Dr.Srinivasa Raju

Pay compensation Rs 10L for patient's death: Consumer forum to doctors, nursing home. Ace cancer surgeon&who is also 'padma bhushan " pays Rs 50,000 fine for negligence. Doctors has to work round the clock. Its very much saddening  to see that the doctors nowadays suffering with  insecurity,both emotional & economical . commercialization of medical education and health care are two culprits that spells the doom not only for the patients but also to the doctors. patients coming with utmost trust to doctors for good quality and economy service. Doctors  delivering quality service but couldn't afford to deliver it economically. patients felt anguished  with the bills and  disappointed with service when ever any untoward incident occurs. patients are then rooting for the pie in the form of  compensation  from the doctor at any cost by any means. So,doctors compelled to do defensive practice and order bat...

సోదర ప్రైవేట్ డాక్టర్స్ కి , నమస్తే మన ఐ.ఎం.ఎ ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ రాష్ట్ర శాఖ , ప్రైవేట్ డాక్టర్స్ కి మెరుగైన సేవలందించాలనే ఉదేశ్యంతో  స్టాండింగ్ కమిటీ  మరియు ఏక్షన్ కమిటీలు ఏర్పాటు చేసి ఎన్నొ విజయాలు సాధించిందని మీ అందరి కీ తెలుసు. మెడికల్ ప్రొటెక్షన్ చట్టమైనా , ప్రైవేట్ హాస్పిటల్ రిజిస్ట్రషన్ చట్ట సవరణలైనా -ఇవన్నీ ఐ.ఎం.ఎ - ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ తోనే సాధ్యమైనాయి . కానీ , సెంట్రల్ గవర్నమెంట్ తెచ్చే చట్టాలను - ఉదాహరణకు - ఇ.ఎస్.ఐ చట్టం , కస్టంస్ , ఇన్ కం టాక్స్ ,సర్వీస్ టాక్స్ , క్లినికల్ ఎస్టాబ్లిష్మెంట్ రెగ్యులేషన్ చట్టం - ఇలాంటి కేంద్ర ప్రభుత్వ  చట్టాలను ధీటుగా ఎదుర్కోవాలంటే   జాతీయ స్థాయిలొ పనిచేసే ఐ.ఎం.ఎ కే చెల్లుతుంది . తేలిక రుణాలు , డిస్పెన్సరీలకు ఫార్మసిస్ట్ లైసెన్స్ నుండివెసులుబాటు , సబ్సిడీ తో కరెంటు ఇలాంటి సౌకర్యాలు పొందాలన్నా నేషనల్ ఫోరం ద్వారానే సాధ్య పడుతుంది . వీటన్నింటినీ ద్రుష్టిలో పెట్టుకొని,  అన్ని రాష్ట్ర  శాఖలలో ప్రైవేట్ డాక్టర్స్ సంఘ ఉప శాఖలను త్వరితగతిన ఏర్పాటు చేయమని ఐ.ఎం.ఎ కేంద్ర సంఘం  కోరింది . ఈ సూచన మేరకు , ఐ.ఎం.ఎ ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్ ర...

For  admission into the UG courses like MBBS,BDS. This examination is jointly organized by the MCI and DCI. There are totally 335 medical colleges in which the students can take admission.    Date of NEET-2013 Examination : 5th May 2013(Sunday). please browse this link for  MCI Revised Eligibility Criteria For MBBS Course: http://www.mciindia.org/tools/announcement/2012Feb27_62051_Gazette_Notification_NEET-UG.PDF The Dental Council of India also amended the  BDS Course  Regulations 2007 and notified in the Gazette of India Extraordinary dated 31 May, 2012 that admission to  BDS Course  in each academic year shall be through National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET).  Schedule for NEET UG 2013 Online Registrations will  Starts from :       1/12/2012 to 31/12/2012 Last date for the receipt of confirmation page (print out) of  online application form   in CBSE without late fee:   For Normal Areas...

