Bangalore witness a spike in acts of vandalism against hospitals and doctors
The DGP said that he would hold the jurisdictional police, DCPs and SPs responsible for any attacks on representatives or establishments and warned action against them.
The DGP said that he would hold the jurisdictional police, DCPs and SPs responsible for any attacks on representatives or establishments and warned action against them.
Four senior doctors-three neurosurgeons and the head of the intensive care unit (ICU)-have been booked for 'outsourcing' their duties to others for a price, allegedly even to people outside the medical profession, putting lives of patients at grave risk.
This is less than one female allopathic doctor per 10,000 population in rural areas (0.5), whereas the ratio is 6.5 in urban areas.
Two hundred years after it was invented to hear the heart’s murmurs, the ubiquitous stethoscope — symbol of the medical profession — is once again at the centre of a raging debate on its utility. A US-based Indian cardiologist recently said the diagnostic tool is dead!
At the back of their mind, every doctor knows that it’s unethical to accept these kickbacks. They learn to compromise by putting their conscience on the backburner and rationalize what they are doing. However, many doctors are not comfortable with taking kickbacks. Not everyone’s conscience is dead and most doctors prefer to earn their living honestly and ethically!