Hippocratic Oath or Hypocrisy?
Doctors at Crossroads
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Product details:
- Edition number First Edition
- Publisher SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd
- Date of Publication 1 January 2018
- ISBN 9789352807802
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 215x139 mm
- Language English 0
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Short description:
An honest portrayal of the medical industry today by a doctor who is a part of the system herself.
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Long description:
Medicine was until recently a greatly respected profession supported by trust and faith on one side and compassion and care on the other. However, over the years, the relationship between doctors and patients has suffered. Doctors now find themselves in the news for all the wrong reasons. Labelled as ‘murderers’, ‘knife happy’, ‘organ stealing thieves’ or touts of pharmaceutical giants, they have now lost respect in the eyes of society.
When and how did this happen?
When did doctors go from being ‘Next to God’ to maut ke saudagar, as the media is so fond of labelling them?
Hippocratic Oath or Hypocrisy?: Doctors at Crossroads is the author’s journey as a doctor over three decades, from a young medical student to an experienced paediatrician. She has used her experience to highlight serious issues—demanding patients, prescribing of unnecessary investigations, hospitals run like business houses, the role of big pharmaceutical industries and so on from the point of view of both doctors and patients.
The author’s anecdotal style, which includes quotes from her many case studies, will keep the reader turning the pages eagerly till the end.
‘Deteriorating doctor-patient relationship in India is an issue of serious concern and I have to commend Dr Anita Bakshi’s beautiful attempt at a reflective examination of a difficult topic.’
MoreTable of Contents:
Forward by Dr Harsh Vardhan
Preface
Acknowledgements
Where It Ended
Hippocratic Oath or Hypocrisy?
Through Rose-Tinted Glasses
Becoming a Doctor
A License to Kill or Cure
Private Practice: A Dangerous Potion
Ethics, Morality and Mind Games
Tarnished Image
Healing Hands
Medical Negligence: Close Brushes
The ‘Corporate’ Mafia in Medicine
Does the Pharmaceutical Industry Rule Us?
Defensive Medicine: A Value System Changes
Disillusioned
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