The NEET UG 2013 will be conducted in 6 regional languages , which are Gujarati, Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu and Assamese in addition to that Hindi and English, the minister for Health & Family Welfare, Ghulam Nabi Azad said. State governments and some medical colleges have filed writ petitions in respective High Courts seeking exemption from NEET. More than 26 writ petitions have been transferred to the Supreme Court of India and the matter is sub-judice and  any exclusion would depend upon the decision of supreme court in the pending transfer petitions. Majority of the states have accepted the proposal but few states have expressed apprehensions about the proposed NEET which pertained ti syllabus, medium of test, reservation policy etc. Most of the apprehensions have been addressed. The MCIs regulations on NEET clearly indicate that the prevailing reservation policy of states would not be disturbed. All are aware that the  Central Board of Seco...

BSc (Community Health) course In written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on Friday, Azad said the main objective of the proposed course, earlier known as Bachelor of Rural Health Care (BRHC), is to create mid-level health professionals who will be primarily deployed at sub-centres and would possess the necessary public health and ambulatory care competencies to serve the rural population.   eligible for the course will be those who have completed 10+2 with science subjects — Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Admission as well as deployment will be district based as far as possible. After acquiring the BSc (Community Health) degree, the graduates will be employed as Community Health Officers (CHOs) by state government, said Azad. A task force has been constituted to frame norms for requirement of physical infrastructure, facilities required in Rural Health Schools and examine aspects regarding introduction of the course. The matter is also being examined by the Parliamenta...

Surgery better for Type 2 diabetes, says study   laparoscopic gastric bypass surgery is a safe, efficacious, and cost-effective treatment for uncontrolled type 2 diabetes in patients having a high body mass index. A 96.2% improvement was found in the metabolic rate of the 52 patients at the end of five years. ROUND THE CLOCK "ABORTION CENTERS" Indian govt. going to establish  20,000 model health facilities that will provide abortion services round the clock and has prepared “Comprehensive Abortion Care” guidelines .   According to a recent study by the World Health Organisation and the New York-based Guttmacher Institute, India has the highest number of unsafe abortions in South and Central Asia. Of the 10.5 million abortions in the region, an estimated 6.5 million abortions take place in India (2008). And of these, two thirds are “unsafe abortions”, that is abortions that expose the woman to infection that could even lead to death.    And this hap...

DEAR DOCTORS, Please browse our IMA H.Q's national web site for all information regarding IMA's policy news ,welfare schemes,educational courses,JIMA, and other useful matter relevant to medical fraternity. you can also send suggestions& feed back to secretary general by mail. IMA H.Q has taken up a survey to assess and analyse health care standards in our country.  PLEASE  PARTICIPATE in this   SURVEY and contribute your suggestions to improve the standards of Indian health care system.  you can down load the suitable proforma from the home page. (  Dr. Narender Saini ,   Hony,. Jt. Secy., IMA AMS  is the Coordinator for this survey project). IMACON-2012 will be held at kanyakumari on 27th.&28th. of december-2012. please gear-up for this national conference and contribute your submissions,which will help to steer and guide the IMA's policy. For details browse-http://www.imacon2012.com/

HIV infections in India drop by 57%: UN report. Between 2001 and 2011, the rate of new HIV infections in India dropped by 57% as the country scaled up services, the UNAIDS World Aids Day report 2012 said. Low vitamin D increases risk of bladder cancer up to 600 percent.

Drug( Aflibercept )   that make cancer cells  'to sleep' by flipping the  molecular switches in the cancer’s structure so it cannot multiply. A biodegradable nanoparticle was used to stealthily deliver an antigen that tricks the immune system into stopping its attack on its own cells. The world's first tumour profiler is being developed by QuantuMDx -The device is relying on advanced nanotechnology, analysing microscopic amounts of tissue to work out the type of cancer, its genetic make-up and how far it has developed,  diagnosing all kinds of cancers and c ould also tell specialists which drug to prescribe for the cance

