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Dr A Marthanda Pillai, Dr S Arul Rhaj, and Dr J A Jayalal speak of the wonderful service that the Indian Medical Association has rendered to the entire space of Doctors, medical care providing professionals and through them, to the people of India over a century and a half. It is an inspiring account, and is brief testimony to the great respect the IMA enjoys not just in India, but across the world.This episode was one of five conceived, written, recorded, edited and mastered by Adfactors PR'...

Dr Jayesh Manohar Lele speaks with a young Resident doctor who works in a Mumbai hospital. The Resident doctor, who requested we give him a fictitious name for the conversation, spoke or the alarming work conditions of resident doctors whose work pressures often see them putting in more than 24 straight hours at work, living in cramped, terribly unhygienic and near-dilapidated accommodation often lacking basic facilities and eating food prepared in dirty kitchens. It is a shocking story!This ...

Violence against doctors is a curse indeed! The very doctors who try to save the lives of their patients, often have to face defeat in their efforts because patient relatives bring in their patients when it is already too late - whether after a physical accident or just in terms of the spread of a life-threatening disease. And then, when the doctors are unable to revive and save the patient, the relatives get furious and beat up the doctors, causing them grievous bodily harm and subject them ...

The launch episode of Wealth of Health, the podcast series from the Indian Medical Assocaition (IMA) features Dr Santanu Sen, National President of the Indian Medical Association and Member of Rajya Sabha, along with Dr R V Asokan, Hony Secretary-General of the IMA, and Chairman of the national End-TB initiative.Tuberculosis is a widespread airborne disease that has been a scourge across the country – one that the Indian government is determined to end by 2025. In this new podcast...

Mrs Sunita (name changed on her request for her privacy), speaks with Dr Agam Vora, MD -- Chest & TBWhat if, unfortunately, one contracts Tuberculosis, or TB? Well, don't fear. TB is fully curable, but it needs to be treated diligently, regularly, without missing medication. Listen to the story of a young woman, who contracted TB just after she'd got married. Her story is a lesson and to all about the perils of missing or giving up on treatment midway, and, on the other hand, of how one c...