Monthly Archives: May 2022
Stroke
Stroke AHA/ASA GUIDELINE 2022 Guideline for the Management of Patients With Spontaneous Intracerebral Hemorrhage: A Guideline From the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association Reviewed for evidence-based integrity and endorsed by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons and Congress of Neurological Surgeons. Endorsed by the Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology The American Academy of Neurology […]
Do Indian medical degrees like MBBS, MD, and MS have value in other countries
Do Indian medical degrees like MBBS, MD, and MS have value in other countries? Are people who have them accepted as doctors? Which countries accept them?Indian MBBS degree is at par with any other Primary Medical qualification awarded by other countries in West or the Eastern world. The thing is, a primary medical qualification, only […]
Education and Training for Ethical Practice of Telemedicine for Registered Medical Practitioners in
SPECIAL ISSUE Education and Training for Ethical Practice of Telemedicine for Registered Medical Practitioners in India Sunil Shroff1*, Bagmisikha Puhan2, Lavanian Dorairaj3, Mayank Agarwal4, Manick Rajendran5, Ravi Modali6, Suchitra Mankar7, Permachanahalli Sachidananda Ramkumar8 and Sandeep Patil9 1President, TN-Telemedicine Society of India, Chennai, India; 2Associate Partner, TMT Law Practice, Legal Advisor – Telemedicine Society of India, […]
हर विवादित ढाँचे के नीचे मंदिर
हर विवादित ढाँचे के नीचे मंदिर… वो 1800 स्थल जहाँ हिन्दू मंदिरों को ध्वस्त कर बनाई गई मस्जिदें-मजार, हम लेकर आए हैं राज्यवार सूची18 May, 2022Anuragहिन्दू मंदिर ध्वस्त, मस्जिद, सूचीअहमदाबाद का सुल्तान अहमद शाह मस्जिद, पलक्कड़ में टीपू सुल्तान का किला, मांडू में दिलावर खान मस्जिद, अजमेर में ढाई दिन का झोंपड़ा (बाएँ से दाएँ)5927 […]
Kollywood and mental illness
Dr Mangala, Assistant Director at the Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF), could not believe what she was hearing when a patient expressed that they are reluctant to continue their medication to treat bipolar disorder after watching the 2019 Tamil film Nerkonda Paarvai, wherein Bharath Subramaniam (actor Ajith Kumar) who lives with bipolar disorder, mentions that he […]
TheLiverDoc
A young girl & her father enters OPD. 14y and is deeply jaundiced. Teary eyed, her father requests ONLY one thing“She’s advised liver transplant. We are poor. Can you please help us avoid it?” I look at the girl the father& brace myself for the worst case I’d ever seen…It was just 2 months back, […]
GMHP REVIEW Global Mental Health & Psychiatry Review, Vol. 3 No. 2, Spring/Summer 2022
GMHP REVIEW Global Mental Health & Psychiatry Review, Vol. 3 No. 2, Spring/Summer 2022 Editorial Board Eliot Sorel, MD Founding Editor-in-Chief ZONAL EDITORS AFRICA Prof. David M. Ndetei, MD, DSc, Kenya Prof Bonginkosi Chiliza, MPH, PhD, South Africa Victoria Mutiso, PhD, Kenya ASIA/PACIFIC Prof. Yueqin Huang, MD, MPH, PhD, China Prof. Roy Kallivayalil, MD, India […]
World schizophrenia Day
It was a regular sunny morning of Monday 2nd May 2022, Dr Anjali Deshapnde, Director , Insight Mind Care Center was heading for Insight MCC for morning rounds when she notices this young person who was apparently looking from a good family but in a disheveled appearance, eating food from the garbage of a close […]
physician
“There is no career nobler than that of the physician. The progress and welfare of society is more intimately bound with the prevailing tone and influence of the medical profession that with the status of any other class…” – Elizabeth Blackwell, MD, 1821-1910 Dear Medical Student and Doctor-in-training, Congratulations on starting your journey to become […]
National Medical Commission Registered Medical Practitioner (Professional Conduct) Regulations, 2022
NATIONAL MEDICAL COMMISSION NEW DELHI, DATED National Medical Commission Registered Medical Practitioner (Professional Conduct) Regulations, 2022 No. xxxx/xxx/NMC._____ In exercise of the powers conferred by section 27(1)b, read with sections 10(b)(f), 16(2), and 57(2)zh of the National Medical Commission Act, 2019 (No.30 of 2019), the National Medical Commission hereby makes the following Regulations relating to […]
Medicine and the Mind
Medicine and the MindCaleb GarAdner, M.D., and Arthur Kleinman, M.D.bout 100 years ago, the psychiatrist and phi-losopher Karl Jaspers observed that biologicand psychological investigations of the mind were like “the exploration of an unknown continentand most humane care to people with medically and psychologi- cally complicated conditions.Our mind arises from brain function, and both conscious […]
Reality of medical practice!