IMA & entire medical fraternity are unhappy and  strongly objecting the alliance and affiliation of this course with MCI. IMA suggests that this course may be attached and implemented under universities as like  any other PUBLIC HEALTH course(MPH &MBA Public health) and humanities courses. IMA has its own genuine  fear and doubt,  that the govt may designate these course holders as rural doctors and allow them to issue prescriptions. IMA urging the MOH&MCI to clarify the doubts of medical community and appraise the situation .  IMA observes, that it is the first time in our country, masters program  was started even before the introduction of bachelor course. IMA submits to entire media and the society, that this move of MOH  of introducing B.Sc course under the affiliation of MCI has ulterior motive against the doctor community.

what is drug policy? it  will structure and regulate the manufacturing,storage,pricing and sales practices of all medicines. what is the aim of the    National Pharmaceutical Pricing policy  ?   to bring 348 essential drugs under price control,    to ensure the availability of essential medicines  at reasonable prices.   what is the criteria to fix the prices of drugs? a group of ministers, headed by Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar proposed to fix prices based on  weighted average of  brands which have more than 1 per cent market share.but the supreme court alerted the govt ,  not to alter the existing mechanism of cost-based drug pricing. what is the present status of indian pharma industry?  the production turnover of the Indian pharma sector stood at Rs 1.05 lakh crore in 2010, and the country is the third largest producer of medicines by  volume in the world. It exports to over 200 countries.

dear students,please appear for NEET-PG,as the supreme court still pending the cases filed by various states and institutions. dont waste time and oppurtunity. IMA wishing all of you, "ALL THE BEST"

1.today, winter session of parliament commences and an array of important bills are going to be discussed before final approval. 2. drug pricing: The government  has resolved all the issues concerning the drug pricing policy and would finalise its stand before November 27, the deadline set by the Supreme Court. 3. Actually supreme court has to  finalise its verdict on NEET examination today. but the students are disappointed that the apex court didn't take up the issue today. 4.  Close to 10,000 Indians across the country who have completed their undergraduate medical education abroad are unemployed or under-employed. This is because these foreign-educated Indian doctors have not been able to clear the screening test mandated by the Medical Council of India (MCI). Now, the graduates plan to approach Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Parliament demanding that the screening test be scrapped.

Even though ,Under U.S. immigration rules (for j1 VISA), a foreign doctor  is obliged to return to his homeland for a period of at least two years before he can seek employment in the U.S,   the brain drain of doctors from developing countries continues to USA.  WHY ? Because,  an exception built into the law of The U.S. Federal Government,which has designated 2100 areas, mostly impoverished districts , as "medically under-served". If a foreign doctor agrees to work in one of these areas, the standard requirement, of two years outside the U.S. before working here, is lifted.   1. Typical earnings, as per one media report , ranged from $80,000 to $2,00,000 a year. Only in America can you make that much by serving the poor. 2.  Towns like Welch, populated largely by the very poor and the often sick, have little appeal for American doctors whose principal objective is to earn back the quarter of a million dollars they have spent on their medical edu...

Obtaining a medical license and being certified as a medical specialist by an ABMS Member Board are two different and separate processes. A license, legally required in order to treat patients, is issued and required by the state or territory in which a doctor practices medicine. A specialty certificate is issued by a medical specialty certifying board, which is valid nationwide. Although certification is not required for an individual physician to practice medicine, most hospitals and managed care organizations require that at least a certain percentage of their staff be, " board certified." Today, approximately 89% of licensed physicians are certified by one or more  ABMS Member Boards. "

If you don't wanna practice in US but want to do  Fellowship  (which is Superspeciality in India), it  require the residency in US. So ,for them Indian PG is not valid. But here is an exception for some fellowships like  Ophthalmic, Oncology  and  Emergency Care.

1.   Arunachalam Muruganantham created a system of simple machines to make modern sanitary napkins -- giving millions of women in his home country and around the world access to hygiene.   Contrary to a large-scale production model which requires Rs.3.5 Crores as initial investment,  Jayaashree Industries sanitary napkin-making machine can be made available to a buyer for approximately Rs.65,000. This allows smaller players to adopt the business model propagated by him. Any business model which helps to  offe r livelihood, hygiene, dignity and empowerment    to underprivileged is a great model to emulate.  IMA inspired by such people and rededicating itself to better the health care delivery to reach at door steps of consumers.

