The Ethical Doctor - Softcover

Kamal Kumar Mahawar

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ISBN 10: 9352640098 ISBN 13: 9789352640096

Publisher: Harpercollins India, 2016

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The medical profession in India is plagued with various malpractices: poor health care, commissions from needless treatments and tests, exploitative drug companies, forced operations on the poor. In such a scenario, how does one protect oneself and one's family? Also, how does a doctor carry out his functions effectively and honestly? The answers are deeply entrenched in our political and judicial systems, in the policy-making of the medical fraternity. This book attempts to unearth the interconnectedness between power and knowledge as it plays itself out in medicine and asks the important question: is it possible to be an ethical doctor today?

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Dr Kamal Kumar Mahawar is a practising medical doctor who has had the opportunity of reflecting on a range of ethical and systematic issues that plague health care in India. He writes regularly on subjects pertaining to Indian health care in India Medical Times. Following his graduation from Calcutta Medical College and post-graduation from Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, and University of Liverpool, Dr Mahawar has been working as Consultant General and Bariatric Surgeon with National Health Service (City Hospitals Sunderland NHS Trust), United Kingdom. He is actively involved with research and is the editor of several reputed scientific journals. Dr Mahawar is also the co-founder of science portal WebmedCentral.

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