe’s The Big Picture article Afghanistan, April, 2010) reads…

A CAT Scan shows the placement of a 14.5 millimeter high explosive [...]

[Image - Screen grab from The Hindu's online article]
Note: The post title relates to this older post

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 [...]


Just to note the passing of four years of existence of this blog

I really ought to put more effort into keeping this lively following the example of friends who have recently seen the light and friends who have been leading lights in the medical blogging world


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 [...]


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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Radiology News


RSNA News: Early Radiology Exposure Could Lure Medical Students to Specialty: [via radRounds; Emphases are mine]

In a recent RSNA article, Dr. David Hovsepian MD and Dr. Terry Desser MD of Stanford’s Radiology Department … shed light onto what really leads medical students to choose a career in radiology. Often times, one wonders — how did [...]