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it is laudable that medical council of india has now recognised foreign qualifications like m.r.c p.; f.r.c.s. etc, which, hitherto, had the dubious distinction of not being valued in india. A postgraduate doctor with degrees like m.r.c.p.england is now eligible to seek an appointment as a teaching faculty in any indian medical college. similarly i […]

Elon Musk launches Neuralink, by Nick Statt@nickstatt Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is backing a brain-computer interface venture called Neuralink, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company, which is still in the earliest stages of existence and has no public presence whatsoever, is centered on creating devices […]

Masud Husain and Mitul A. Mehta Attempts to improve cognitive function in patients with brain disorders have become the focus of intensive research efforts. A recent emerging trend is the use of so-called cognitive enhancers by healthy individuals. Here, we consider some of the effects – positive and negative – that current drugs have in […]

Georgina Dent I don’t want to write about being married to a doctor but complicity in the silence around the pressures of practising medicine isn’t a victory for anyone A doctor in a hospital View more sharing options Contact author @georgiedent Tuesday 16 May 2017 00.03 EDT Last modified on Wednesday 17 May 2017 00.25 […]

(a) Medical certificates are legal documents. Medical practitioners who deliberately issue a false, misleading or inaccuratecertificate could face disciplinary action under the Indian Medical Council (Professional Conduct, Etiquette and Ethics), Regulations, 2002.  b)   The certificate should be legible, written on the doctor’s letterhead and should not contain abbreviations or medicaljargon.  The certificate should be based on facts known to the doctor. […]

HRS late-breaking study results show innovative medication has potential to change the way patients are treated for this rapid heart rate arrhythmia May 16, 2017 – Results of a groundbreaking clinical trial demonstrate the effectiveness of a novel, fast-acting nasal spray therapy called Etripamil to stop a common rapid heart rate condition known as paroxysmal […]

    KENNETH S. YEW, MD, MPH, Family Medicine of Albemarle, Charlottesville, Virginia ERIC M. CHENG, MD, MS, University of California–Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Am Fam Physician. 2015 Apr 15;91(8):528-536.   Patient information: See related handout on stroke, written by the authors of this article. Author disclosure: No relevant financial affiliations. Classifying Stroke Risk […]

(John Raoux/AP)closemore It happens every day, in exam rooms across the country, something that would have been unthinkable 20 years ago: Doctors and nurses turn away from their patients and focus their attention elsewhere — on their computer screens. By the time the doctor can finally turn back to her patient, she will have spent […]

Medicine is Science but Treatment is an art. Medical treatment does not have a rule book- what is recorded as treatment is used as reference to proceed: Treatment differs from doctor to doctor Therapy should be customised -only corporate treatments are protocol based Institution protocols differs and varies from institution to institution Various schools and […]

Dr. Pattan Jaffar Ali Khan MD; DPH; DPH&H; DCBD; MSc(Nutrn); FAIMS; PhD; MBA; MHRM. Why Do Patients Prefer Quacks For Their Healthcare Needs  Nov 8 2015      Share on WhatsApp Share on Email Flag inappropriate       +1250 views Most of the modern doctors suffer from Hemianopia, the one-sided vision, as they bother […]

Editorial (Dr K K Aggarwal) (Dr RN Tandon) 13th May, 2017 We all prescribe generic drugs only, where is the confusion then? (Part 1)   The final IMA Stand on generic drugs Write Legible Write Generic (Generic- Generic or Trade Generic or Branded Generic) Write Chemical name of the drug in CAPITAL (up to two […]

Dharmaraj Karthikesan’s BlogMy life as a doctor and the way I see it… I met a young doctor who used to work with me recently. I had just completed my night rounds in the hospital and I was leaving for home. And then I saw him. He was unkempt, exhausted and appeared famished. Worst of […]

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Mad Pride parade in Salvador, Brazil, in 2009. Mad Pride is a mass movement of the users of mental health services, former users, and their allies. It was formed in 1993 in response to local community prejudices towards people with a psychiatric history living in boarding homes in the Parkdale area of Toronto, Canada, and […]

The psychiatric survivors movement (more broadly peer/consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement[1]) is a diverse association of individuals who either currently access mental health services (known as consumers or service users), or who are survivors of interventions by psychiatry, or who are ex-patients of mental health services.[2] The psychiatric survivors movement arose out of the civil rights movement of […]

Outline of the psychiatric survivors movementThe following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the psychiatric survivors movement: Psychiatric survivors movement – diverse association of individuals who are either currently clients of mental health services, or who consider themselves survivors of interventions by psychiatry, or who identify themselves as ex-patients of […]

For involuntary treatment in non-hospital settings, see involuntary treatment. Involuntary commitment or civil commitment (also known as sectioning in some jurisdictions) is a legal process through which an individual who is deemed by a qualified agent to have symptoms of severe mental disorder is court-ordered into treatment in a psychiatric hospital (inpatient) or in the […]

The Icarus Project is a media and activist endeavor broadly aligned to anti-psychiatry, arguing that mental illness should actually be regarded as “dangerous gifts”. The name is derived from Icarus, a hero in Greek mythology, and is metaphorically used to convey that these experiences can lead to “potential[ly] flying dangerously close to the sun.” [1] […]

