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Raincoats, helmets protect Kolkata, Haryana doctors in coronavirus fight

The plight of doctors in the pandemic has cast a light on a dilapidated and overburdened public health system that has for years been starved of funds

Ready for suspended animation?

The emergency preservation and resuscitation procedure has already been used on at least one patient to give doctors more time

India's doctor-patient ratio still behind WHO-prescribed 1:1,000: Govt

Assuming an 80-per cent availability, it was estimated that around 9.27 lakh doctors were available for active service, which put the allopathic doctor-patient ratio at 1:1445, the minister said.

Errors in medical diagnosis

'Two types of errors are natural in any statistical testing procedure', says the author

Patients want doctors to listen to them: Survey

A staggering 90.2 per cent of the patients want the doctor to listen to them