SECOND OPINION: A surgeon’s view of healthcare and policy in India
Aruna Shanbaug, euthanasia and whose life is it anyway?
Aruna Shanbaug's death has again opened up the euthanasia conversation in the public domain. For a health care discourse often dominated by inane news, this is not such a bad thing,' says Dr Sanjay Nagral.
The Effect of Prophylactic Transpapillary Pancreatic Stent Insertion on Clinically Significant Leak Rate Following Distal Pancreatectomy
The effect of prophylactic transpapillary pancreatic stent insertion on clinically significant leak rate following distal pancreatectomy: results of a prospective controlled clinical trial
Single-incision Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy Is Associated With a Higher Bile Duct Injury Rate
Single-incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy is associated with a higher bile duct injury rate
Updated Recommendations for Control of Surgical Site Infections
Updated recommendations for control of surgical site infections
Retroperitoneal Perforation of the Appendix Presenting as a Right Thigh Abscess
In this rare case of a retroperitoneal rupture of the appendix, the absence of abdominal symptoms at presentation leads to delay in diagnosis.
We need to discuss India’s reliance on private medical colleges
Indian citizens need reminding that growing commercialisation in healthcare and medical education is linked to the corruption they experience in their healthcare encounters,
MLK
Reminiscences of standing upon the shoulders of a giant in medicine - the indomitable and larger-than-life Head of the Dept. of Anatomy, Dr. ML Kothari, and his influence on my life.
The Chhattisgarh tragedy and Indian surgeons' love for speed
This cult of speed reaches its crowning glory during that peculiar Indian spectacle called medical camps. Medical camps are an activity in which doctors from cities travel to underserved areas, often on weekends, where the poor are then herded in hundreds for deliverance, photo-ops and freebies.