Medical education in India is broken. A major problem is that medical college seats are no longer allotted to students based on their merit. The majority of seats are reserved for students who come from " backward classes "; and another huge chunk are reserved for ric......

Nova IVI is a corporate chain of IVF clinics all over India which recently took out a full page ad in The Times of India , advertising their IVF services. Lots of IVF doctors in private practise find this very unfair .  As individual doctors , even though we provide a......

Lots of companies have set up chains of IVF clinics in India , such as Nova IVI , Morpheus, Bourne Hall and Cloud 9. Patients often ask us how we compare with them , since we are a standalone clinic. Now, every model has certain advantages and disadvantages, and patien......

Perhaps the most widely accessed source of information about health topics around the world is Wikipedia.However, the quality of Wikipedia articles on health and illness often leave a lot to be desired.Even worse, since the vast majority are in English, they are still......

I was very excited when I saw the full page advertisement Aviva Life Insurance ran on 18 Dec 2016 in the Times of India , on providing heart care to couples. The IRDA now allows life insurers to also cover medical illnesses , and I think this is a very healthy trend. In......

Many infertile patients can't understand what their doctors mean when they tell them that their diagnosis is unexplained infertility.  How can unexplained possibly be a diagnosis ? Does this mean that the doctor is clueless and they need to find a better doctor ? Unexpl......

Every startup has three customers,  but this is something which lots of startup founders don't seem to realize. The most important customer is of course the person who's going to pay you for using your product or service. This should be your primary focus . If you can d......

I often see patients who've been to poor quality IVF clinics. Now I can understand that they may go to a bad clinic for their first cycle because they don't know any better, but by the time they've done a second and third cycle they should be able to start realizing tha......