SECOND OPINION: A surgeon’s view of healthcare and policy in India
Testing, testing, testing
The evidence suggests that all-encompassing blanket testing when you are healthy doesn’t help. Many countries don’t promote or offer them. No scientific organisation recommends them. What’s instead recommended is selective targeted testing
The right and wrong of Right to Health
How do we define an emergency? Why does the government not do its job? Why should private hospitals treat emergencies? Who will pay? Who will take responsibility to transfer patients? What if people demand emergency treatment
Wishful thinking on the new year
Does reflection on the year gone by contribute to a better life in the year that follows? Do we collectively learn to improve our daily lives? The rhetoric apart, such questions are too ambitious without the context of period, place and culture.
Will the measles virus cross class boundaries?
Measles is much more infective to others than Covid. But its resurgence has been seen across the world in those whose lives and livelihoods were uprooted by Covid. Who may have got the Covid vaccine but missed the measles vaccine in the chaos
Pharma companies influence Doctors to prescribe certain drugs
In this video, he speaks about the pharma companies influencing the doctors to prescribe certain drugs and how gifts from these companies influence the decision making of doctors in terms of what medicines to prescribe.
Ethics of Indian Healthcare
Dr. Sanjay Nagral is an expert gastrointestinal surgeon with a career spanning three decades, considered among the top 10 gastroenterologists in India. He performed a vital role in the first successful liver transplant in India.
When Byculla was Gambia
The death of 70 children due to adulterated cough syrup made by an Indian pharma company has hit headlines. The fact that these were children who must have been given a syrup for what’s likely to have been a harmless cough has made this case particularly heart-breaking.
Ethics are not enough, medical sector also needs regulation Ft. Dr. Sanjay
Joining host Sidharth Bhatia on The Wire Talks this week is Dr. Sanjay Nagral. The duo speaks about whether pharma incentives to doctors harm or help the patients, massive promotional budgets' effect on the medical segment and the common man, and more.