Dr.Srinivasa Raju

Over 50000 MBBS students graduating every year from 385 medical colleges across the country undergo the stressful-uncertain phase of their life.   Nearly two lakh young doctors in our country spend 2-5 years in coaching after successfully completing five years of MBBS, mugging MCQs  rather than treating patients and learning the art of healing." Reason: There are just 23000 postgraduate seats for which they all have to fight, this includes the candidates passed in previous batches. Over 6,000 seats lie in non-clinical subjects like forensics, anatomy, physiology and biochemistry which don’t interest youngsters due to “less return”. In the US  for 19,000 undergraduate seats,there are  32,000 postgraduate seats. UK also has same ratio. Lazy Myopic policy: After independence, India adopted “undergraduate education” as the basic education based on Dr Joseph Bhore Committee’s report(in 1943) to tackle the health issues (Communicable diseases which can be manage...

                                As on 2014: TOTAL PG SEATS IN GOVERNMENT 12800 TOTAL PG SEATS IN PRIVATE 10000 Diplomas:3778 Degrees :   17223 DNB seats:3574.

Add acid to any cell-blood or skin cells.Lo,you will get  "pluripotent" stem cells - which can develop into any of the specialised tissues of the body. The scientists believe that the acidity of the solution created a "shock" that caused the blood cells of adult mice to revert to their original, embryonic-like state. From this pluripotent state, the newly created stem cells were cultured in specially prepared solutions of growth factors to develop into fully mature cells, including an entire foetus.  the really intriguing thing to discover will be the mechanism underlying how a low pH shock triggers reprogramming. And why it does not happen when we eat lemon or vinegar or drink cola?"