SECOND OPINION: A surgeon’s view of healthcare and policy in India
Can Empathy be taught to Doctors
In his talk, Dr. Sanjay Nagral draws a neat line between bedside manners and clinical empathy, and stresses why the latter is the need of the hour for the healthcare community.
Beyond temporary relief
The challenge for Ayushman Bharat will be to spur systemic change in healthcare.
Ways of dying
A perspective on one of modern medicine's great conundrums: Is dying an event or a process? Does everyone die in the same way, or are there different ways of dying? Truly a subject of profound and perennial philosophical and religious enquiry.
Healers Or Predators?
This hard-hitting volume shows a mirror to society and, more specifically, to those associated with the health sector on how healers, in many cases, are shifting shape to becoming predators
Transplanting best practices
Public hospitals must be brought into the loop for deceased donor programmes
The Illness Within
Doctors, barring exceptions, are complicit in the commercialisation of healthcare.
Who gives, who lives? India’s organ transplant system continues to favour the rich
Over 95% of organ transplants are currently performed in the private sector where costs range from Rs.20 lakh to Rs.25 lakh
The Supreme Court of India on euthanasia: Too little, too late
In the absence of a systemic overhaul, the CC judgment on passive euthanasia stands to be either potentially misused or remain ineffective.