[Our education policy-makers and parents may benefit by reading this article. —Ed] By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD This is that time of the year when I see anxious parents regularly walking into my clinic with their young, school and college-going children who seem to be suffering from some very perplexing symptoms, very refractory to…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The week that has gone by may have been a harbinger of much joy and satisfaction to the thousands of private doctors in Karnataka who were protesting against the tabling of the amendment to the KPME Act in the ongoing Assembly session. Thanks to their rare show of solidarity…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The ongoing state-wide agitation by private doctors and medical establishments against the proposed amendments to the KPME Act of 2007 has now become an ugly standoff between them and the State Government which seems hell-bent on implementing a very illogical, if not completely insane, statute that it says is…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD [Continued from Nov. 10] While I’m writing this in continuation of my last Friday’s article, the Draconian provisions enshrined in the proposed amendment to the already infamous KPME Act have been very well portrayed by my good friend Dr. K.S. Kumar in his article published in the SOM yesterday….
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD The proposed amendment to the Karnataka Private Medical Establishments (KPME) Act is on the anvil and the issue has indeed become very hot with all private doctors across the State protesting against it. While all people know that there is trouble brewing between the government and private doctors most…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem The Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Vidhana Soudha, our Secretariat building, have just gone by. It is the seat of power and pelf from where our elected and nominated netas dictate terms even to the highest and the mightiest among us. It is also the place from where they dole…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My last week’s article about how life was before telephony really became lightning-fast has drawn many responses from readers, both young and old. Prof. R. Chandraprakash, in a very interesting letter to the editor three days ago, has recalled how we used to molly-coddle our landline telephone instruments as…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Last night I happened to attend a CME. Now, this acronym which may seem a little unknown to most people, stands for ‘Continuing Medical Education’ and it denotes an educational activity that involves lectures, seminars or workshops which give doctors an opportunity to refresh and update their knowledge in…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD My recent article about the play ‘Barff’ which I attended at Chowdaiah Memorial Hall in Bengaluru and my own experience while attending a medical conference, which was similar to that of the main character in the play, has drawn many responses from readers. While all of them have written…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD Today morning when I picked up my newspaper I was pained to read that there had been three train accidents yesterday in our country in just nine hours. Although there had been no deaths this time, it was still a pretty bad score in the already dismal track record…
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