Dr Shri Gopal Kabra
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Dr.Shri Gopal Kabra A man of medicine, laws and letters and a medical science journalist to boot – he has made
lasting impact in each of them. He graduated from R G Kar medical College, Calcutta, in 1961
with college Gold Medal in Medicine and then changed over to surgery.
He came to Rajasthan in 1963. Denied the opportunity to do MS in Surgery, he did first MSc
(Anatomy) and MS (Anatomy) and later when permitted did his MS in General Surgery.
He had a 6 year stint as Surgeon and Research Director at the SDM Hospital, Jaipur, where,
with Dr.P.K.Sethi he established Jaipur Foot center and did original work on Carbon Fiber
Orthoses and Cadaveric Bone Jaipur Foot, which received international acclaim.
The 100 bed, totally free, hospice for terminal cancer patients at SDM Hospital, Jaipur, was
established by him and supervised for over a decade.
After retirement he changed over to law and practiced law for 4 years and filed number of public
interest litigations and taught medicine to lawyers and judges and law to medical graduates.
He is an accomplished writer and a free-lance medical science journalist with 30 books and over
500 articles, both in Hindi and English, to his credit.
He received the nation's highest award for Science Writing in Hindi and several other literary
awards.
At 86 he is still active and working as Director Legal Affairs and Medical Audit at SDM
Hospital, Jaipur. He is a visiting faculty for Administrative Staff College, Hyderabad.
He joined as Director Clinical Services at Bhagwan Mahavir Cancer Hospital, Jaipur, where he
has initiated projects for free treatment of 3 childhood blood cancers.
Cancer Ki Katha Vyatha in Hindi by Rajkamal Prakashan, Delhi and From a Doctor's Diary, a
short story collection, by National Book Trust of India, Delhi, Logbook of Hsopital Life, a short
story collection, by Antara Infomedia Pvt. Ltd, Jaipur, Doctor Khada Bazar Me
Tort Reform Needed To Prevent Misuse Of Provisions Of CPA Act For Medical Neg...
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Medical Negligence: Major Takeaways from the National Medico-Legal Summit 2024
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Ignorance Of Medicine And Judicial Arrogance: Medicine Derailed
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Provisions In Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 That Decriminalize Medical Neglige...
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Status Of Health Care Services In Consumer Protection Act 2019: An Appraisal
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Consumer Protection Act: Patients Delight Doctors Dilemma
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Health Care Excluded From CPA 2019
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Need to review IMA v V P Shantha that put medical professionas under CPA
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Medical Negligence: Certification of cause of death –the judicial vers...
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Hazards In Assigning Cause Of Death In Medical Negligence Cases
You see only what you look for; you recognise only what you know" -- Dr. Merrill Sosman Actions are being initiated under the provisions of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) despit...
Reforming Legal Perspectives: The Case to Decriminalize Medical Negligence
A patient provided regular treatment by a qualified and licensed practitioner, by a team of medical personnel in a hospitalized situation, after due consent, should be excluded from the purview S...
Legal Fictions And Medical Negligence: Need To Revisit
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Like Judicial Professionals, Medical Professionals Also Need Protection For T...
Practice of medicine is too complex and vast to be amenable to easy non-professional regulation or judicial scrutiny. An extensively trained, qualified and licensed medical practitioner needs f...
Duty Of Care And Medical Negligence
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