31 Doctors in this Family and Still Counting

As per a report:
When Vinamrita Patni, secured 107th rank in the recently held RPMT, she will become the 32nd member of her family to join the medical profession after she completes her MBBS course. Read full story  here at......31 Doctors in this Family and Still Counting

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Doctors baffled by village of 200 sets of twins

KODINJI, India: Walk around Kodinji village and you'll think that you have double vision.

The village is home to as many as 230 sets of twins. Nobody knows why there are so many twins in the village of 15,000 people, although one local doctor suspects it might be due to the water.Read More................Doctors baffled by Indian village of 200 sets of twins

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130-yr-old patient puzzles doctors

An ascetic admitted in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) claims to be 130 years old, but the doctors at the premier hospital are taking it with a pinch of salt. Read more................130-yr-old patient puzzles doctors

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Superstitious doctors kill younger son to make elder 'smarter'

Here is another bizarre incident where blind faith and superstition won over science and logic & cost a 12-year-old boy his life.

The boy was killed by his own parents, Ashok and Pramila Malik - both of them doctors in Rohtak city in Haryana state of India - all because a tantrik (quack) told Pramila that she needs to transfuse the boy's blood into the body of his older brother to help him pass his medical exams.

Pramila and her Ashok made a cut in an artery in their younger son's neck and tried to transfuse the blood into the older one. Read more..........Doc parents kill younger son to make elder 'smarter'

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Man gets toothbrush stuck in throat

Here is this old man aged 60 from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu state of India who got stuck a six-inch-long toothbrush accidentally in his throat. Doctors in the Government Hospital here successfully removed it fron man's throat.

Ramasamy, a plantation worker, was brushing his teeth when the incident happenned.
Narrating the incident to his wife, Ramasamy complained of severe throat pain. He was taken to the Pollachi Government hospital, from where he was referred to Coimbatore, Dr Kumaran, Dean (in-charge) of the Hospital said.

After carrying out endoscopy, the doctors located the brush and removed it carefully, without damaging the windpipe or tearing the tissues, Kumaran said.

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Priests preferred to Doctors for cure

Here are tribal people of Arunachal Pradesh state in India who still believe in community priests rather than medical practitioners to cure diseases.

Close to half of the 1.1 million population of the state, bordering Tibet and Myanmar, are either animists or believers of a primitive faith called Donyi Polo whose followers worship the sun and moon gods.

Lui Sena had been running a high fever accompanied by a splitting headache for the past 10 days. After herbal remedies and a visit to a doctor failed to cure the eight-year-old boy, Sena's parents carried him in a makeshift stretcher made of bamboo staves to 72-year-old Dera Topu, the village priest.

Squatted on the wooden floor of his stilted bamboo and straw hut, Topu was engrossed in prayers with his eyes closed and hands folded. The priest chanted hymns and fanned Sena with a multi-coloured hornbill feather.

"This boy is haunted by evil spirits and now I have to ward off the spirit. No medicines or doctors could cure the boy. You did the right thing by coming to me," the priest told Sena's parents.

An hour later, the little boy said he was feeling comfortable.

Isn't it strange that in this "Scientific, 21st century world", still there are people who believe in all such weird practices!!!!

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