Reflections

The relationship between doctors and their patients has undergone a sea change in India . Gone are the days of paternalism, when doctors ordered and the patients listened. But in today's consumer driven market place, this no longer holds good. However such concerns are not just Indian. Similar concerns consume American doctors as well. I am reproducing an opinion by an American anesthesiologist  Shirie Leng  , . Originally from the KevinMD, this post examines one reason for the gulf that has appeared in the trust between doctors and patients. " The subject matter has hit a nerve.  The first post was about how we use and misuse numbers in medicine, and the second made the case that patients are not customers in the retail sense. The opinions in both cases were pretty much split between people who agreed with me wholeheartedly and those who thought me the most misguided idiot doctor ever to approach a keyboard. Why these subjects?  Why are issues of buyi...

HH Maharaja Shri Sir BHAGWATSINHJI SAGRAMSINHJI Sahib Gondal today is a municipal town in the district of Rajkot in the Indian State of Gujarat. Today it is a relatively small dusty town on the banks of the Godali River, but it was once the capital of the princely state of Gondal. In the mosaic of semi independent states that made up the Kathiawar peninsula, Gondal was one of the first class states. This meant that the ruler was entitled to a 11 gun salute and in those feudal, status conscious times, this meant that the ruler of this state was curt above the rest, though not, of course, of the exalted heights that many others like Hyderabad, or Gwalior could boast. This state was founded by the Jadeja Rajputs in 1634 by Thakore Shri Kambhoji, who probably came to this region from the Sind province. Subsequently several rulers came to the throne some of whom added to the state’s area by conquest and other means. In 1947, the state consisted of about 175 villages and the Thakor was now ...