Guest guest Posted June 10, 2002 Report Share Posted June 10, 2002 This is in response to the news paper report in The Hindu and the letter by Dr Umesh . It is Impossible many a time not to mention the diagnosis in the hospital records and the prescriptions. As Dr Umesh mentioned, what is the use in not mentioning the diagnosis if you are prescribing HAART and PCP prophylaxis? Isn't the pharmacist responsible for what happened? What about the HINDU it self?. Are they supposed to publish the identity of the patient in a national daily? Is it not the breach of confidentiality? Doctor bashing is becoming a fashion... Dr Ajithkumar.K Sr Lecturer in Dermatology Medical College Chest Hospital MG Kav ,Thrisur, Kerala,India PH 0487-333322 E-mail:<trc_ajisudha@...> _____________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 11, 2002 Report Share Posted June 11, 2002 This is in response to the news paper report in The Hindu and the letter by Dr Umesh . " It is Impossible many a time not to mention the diagnosis in the hospital records and the prescriptions. As Dr Umesh mentioned, what is the use in not mentioning the diagnosis if you are prescribing HAART and PCP prophylaxis? Isn't the pharmacist responsible for what happened? What about the HINDU it self?. Are they supposed to publish the identity of the patient in a national daily? Is it not the breach of confidentiality? Doctor bashing is becoming a fashion... " You make very important points!! The fact is not the profession of the individual but the behavior. Whether physician, journalist, pharmacist or government official. The thing that must be attacked is not the profession but the stigma and discrimination that make life for people with HIV hell. Vajpayee could spend more time making loud statements about this! Where is he? I have just had the great joy of visiting India all too briefly. But I have come away convinced that activism can and does thrive in India, as developed and carried out by Indians. It is CRUCIAL that more folks step forward to fight stigma and discrimination, carrying on the memory and activities of folks like Ashok Pillai. Make sure that the genuine problem is always identified. Stigma and discrimination is one area. Lack of access to treatment is another. And there will, I think, be more and more Indians with HIV, pharmacists, physicians, politicians, journalists beginning to recognize the necessity to work together and fight together to overcome the ultimate enemy--HIV (and other important infectious diseases like TB, cryptococcal infections, etc.) I'm looking forward to returning to India and learning more. As much as I learned is but a sliver of what there is to know. And while I see many differences, I also see lots of parallels between the issues we face in the United States and the west and the struggles in India and Nepal. And of course, the vicissitudes of human nature are common to us all--the greed, corruption, stupidity. They merely take on different flavors of local cultures. We must overcome these weaknesses in ourselves--and not be afraid to illuminate them in others when they have the effect of causing unnecessary suffering and death. I'll be posting a more complete report of my experiences at the First International Conference on Siddha Medicine as well as the efforts of FIAR's sister organization in Kathmandu, the Blue Diamond Society in the next week. Let's all keep up the good work--because I think things are changing in many ways for the better. M. Director, FIAR http://aidsinfonyc.org/fiar/index.html E-mail: <gmc0@...> (PS--is there more information on National NGO Forum on HIV/AIDS? Ref the message " Please contact yuvak@... for membership form for National NGO Forum on HIV/AIDS " ) ? _______________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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