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
DEADLY NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS.
“Every year 5,000 patients in hospitals in Britain die from an infection acquired after they were admitted. Up to 100,000 more - almost one in ...............
DEEP DOWN MEDICAL SCIENCE IS SHALLOW.
The conventional research in medical science, better called statistical science, is all redcutionist and is based purely on the bio-medical ................
DEEP DOWN MEDICAL SCIENCE IS SHALLOW.
The conventional research in medical science, better called statistical science, is all redcutionist and is based purely on the bio-medical model of disease. ...........................
DEMOCRACY Vs DEMONOCRACY.
Mankind has been here for well over nine hundred thousand years in fifty thousand generations. However, man started living in groups on ..............
DEVELOPMENTAL HUMANISM.
Any activity on this planet must consider man as the centre point. This concept is called humanism. Humanism is a neologism. If the .......................
DISASTER MANAGEMENT.
Human life on this planet is an adventure and a gamble. One has to face life as it comes; disasters are but natural consequences of this kind of existence. It is not ...............................
DISEASE INVENTIONS.
This is a very strange world. Man is built to last by Nature as long as he lives. Diseases are only accidents. The medical .........................
DISEASE IS AN ACCIDENT.
Accident is an unexpected, undesirable event, especially one that results in injury, damage, or death. Diseases are also unexpected and undesirable events in one’s life...................
DISEASE IS AN ACCIDENT.
Accident is an unexpected, undesirable event, especially one that results in injury, damage, or death. Diseases are also unexpected and undesirable events in one’s life.......................
DO WE NEED MORE DRUGS FOR HYPERTENSION?
The question of therapy in medicine comes after the diagnosis. The most difficult diagnosis in medicine is the diagnosis of hypertension...........................
DO WE NEED NEWER ANTIHYPERTENSIVES?
The million-dollar question in hypertension is the problem of diagnosis. In my opinion there is nothing called essential hypertension. Every single patient with ................................
DOCTORS ARE FALLIBLE!
In the highly litigious society that we are in today, any mistake committed by doctors is dragged to the courts and the usual yardsticks of justice are applied here as well. By and large, when mistakes ..........................
DOCTORS' DHARMA. (Medical Philosophy)
Hon'ble Vice Chancellor Sir, beloved Director, Faculty members, parents of the graduates, guests, and the rightfully proud graduates..........................
DOCTORS’ DILEMMA
Medical information gets updated at a rate of 7% per month. Most of this is not worth knowing and some of it is downright useless, but the........................
DOCTORS’ DILEMMA
A thinking doctor will have a great dilemma in the midst of all the medical claptrap that is being sold to the gullible public. Most of what ....................
“Every year 5,000 patients in hospitals in Britain die from an infection acquired after they were admitted. Up to 100,000 more - almost one in ...............
DEEP DOWN MEDICAL SCIENCE IS SHALLOW.
The conventional research in medical science, better called statistical science, is all redcutionist and is based purely on the bio-medical ................
DEEP DOWN MEDICAL SCIENCE IS SHALLOW.
The conventional research in medical science, better called statistical science, is all redcutionist and is based purely on the bio-medical model of disease. ...........................
DEMOCRACY Vs DEMONOCRACY.
Mankind has been here for well over nine hundred thousand years in fifty thousand generations. However, man started living in groups on ..............
DEVELOPMENTAL HUMANISM.
Any activity on this planet must consider man as the centre point. This concept is called humanism. Humanism is a neologism. If the .......................
DISASTER MANAGEMENT.
Human life on this planet is an adventure and a gamble. One has to face life as it comes; disasters are but natural consequences of this kind of existence. It is not ...............................
DISEASE INVENTIONS.
This is a very strange world. Man is built to last by Nature as long as he lives. Diseases are only accidents. The medical .........................
DISEASE IS AN ACCIDENT.
Accident is an unexpected, undesirable event, especially one that results in injury, damage, or death. Diseases are also unexpected and undesirable events in one’s life...................
DISEASE IS AN ACCIDENT.
Accident is an unexpected, undesirable event, especially one that results in injury, damage, or death. Diseases are also unexpected and undesirable events in one’s life.......................
DO WE NEED MORE DRUGS FOR HYPERTENSION?
The question of therapy in medicine comes after the diagnosis. The most difficult diagnosis in medicine is the diagnosis of hypertension...........................
DO WE NEED NEWER ANTIHYPERTENSIVES?
The million-dollar question in hypertension is the problem of diagnosis. In my opinion there is nothing called essential hypertension. Every single patient with ................................
DOCTORS ARE FALLIBLE!
In the highly litigious society that we are in today, any mistake committed by doctors is dragged to the courts and the usual yardsticks of justice are applied here as well. By and large, when mistakes ..........................
DOCTORS' DHARMA. (Medical Philosophy)
Hon'ble Vice Chancellor Sir, beloved Director, Faculty members, parents of the graduates, guests, and the rightfully proud graduates..........................
DOCTORS’ DILEMMA
Medical information gets updated at a rate of 7% per month. Most of this is not worth knowing and some of it is downright useless, but the........................
DOCTORS’ DILEMMA
A thinking doctor will have a great dilemma in the midst of all the medical claptrap that is being sold to the gullible public. Most of what ....................