Monthly Archives: August 2016

NMC

Lot of controversies have been heard of about scrapping of MCI and introduction of NMC. Introduction of NMC is just not about the change of name but the whole system. There are many wrong self created misconceptions that has been deliberately circulated through social media to form public opinion based not upon facts but upon […]

udta freud

The intoxicant was the unwitting catalyst for many surgical breakthroughs“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red. And if you’re forward you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn’t eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.” Thus wrote […]

Irritability 

Annoyance is an unpleasant feeling, but, like all feelings, it serves useful purposes. (“Annoy” and “irritate” have slightly different shades of meaning, but I’m going to use them interchangeably here.) To annoy means “to rouse to impatience or anger.” Think of it as a highway rumble strip on the edge of full-blown anger. It could […]

18 Behaviors of Emotionally Intelligent People

WELLNESS By Travis Bradberry / Inc. Feb. 12, 2016 Emotional intelligence is a huge driver of success    When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time. This anomaly threw […]

Medical education 

Why can’t the government do a revolutionary step in medical education by allowing all graduate MBBS DOCTORS to train a MBBS STUDENT (one student for one MBBS) AND all postgraduate MD doctors to train one MD student for a stipulated period rather like CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS do. The can there after appear in a central examination […]

antipsychotic in pregnancy 

“Of course, you only give the drug because it is being used to treat a disease, but when the disease and the drug affect the same outcome potential, it is very hard to separate the two, but this is what they do very well in a very large sample of American women,” she added. The […]

freedom for doctors 

India celebrates its Independence Day every year on 15th August, commemorating its freedom from British rule in 1947. It is the day that all Indians pay homage to our freedom fighters and leaders for their immense contribution that led to freedom of our country. In this democratic country, everyone from a homeless person to the […]

CLINICAL ESTABLISHMENT ACT,IMA & MINIMAL STANDARDS 

clinical establishment act- basics why the government wants it.  The government wants insurance in health sector.The insurance sector is hesitant to enter in an unregulated heath sector . Hence the act Why the government is making a mistake.  Insurance was introduced in American health care because American health care is inaccessible and very expensive. Indian […]

Major deficiencies in the Mental Health Care Bill (MHCB) 2016

To, The PM,     We, the psychiatrists of this country represented by the Indian Psychiatric Society (IPS)(the largest Professional Association of Indian psychiatrists) request your intervention in the above mentioned Bill passed by Rajya Sabha on 8 th August 2016, that seeks to improve the mental health care of the mentally ill in the […]

Various perpectives on clinical establishment act

Clinical Establishment Act . . . The vedas have long ago stated the fact that in kaliyug the do gooders would be hounded out and the the corrupt would flourish.The clinical establishment act seem to fulfill this profesy not in part but in full measures There are stringent and huge monitory penalties for non registration […]

American tribalism 

In America, tribalism is alive and well. There arefour kinds – class, ideology, region, and race. First, class. Pretty easy. Rich folk and poor folk. Second, ideology. Liberals and conservatives. They don’t merely disagree on political issues, each side believes the other is evil. Intermarriage is discouraged and on the rare occasion that it happens, […]

My perspectives on clinical establishment act 2010

Clinical Establishment Act . . . The vedas have long ago stated the fact that in kaliyug the do gooders would be hounded out and the the corrupt would flourish.The clinical establishment act seem to fulfill this profesy not in part but in full measures There are stringent and huge monitory penalties for non registration […]

cea and dentist

TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014The Clinical Establishment Act- How will it affect the practising dentist The Clinical Establishment Act 2010 became effective in Feb 2012 through an extraordinary gazette notification and is today applicable in 4 states with at least three more poised to adopt the same. There is no doubt that this is a landmark […]

Clinical Establishments- Role of government and Healthcare Market

The Kerala Clinical Establishments (Registration, Accreditation and Regulation) Bill, 2009 which was in the news recently has invited the fury of Medical practitioners, clinical institutions, labs, pharmacies, scanning centres and agencies, as it intended to curtail their freedom. The healthcare sector in Kerala which is one of the most lucrative sectors has been contributing to […]

A bitter pill?

Leave a reply India can boast of a flourishing and diverse medical industry. The ailing have a variety of options and treatments to choose from, including the best modern hospitals and the traditional homeopathy and Ayurveda cures. With a market of more than a billion people readily available, clinical establishments of all sorts have mushroomed […]

The Clinical Establishments Bill, 2007: Boon or Bane?

Saturday, December 22, 2007 The Clinical Establishments (Registration and Regulation Bill), 2007 is one of the important bills pending before the house that has somehow escaped the scrutiny of its more controversial counterpart-in-passage, the Broadcasting Bill. It may however have equally prominent implications for healthcare across the country. It has been introduced in parliament and […]

THE MAHARASHTRA CLINICAL ESTABLISHMENTS (REGISTRATION AND REGULATION) BILL 2014

Posted on March 6, 2014 by multiknack Long awaited Clinical Establishment Act, “THE MAHARASHTRA CLINICAL ESTABLISHMENTS (REGISTRATION AND REGULATION) BILL 2014 DRAFT” is tabled in the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly. Let the medical professionals say anything, this act is here to stay and sooner or later, all medical professionals and establishments will have to adhere to […]

CEA

This is a post which I should have posted much before. I’m not sure about how many know about the Clinical Establishment Act 2010 which is being slowly implemented in the country. Couple of states like Assam and Orissa have already implemented it. There are many a hospital in both these states that have been […]

doctors agaist clinical establishment act

Once again, the newly enacted Clinical Establishment(Registration and Regulation) Act (CEA) has attracted the displeasure of the doctors. For the doctors affiliated to the Indian Medical Association(IMA) have unequivocally expressed their opposition to the provisions of the act. Their claim: it will just land healthcare in corporate hands and adversely affect smaller healthcare units. They […]