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TopicIndian doctors

Topic: Indian doctors

Dermatologist & ThePrint columnist Dr Deepali Bhardwaj honoured by IMA for exemplary community service

Annual Doctors’ Day award ceremony was held in Delhi Sunday. Dr Bhardwaj is associated with Deepanjan Charitable Trust, providing free care to BPL families, with focus on women’s health.

India’s top students wanted to be doctors. Not anymore

This noble profession has lost its sheen and appeal as a career path of choice for India’s brightest students. We need to analyse and understand the reasons for this decline

Doctors without safety. Chennai knife attack on oncologist renews call for central law

According to an IMA report, doctors attacked report facing insomnia, depression, anxiety, and an inability to see their patients without any fear of violence.

Chennai oncologist stabbed 7 times by patient’s mother, govt doctors announce strike

Patient's son, who attacked doctor allegedly due to grievances over treatment administered to his mother at Kalaignar Centenary Super Speciality Hospital, is being questioned by police.

Govt junked draft law on health workers’ protection in 2019. After Kolkata rape-murder, it’s back on table

A high-level committee, which will have representatives from various ministries and doctors’ associations, will propose law providing legal safeguards in healthcare settings, it is learnt

India planned reboot for the good old family doctor 40 years ago. Why they remain a shrinking tribe

Doctors equipped to tend to all family members for a range of symptoms were ubiquitous in India at one point. Family-medicine doctors say years of neglect have done the stream in.

Primary health centres see over 50% increase in doctors but shortfall of 80% specialists at CHCs

The latest edition of the Rural Health Statistics also shows a critical shortage of surgeons, gynaecologists & paediatricians persisting in the community health centres

India needs to innovate in filling vacant hospital posts. Building new AIIMS alone won’t cut it

Right-minded reforms in healthcare are in place, but India should not end up in a situation where the surgery is successful but the patient is dead.

Distrust of Indian doctors isn’t new. Class-caste bias always ruled medical profession

As a practising doctor, I discovered large question marks on claims of a trustful patient-doctor relationship in the past. The routine dehumanisation of underprivileged patients remains a rarely mentioned topic.

India’s medical education needs more push from Modi govt. Affordable colleges still a dream

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.