Author: <span>Anil C. Anand</span>

Published 12 September 2020 by

Privileged in Pandemic 

"Authors do not choose a story to write, The story chooses us."
                                                                             Richard P. Denny, Author1

Once in a while, I get a phone call from my old students, asking about my welfare in this pandemic. News reports in the media on escalation of SARS-COV-2 infection among healthcare workers could be a reason.2,3 The concern expressed by them gives me a warm feeling. It also allows me a peek into the mind of this generation.  read more

References

↑1 https://www.idlehearts.com/1648311/authors-do-not-choose-a-story-to-write-the-story-chooses-us
↑2 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-nurses/over-90000-health-workers-infected-with-covid-19-worldwide-nurses-group-idUSKBN22I1XH
↑3 And Nguyen LH, Drew DA, Joshi AD, et al. Risk of COVID-19 among frontline healthcare workers and the general community: a prospective cohort study. Preprint. medRxiv. 2020;2020.04.29.20084111. Published 2020 May 25. doi:10.1101/2020.04.29.20084111)

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Published 30 August 2020 by

Should I be Ethical or Moral?

Often a physician is placed in a situation where his ethics is in conflict with his morality. How does he or she deal with this situation?

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Published 15 August 2020 by

Que Sera Sera

Half of what a doctor knows today will be proven wrong, within a decade. Doctors rely on incomplete knowledge to make many medical decisions. When it comes to predictions about disease, patients should not expect too much of our doctors!’

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Published 29 July 2020 by

Live Fast Live Long

Current COVID-19 pandemic has pushed into relative obscurity, another pandemic that has been raging for over one decade. By confining people to their homes, COVID-19 may make that pandemic of obesity worse. So any simple treatment that promises a dramatic benefit, evokes great excitement. A Recent paper published in a popular journal dealt with one such simple measure-intermittent fasting. It also brought back some forgotten memories from my childhood.

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Published 13 July 2020 by

Wishing Away the Demons

During the last few months, COVID-19 pandemic has turned the world upside down. There is one question that bedevils every mind, ‘when will this pandemic end?’ or ‘when will we go back to normal life?’ Can we answer these questions with any degree of certainty with existing knowledge?

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Published 29 June 2020 by

Riding an Unbridled Horse to War

In the absence of any ethical guidelines, corporate hospitals are like unbridled horses. How to utilise them for public good during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Published 13 June 2020 by

Watchdog With A Bone

Some time back (November 2019), our institute had organized an international workshop on ‘Clinical Research Ethics.’ It was an agenda setting workshop for our institution and had representations from several other institutes such as the Department of Bioethics, National Institute of Health (NIH), USA, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Niti Ayog and Drug Controller (India), CDSCO. We were informed that ICMR is the watchdog of bio-ethical practices in clinical research in India and had formulated guidelines as good as anywhere else in the world. ICMR had placed mechanisms to guide institutional ethical committees in matters of research if required.  There were also discussions about special situations such as research on vulnerable populations such as children, tribal and the underprivileged. read more

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