SECOND OPINION: A surgeon’s view of healthcare and policy in India
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Objective health journalism is at a challenging cusp. It is needed much more than before and yet is under threat as never before. And as Justice Srikrishna observed at the RedInk awards, the media and the judiciary are our final bulwarks.
Do doctors help increase revenue for hospitals ?
In this video, Dr. Sanjay Nagral speaks about how doctors help increase revenue for hospitals?
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.
A kidney from New York
Though governments are increasingly funding (kidney) transplantation through special schemes, Kountz’s dream of transplantation for all those who need rather than those who afford is still a distant pipe dream for those at the bottom of social hierarchy.
The Sukoon Hospital
Many of us may not have the fortune of a sudden death while we are asleep. Nilaya is somewhat easy to translate in English. Home or abode. Many of us may be lucky to have one. It is Sukoon that is difficult. Both to translate and experience.
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.