Wheel Chairs Powered by Fuel Cells and Solar Panels. Printing New Skin Directly onto Wounds -  new skin could be created in an instant, sprayed on like a printer sprays ink onto a paper? Regrowing Stereocilia -  Stereocilia, or the tiny hairs inside our ears, are an integral part of the hearing system. Solar Powered Hearing Aids -  the 600 million people who have hearing loss and the mere 8 million people who can afford a hearing aid .so the good news is , a $100 hearing aid with a solar powered battery that lasts as long as three years.

IMA Requests the readers to share their thoughts,how to conserve and save the energy?  1.U se T8 and T5 replaceable fluorescent lamps with electronic ballast instead of retrofit CFLamps to reduce the wastage of electronic components 2. Use the heat energy expelled by refrigerators and air conditioners to produce steam or hot water and this can be turned into useful energy.

AP gears up to promote generic drugs In an attempt to promote generic drugs in the capital and elsewhere, the Drug Control Administration (DCA) authorities  of A.P, are getting ready to implement a Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) directive to stop issuing licences to drug companies based on their brand names.    The new DCGI directive has already come into force in Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. Due to this new directive, there will be no brand promotion of drugs, which is rampant and carried out by medical representatives. so, its  feared, that strict enforcement of the latest rules could also trigger large scale retrenchments and impact the livelihood of medical representatives. Indian surgeon’s cheaper kidney transplant protocol “Worldwide, the acceptable rejection ratio for kidney transplants is 20 per cent. but with new protocol developed by hyderabad based nephrologist  Dr. K.S. Nayak ,who is using equine based antibodies (that s...

A recent survey has found alarmingly high levels of obesity, hypertension and anaemia among students of High  Schools.  Over 40 per cent avoid vegetables every day, and nearly 90 per cent of them eat no fruits. The students were also found to consume sugary beverages (soft drinks) twice a week and around 35 per cent of them watch television for more than two hours a day — making their lifestyles unhealthy.

some of the information in this post is from "THE HINDU" daily-Courtesy:  POONGOTHAI ALADI ARUNA - a practising obstetrician and gynaecologist, is a former Tamil Nadu Minister. The growth of medical education has been exponential in india, from 88 colleges in 1965, to 335 in 2011. for comparison,There are presently 141 accredited MD-granting institutions    in the U.S.for a population of 30 crores. various committees — from the Bhore committee in 1946, the Bajaj committee, the National Knowledge Commission-2007 (NKC), headed by Sam Pitroda, to the present Medical Council of India (MCI) Vision Documents 2011 — have made recommendations to improve the medical and paramedical education systems. what we need to improve the health care? Doubling the doctor population and creating new courses alone will not improve the standard of health care. On the other hand, it is easy access to health care, availability of medicines, provision of clean water, sanitation facil...

we know that the respect can't be pleaded or forced. But the situation of indian doctors and the plight of private doctors especially of rural areas deserves concern and utmost respect from the society.  No other professionals get compelled to work in rural areas.  It’s a fact that the nation does not, the supreme courts do not make similar observation of rural service by a lawyer, judge, by a chartered accountant, by an engineer or a paramedic or a physiotherapist or any other professional.  But doctors are compelled to go and serve the rural folk irrespective of lack of drugs,manpower,electricity,nursing staff,paramedics and other structural infrastructure. We can understand the importance attached to doctors, and the compelling thereof as a result of that extreme respect.  But every thing has some resilience before it snaps down. Unless the country protects the species of doctors,The country's health care is going in to the hands of corporate ...

