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Mens Sana Monographs 

A Monongraph Series Devoted To The Understanding of Medicine, Mental Health, Mind , Man And Their Maxtrix 

Ajai R. Singh

Ajai R. Singh

Childhood Buddy Hangs Up

‘R’ really was special. Shouldered the responsibility of a business family at a tender age. Worked over inefficient estate management by elders, saw to it younger siblings were settled, sacrificed youth to bring up business and family. Enjoyed friends, drinks, driving. We were childhood buddies from the same town. I had met him a couple […]

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To Cure Sometimes, To Comfort Always, To Hurt The Least, To Harm Never

Medicine has to engage in battle on numerous fronts. To further scientific enquiry without giving up on the art of caring. To find more efficient methods of care, ameliorate disease and attendant suffering, without overriding human rights. To experiment, carry out clinical trials and refine processes of experimentation, without allowing human beings, especially from underprivileged

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Preface

What Medicine Means To Me is a first in many ways for MSM. This is the first Theme Monograph. It is also the first Monograph which has contributions from the Asian, Australian, American and African continents. Donelson Dulany, Professor of Psychology Emeritus at the University of Illinois and Editor, American Journal of Psychology, writes on, ′What Psychology Means To Me’

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Dr. A. Venkoba Rao

I have to inform with great regret the sad demise of Dr Venkoba Rao, one of the senior most and highly esteemed psychiatrists this country has produced. His research work in psychiatry and medicine, as well as his work in philosophy and the human predicament, have been noteworthy indeed. He was a researcher and an

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MSM poems

Silences IndeedSilences Allow whispers to Travel long distances.AndWhispers Make silences Come to life.AndAndIs a Whisper Between Two silences. Go to: Parliament Yesterday the crows gathered on our terrace for a meeting.There were at least five hundred of them if not more.And as they caw-cawed and moved about animatedly and argued and jostled and changed sides

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Call for poems in MSM Poems Section on Medicine, Health and Human Behaviour

We begin a Mens Sana Monographs Poems Section from this issue. Interested poets may send their work for consideration. They may be in verse, but preferably in blank verse. A fourline write up on the poet with a photograph must accompany every submission. You may submit not more than three poems at one time. While

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Medicine As a Corporate Enterprise, Patient Welfare Centered Profession, or Patient Welfare Centered Professional Enterprise?

Abstract There is an alarming trend in the field of medicine, whose portents are ominous but do not seem to shake the complacency and merry making doing the rounds. The wants of the medical man have multiplied beyond imagination. The cost of organizing conferences is no longer possible on delegate fees. The bottom-line is: Crores

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