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Medicine in India
Pandya, Sunil K.
Pandya, Sunil K.
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Dr Atul Gawande has rightly earned a formidable reputation at an early age with his first opus (1), written while he was still a resident doctor in an American hospital. He now commands our attention by a forthright and comprehensive review of current medical practices in India as witnessed by him. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the essay is assured wide readership. Alas! this Journal is not read by our ministers of health in New Delhi and various states or by the bureaucrats who man the ministries of health and education. Dr Gawande's observations in and around Nanded are also true for most other parts of Maharshtra and indeed, India. Worse conditions that those noted by him can be witnessed in states such as Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Newspapers in metropolitan Kolkata are full of tragic tales of medical misadventure and of the visits to clinics and hospitals by stray cats, dogs and even larger quadrupeds without let or hindrance.
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