Daily Archives: 30/08/2018

The truth about medical negligence

Sorry about that! A vast majority of people believes that doctors are a negligent lot. This often implies that doctors are not courteous enough, are brusque to the point of being rude, are not available when needed, and prescribe unnecessary laboratory tests, scans and medicines. At a function organised by the Indian Medical Association on […]

‘The Truth About the Drug Companies’

By MARCIA ANGELLOCT. 31, 2004 The $200 Billion Colossus What does the eight-hundred-pound gorilla do? Anything it wants to. What’s true of the eight-hundred-pound gorilla is true of the colossus that is the pharmaceutical industry. It is used to doing pretty much what it wants to do. The watershed year was 1980. Before then, it […]