Wealth of Health - from IMA

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.

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!

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 to mental stress and trauma. Doctor Ravi Wankhedkar and Doctor Jayesh Lele, both senior office bearers of the Indian Medical Association, discuss this serious malaise of Society, ie Violence Against Doctors, its causes, why perpetrators of such violence remain undeterred, the harmful effects of such violence on Doctors, and how together, the powers that be, society and doctors can work to get rid of Violence Against Doctors. This Podcast is Episode 2 in the IMA Podcast Series, Health of Wealth. If you believe this message is important enough to spread, please do share this podcast with your friends and family. Thank you!

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 series, Wealth of Health, Dr Sen and Dr Asokan discuss why it is critical that all doctors notify TB patients with the concerned authorities so that the government's stated objective -- to end TB from India by the year 2025, is met. Listen in, and if you feel this is an important enough message to spread the word about, please do share this podcast with your family and friends. Thank you.

Mrs Sunita (name changed on her request for her privacy), speaks with Dr Agam Vora, MD -- Chest & TB What 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 can still bounce back from second-stage, drug-resistant TB to full health.