Dr Michael Minton

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What Should Medicine Do When it Can’t Save Your Life?

January 6, 2012

“Our medical system is excellent at trying to stave off death with eight-thousand-dollar-a-month chemotherapy, three-thousand-dollar-a-day intensive care, five-thousand-dollar-an-hour surgery. But, ultimately, death comes, and no [...]
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September 2010

September 29, 2010

SPOTLIGHT… How much progress has palliative care made in India during the last decade? Tremendous, if we count the number of palliative care centres. But then [...]
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Comment: What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?

August 27, 2010

Dr Michael Minton comments on an article in The New Yorker by Dr Atul Gawande: “This is a very insightful article by an American surgeon [...]
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Trichy Palcon 2010

April 25, 2010

Those of you who missed the excellent XVII Annual Conference of the Indian Association of Palliative Care that Dr Mohansundaram organized in Trichy, might like [...]