Chethana Raj passing away Similar incident can happen to any doctor practising surgery or medicine .Media has become such a threat to medical professionals-really scary !! We should demand a law not to publish any details until competent authority (KMC) gives them permission to do so . The present incidence show causes such a weak […]
The bond between medical students and their cadavers
A letter from a medical student at the end of her gross anatomy course. Dearest Walter, The time we’ve spent together over the past few months has been wonderful, but I’m afraid it must come to an end. We knew this day would come. I must move on with my life, and you must move […]
seroprevalence
An older study, showing 97% seroprevalence in Delhi. The twist: this was BEFORE Omicron Children, before vaccination, had nearly as much seroprevalence- indicating that most of them were already infected BEFORE Omicron hit India. The best part: 3rd wave didn’t harm kids. 1/8ImageWe have observed that in Kerala too, where Omicron caused massive levels of […]
: Drug-resistant epilepsy
Epilepsia, 46(6):858–877, 2005 Blackwell Publishing, Inc. ⃝C 2005 International League Against Epilepsy Summary: Drug-resistant epilepsy with uncontrolled severe seizures despite state-of-the-art medical treatment continues to be a major clinical problem for up to one in three patients with epilepsy. Although drug resistance may emerge or remit in the course of epilepsy or its treatment, in […]
OPIOID AGONISTS FOR TREATMENT OF OPIOID DEPENDENCE (OATOD)
OPIOID AGONISTS FOR TREATMENT OF OPIOID DEPENDENCE (OATOD): GUIDELINES FOR IMPLEMENTATION IN THE STATE OF PUNJAB A. Background B. RationaleandScopeofthisdocument C. Objectives D. Basic facts about opioid agonist treatment of opioid dependence (OATOD) E. Essentialpre-requisitesforstartingOATOD F. Guidelines on OATOD for opioid withdrawal (vis-à-vis clonidine) G. Guidelines on OATOD for opioid maintenance (Opioid Substitution Therapy, OST) […]
Drug-resistant epilepsy
Epilepsia, 46(6):858–877, 2005 Blackwell Publishing, Inc. ⃝C 2005 International League Against Epilepsy Summary: Drug-resistant epilepsy with uncontrolled severe seizures despite state-of-the-art medical treatment continues to be a major clinical problem for up to one in three patients with epilepsy. Although drug resistance may emerge or remit in the course of epilepsy or its treatment, in […]
Hormonal Aspects of Epilepsy
NIH Public Access Author Manuscript Neurol Clin. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 November 1. Published in final edited form as: Neurol Clin. 2009 November ; 27(4): 941. doi:10.1016/j.ncl.2009.08.005. Hormonal Aspects of Epilepsy Page B. Pennell, MD [Director of Research] Division of Epilepsy/EEG/Sleep, Department of Neurology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 75 Francis […]
उसनेकहाथा
उसनेकहाथा … वे मेरी शुरुआती प्रैक्टिस के दिन थे। मेरा क्लिनिक बहुत छोटा सा था, इतना छोटा कि बड़े लोग आने में हज़ार बार हिचकें।मगर उस दिन एक लम्बा गोरा और सुदर्शन पुरुष मेरे कमरे में आया। उसके गले में पड़ी सोने की मोटी ज़ंजीर और पर्फ़्यूम की अनोखी महक से उसकी हैसियत का पता […]
AN INCIDENT OF DISCRIMINATION AND SHAME AT THE RANCHI AIRPORT
N INCIDENT OF DISCRIMINATION AND SHAME AT THE RANCHI AIRPORT Via~ Manisha Gupta Yesterday, at the Ranchi airport, an adolescent with special needs, was in great distress. He had had a very uncomfortable car ride to the airport. By the time he had gone through security check and reached the gate (almost an hour ahead […]
Pristine, DocOn, Lybrate and Others with Healthcare.
Zomato. How the Indian restaurants were butchered, grilled and swallowed. SAME WILL HAPPEN TO DOCTORS THROUGH PRACTICE APPS They started off as a directory service for restaurants and listed them. Then they started reviewing them. They slowly ventured into table reservations and asked for a little commission. The restaurants loved it. Zomato was a friend. […]
Daughter from California syndrome
Daughter from California syndrome “Daughter from California” syndrome is a phrase used in the medical profession to describe a situation in which a long-lost relative arrives at the hospital at which a dying elderly relative is being treated, and insists that the medical team pursue aggressive measures to prolong the patient’s life, or otherwise challenges […]
Lessons learnt from Rajasthan suicide case
Lessons learnt from Rajasthan suicide case Dr Gaurav Aggarwal MBBS, MD (Forensic Medicine), DNB, LLB Medicolegal Consultant, Lawyer & Professor-Forensic Medicine Mob: 9811154655 A false case of Murder (u/s 302 IPC) / Culpable homicide (u/s 304 IPC) has been registered against a doctor by the Police. What are the remedies available to a doctor for […]
potentially modifiable risk factor for dementia
Impaired vision: A potentially modifiable risk factor for dementiaProf. V Nagarajan, Chairman & Head Neurosciences Research & Translational Task Force, ICMR, New Delhi; Chairman, IEC, Govt. Madurai Medical College; Director, VN Neuro Care Centre, Madurai, 04 May 2022Coronavirus Live Count Map India remove_red_eye 163 ViewsCOVID-19 Vaccine Updates Multispeciality 0Vision impairment is an important potentially modifiable […]
deemagclinic
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