USMLE is for  residency training (3yrs PG) in hospitals Where as  PLAB is needed   to work in UK based hospitals. there would be more residency positions available in US than the jobs in U.K as its very small country. it is difficult to get the initial employment in U.K, even after gone through the PLAB. Some people spend a year or two before they get one. Visa?  It is easier to get a visa to UK than US.  So, if you are Hard working and  lucky enough to get USA VISA,Its better to opt for USMLE rather than PLAB. Note: All the computer based exams (Step-1, Step-2CK, Step-3) can be given in your home country. Step-2CS which has a simulated patient encounter can be given only in United States. These exams can  be taken in any order (except step-3) but most people take step-1 first, then step-2 and finally step-3. Regardless of your qualification in any foreign country, you need to do residency  and board certification in the concerned specialit...

 Your Living Room is your future  Hospital !! no need to leave your living room to get health services.the simplified technology can be operated by parents themselves. After ear infections, a skin rash is the second leading reason for pediatric visits.  if you have cell scope and dermatoscope attached to your smart phone, any parent can take the pictures of ear drum and skin lesion and send those images to their family doctor and know the treatment by return SMS/ Mail. A $20 Stethoscope Attachment for a Smartphone to Diagnose Pneumonia  early diagnosis of an overlooked childhood killer: pneumonia, by   Using a specially designed microphone called a “stethomic” that plugs into the smartphone’s audio jack and an app that guides users through the proper method for listening to a patient’s breathing,  shows promising at accurately detecting the disease. Retail Clinics and Telemedicine. like any retail shops,chain of clinics will be commiss...

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Doctors and medical practitioners can benefit in using of mobile textbooks, diagrams, and apps. Some of these apps allow doctors to look up diseases, diagnosis, treatment and various other recommendations.  1. Caracal Diagnosis T he app allows doctors and medical practitioners to look up a database of over 1,600 diseases along with a database of over 2,200 signs, symptoms and lab findings. 2.  Porter's Pediatric ALS.  Porter's Pediatric ALS is particularly useful for life threatening emergencies as it offers suggestions and information for such situations.   You will be able to find sections related to trauma triage criteria, rapid triage instructions, mass casualty team player roles, how to run a triage of multiple patients and establish command, and more. It will even help you diagnose and treat multiple patients. The app also offers color-coded messages ranging from immediate care (red), due to the injury being life threatening, to no more need for treatment ...

Is it wiser to try  for USMLE exam to secure PG residency program in USA? Yes. when compared to indian context,where to get PG seat through competitive exam is difficult and to purchase a  management seat at 1.5 crore rupees ( 2.5 lac $),trying for USMLE is far far better option. its also a worthwhile investment. Once you join the residency, you would be able to earn($4000/month), sufficient money to pay for your previous debts/expenses. Exam Expenses. its presumed that the student appearing for step 1& 2CK in india. USMLE Step1 exam fee - $ 940- + if attending Kaplan coaching it costs around $500-$750 USMLE Step2 CK exam fee $ 940/- + kaplan coaching ($500-750) USMLE Step2 CS $ 1295/-  USMLE Step 3 $ 1000. Total exam fees: 4200 $ Kaplan coaching: 2000 $ Other costs for USMLE   US Citizen   FMG Air Travel for USMLE Step2 CS 150 + 1800 Air Travel for USMLE Step3 150 + 1800 Accommodation STEP 2 CS - Share, paying guest  300 * 300 * A...

Indian govt. to Doctors: Please Don’t Leave or We’ll Bring You Back Health Minister, Ghulam Nabi Azad, has said, “From this year (2012)onwards, any student going for further medical education to the US will have to give us a bond that he will come back after finishing the studies . Most of the students expressed their anger and  said,that  they studied in private colleges and they feel it is unfair to ask them to come back as they have not received any support from the government. The scenario of indian doctors and how they will suffer with this new regulation is as follows : most students travel to the US under a J1 visa, which works as an exchange programme. Here, students are treated as residents, where they study for at least three years and can continue to practice. Under this visa, it is mandatory for them to return to their home country after seven years to serve in their home country for two years. They can waive that return by serving in a rural area in the US. W...