Dr. (Prof.) B. M. Hegde
MBBS (Madras), MD (Lucknow), MRCP (U.K.), FRCP (Lond.), FRCP (Edin.), FRCP (Glas.), FRCP (Dub.), FACC (U.S.A.), Ph.D.(Hon. Causa), D.Sc.(Hon. Causa), FAMS
Cardiologist, Professor of Medicine, Physician-Scientist, Author, Former Vice Chancellor - Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Padma Vibhushan Awardee (2021), Padma Bhushan Awardee (2010), Dr. B C Roy National Awardee (1999)
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Articles: B. M. Hegde
IS THE PRESENT MEDICAL EDUCATION RELEVANT TO INDIA’S NEEDS?
Medical education in India has undergone very little change since its inception in 1857 by the East India Company in the three medical
IS THE WORLD FLAT?
It was in the year 1492 AD that Christopher Columbus left the shores of Spain in search of a new sea route to India with the hope that the........................................
IT IS NOT WHAT YOU EAT THAT KILLS YOU; IT IS WHAT EATS YOU THAT KILLS YOU.
Eat one must, to live. Eating and oxygen in the breathed in air continuously run this dynamic human ..........
JOYS AND SORROWS. (Job Stress Management)
Every job in this world comes with its in-built joys, and associated sorrows. It is only that person who could look at both.................
JUMPING GENES HYPOTHESIS.
Common man is daily bombarded with complicated data on the human genome and genetic engineering.....................
LEPTOSPIROSIS. (Weil’s Disease)
There is a scare about this “new” disease; the media is carrying all sorts of frightening information about this disease. It is reported in northern.................
LESSONS FOR LIFE
The conventional schooling system rarely equips the child with the realities of life........................
LET’S LEAVE THE WELL ALONE
“Time has come”, the Walrus said “to talk of many things-cabbages and kings….”.......................
LIFE EXPECTANCY VERSUS HEALTH EXPECTANCY.
Modern hi-tech medicine claims that it has increased human life expectancy. In fact, the life expectancy..........................
MATTER OF THE MIND.
Where is the mind? Never mind! What is matter, then? No matter. This was the idea of modern........................
ME NO DRINKEE FOR DRINKEE, ME DRINKEE FOR DRUNKEE
The above caption of a Chinaman’s tale is lifted right out of Bertrand Russell’s wonderful book The Conquest of Happiness. ....................................
MEDICAL EMERGENCIES IN DENTAL PRACTICE.
The greatest blow to the welfare of the patient has been the recent tendency, in the last fifty odd years, to demarcate health care systems into different specialties............................
MEDICAL SCIENCE AND BEDSIDE MEDICINE.
One would wonder in the beginning as to why the title seems to suggest that the two are different! Common .........................
MEDICAL SCIENTIFIC DELUSIONS
Today science means technology associated with it and the resultant money that accrues from all that. So much..............................
Medical Teleology
Positive sciences do not answer the question, "why?" They could, at best, answer "how" or "how..........................
Medical education in India has undergone very little change since its inception in 1857 by the East India Company in the three medical
IS THE WORLD FLAT?
It was in the year 1492 AD that Christopher Columbus left the shores of Spain in search of a new sea route to India with the hope that the........................................
IT IS NOT WHAT YOU EAT THAT KILLS YOU; IT IS WHAT EATS YOU THAT KILLS YOU.
Eat one must, to live. Eating and oxygen in the breathed in air continuously run this dynamic human ..........
JOYS AND SORROWS. (Job Stress Management)
Every job in this world comes with its in-built joys, and associated sorrows. It is only that person who could look at both.................
JUMPING GENES HYPOTHESIS.
Common man is daily bombarded with complicated data on the human genome and genetic engineering.....................
LEPTOSPIROSIS. (Weil’s Disease)
There is a scare about this “new” disease; the media is carrying all sorts of frightening information about this disease. It is reported in northern.................
LESSONS FOR LIFE
The conventional schooling system rarely equips the child with the realities of life........................
LET’S LEAVE THE WELL ALONE
“Time has come”, the Walrus said “to talk of many things-cabbages and kings….”.......................
LIFE EXPECTANCY VERSUS HEALTH EXPECTANCY.
Modern hi-tech medicine claims that it has increased human life expectancy. In fact, the life expectancy..........................
MATTER OF THE MIND.
Where is the mind? Never mind! What is matter, then? No matter. This was the idea of modern........................
ME NO DRINKEE FOR DRINKEE, ME DRINKEE FOR DRUNKEE
The above caption of a Chinaman’s tale is lifted right out of Bertrand Russell’s wonderful book The Conquest of Happiness. ....................................
MEDICAL EMERGENCIES IN DENTAL PRACTICE.
The greatest blow to the welfare of the patient has been the recent tendency, in the last fifty odd years, to demarcate health care systems into different specialties............................
MEDICAL SCIENCE AND BEDSIDE MEDICINE.
One would wonder in the beginning as to why the title seems to suggest that the two are different! Common .........................
MEDICAL SCIENTIFIC DELUSIONS
Today science means technology associated with it and the resultant money that accrues from all that. So much..............................
Medical Teleology
Positive sciences do not answer the question, "why?" They could, at best, answer "how" or "how..........................