The Netflix series, 13 Reasons Why, has caused a furor. In the show, a high school student who has died by suicide has left 13 tapes, one for each person she believes have contributed in some way to her eventual decision. Each episode relates to an individual tape. The penultimate episode depicts the suicide in […]

Practice of modern scientific medicine is being made more and more difficult by increase in arbitrary laws and interference of judiciary in purely medical professional decisions. This has simultaneously been quixotically supplemented by allowing all kinds of quacks the right to practice modern medicine. The standards and the rules imposed on the qualified practitioners of […]

MINUTES of GBM of MCI held on 29th March’2017 at the Office of Medical Council of India, Sector 8 Dwarka, New Delhi Regarding Violence against the Doctors • Members supported the concern for assault on Resident doctors and the following Resolutions were proposed 27A Privileges of persons who are enrolled on Indian Medical Register/State Medical […]

Renowned medical journal Lancet discusses rising violence in country’s health sector 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 In a piece published in one of the oldest medical journals in the world in April, it was said that the health workers in India have reached a breaking point in the wake of continuous physical attacks on them. 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 Violence in the […]

Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities   states parties   states that have signed, but not ratified   states that have not signed Drafted 13 December 2006 Signed 30 March 2007 Location New York Effective 3 May 2008 Condition 20 ratifications Signatories 160 Parties 173 Depositary Secretary-General of the United Nations Languages Arabic, […]

A new narrative around mental health  Soumitra Pathare 02 APRIL 2017 00:02 IST UPDATED: 01 APRIL 2017 22:36 IST     The Mental Healthcare Bill — approved in the Lok Sabha last week following Rajya Sabha approval in August 2016 — marks a paradigm shift in the care and treatment of persons with mental illness […]

By Dr. Paresh Koli on February 26, 2014 345 Comments / 99094 views Medical Council of India Logo   Medical Council of India Logo   Every year at the time of Medical admissions into MBBS or PG Degree/ Diploma courses students get confused as they do not know difference between a Medical Council of India […]

Citrullinemia is an autosomal recessive urea cycle disorder that causes ammonia and other toxic substances to accumulate in the blood.[1] Since the substances also accumulate in the urine, the disorder can also be called citrullinuria. Two forms of citrullinemia have been described, both having different signs and symptoms, and are caused by mutations in different […]

“We cannot stop doctors from studying or working abroad – we can provide them with lucrative offers”, these are the words of an official serving on the parliamentary committee. Obviously, doctors are too less in numbers in India. Total number of MBBS seats—53,330 (30,000 NEET) Colleges 426 Total 17,000 PG-NEET seats are available across 350 […]

Health Impact NewsGo to… Print This Post Print This Post 23K     113     17 Share   3 Share   6     101       Patient bribing doctor putting money to pocket Our First Dive Into the New Open Payments System The government’s data on payments to doctors and hospitals by […]

One of the commonest reasons of divorce is having a mental or a neurological disorder in either of the couple, especially in wife. Tolerating psychiatric disorder in husbands by their wives is often seen than vice versa, due to various cultural, psychological, social, financial and family reasons. Parents of sons and daughters having serious psychiatric […]

एक बार एक टी.वी. शो में कुछ आधे-अधूरे तथ्यों एवं बिना विषय से सम्बंधित उपयुक्त एवं un biased विशेषज्ञों को साथ लिए, सभी भारतीय चिकित्सकों की लगभग खिल्ली उड़ाते हुए, उनके द्वारा मरीजों को लिखे जाने वाली अच्छी कम्पनी की ब्रांडेड दवाओं के बारे में कुछ भ्रान्ति प्रचारित एवं प्रसारित की गयी. यही नहीं बाज़ार […]

Let me clear the myth being spread by media and the politicians about generic and non generic drugs.1. Drugs are developed by pharma companies in labs and after lots of clinical testings for their safety and efficacy they enter into market as branded drugs in patented form by which means no other company can market […]

Some of the problematic areas of the legislation are  a) definition of certain terms like *mental health establishment* b) Capacity to consent for treatment (most problematic one)  c) Advance Directives  d) Nominated Representative  e) All issues /problems / litigation will be heard in *mental health board* which is a civil court (quasi judicial body). Now […]

Generic-Generic or Generic-only drug (without brand name) and usually is supplied in institutional supplies. “Generic name of the drug” is not same as generic drug and means the chemical name of the drug only. Generic-Generic is made and marketed by local companies in the unorganized sector as the preparation with questionable quality.Trade Generic (Generic marketed […]

Addiction doc says: Stop chasing the drug! Focus on ACEs and people will heal. Posted by Jane Ellen Stevens dr-daniel-sumrok-2-1-1024×657.jpeg He says: Addiction shouldn’t be called “addiction”. It should be called “ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking”. He says: Ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking (what traditionalists call addiction) is a normal response to the adversity experienced in childhood, just like […]

Dr K. K Aggarwal, President of the Indian Medical Association ( IMA), spoke to Healthpost about a host of issues : the deteriorating doctor-patient relationship, generic drugs, Clinical Establishment Act of West Bengal, etc. Excerpts:  How do you think has doctor- patient relationship changed?   The smart phone era has brought about a paradigm shift […]