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Don’t Jump On Private Healthcare
People from Koodam asked for opinion on the PIL in Supreme Court regarding fees in private hospitals (and clinical establishments act). They shared a folder collating views of various individuals, including this excellent working paper which I refer to in the text below as Oxfam publication. *** Hi Gayatri, I went through the whole folder.…
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What is mfc?
A year ago, I asked in mfc‘s own e-group this question. You can read that long email and another long email after a week with more ideas of what mfc is here. It ends with an appreciation of what the website presently says about mfc: It is an organization which has operated for forty eight…
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Why Medical College Work Culture is So Horrible
A number of junior residents at Jipmer have raised allegations of mental and physical harassment against the head of department, medicine, and called for action against the senior faculty.In recent complaints lodged with the Jipmer Dean (Academics), the residents alleged they were subjected to various forms of harassment at the hands of the department head…
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What’s the Most Important Scientific Research?
Post-facto rationalization. That’s something human beings are good at. If you decide to do research in a specific field, you’ll come up with hundred ways to justify why that research is important, if not the most important. I have been listening to Ravikant Kisana the last couple of days. In the podcast episode about Chandrayaan,…
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What Ails India’s approach to Universal Health Coverage is Elite Solutions That Have No Basis in Reality
“Poorly maintained registers of doctors”. That’s the first five words of the article What ails India’s approach to Universal Health Coverage in Times of India by four people from Vidhi Centre for Lobbying Legal Policy. Let’s talk about that after we look at universal health coverage. “Universal health coverage (UHC) means that all people have…
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Repeated Names in NSQ Manufacturing
There’s a 2014-2016 survey of drugs. That’s followed up with smaller surveys by CDSCO. We will compare with March 2023 report. Let’s look for repeated offenders. Skymap Pharmaceuticals Uttarakhand. In the old survey they had 14.04% samples NSQ. In March 2023, they’re NSQ again in 2 samples. (We do not know how many samples from…
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Engaging with the System – A Visit to IISc
When Prasanna heard John and I were leaving Hari’s farewell party to join Ravi in the trip to Indian Institute of Science, PS let out a characteristic sigh and said “all the best”. It probably comes from experience of how incorrigible people in elite institutions are when it comes to thinking about broader determinants of…
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A Community for Online Action in Community Health
Today Guru, John, Swamy, Ravi, and I met in the Health for All – Learning Center workspace at SOCHARA. We discussed an action plan for the next 3 years (with a focus on 2023-24) for the Digital Archives Platform unit at SOCHARA. The archives becomes a core activity for a community of community health activist-scholars…
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Personal Is Political in Professional Practice
“Should a doctor treat an alcoholic who is injured due to drunk driving? Would your opinion change if it were just a solo accident v/s injuring/killing other people on the road?” asked @arshiet. The regular controversy. Should doctors judge their patients? Is it ethical to even ask the question of whether it is ethical for…
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History is to Practice
I’ve been in many debates where “science” is accused of being wrong. As if science is a set of things written down in a book or a set of ideas that are arrived at by a group of people. Something that has to be consumed by others. I’m baffled by this argument because, to me,…