By Kristian Dye Dhillon et al. present a case discussing the care of a patient with Ebola, which demonstrates in a microcosm some of the biggest issues facing healthcare providers in patients with palliative or terminal care needs – albeit in a particular extreme care environment. In the case, the patient is declared palliative and restarted on active […]
Category: Global Health
Malpositioned IUCD: the menace of postpartum IUCD insertion
By Manasi Jiwrajka The three cases presented by Nigam et al outline the malposition of an intra-uterine contraceptive device (IUCD) in young women who had given birth in the previous 1-2 years. Some significant global health problems in this report are: The importance of contraception and family planning in India Contraceptive options available for women […]
Case Report: An 11-year-old boy with silico-tuberculosis attributable to secondary exposure to sandstone mining in central India
By Midhun Mohan This is a case about an 11-year old who developed silicosis after being exposed to sandstone mining. Stone-mining is a lucrative industry producing billions of dollars in export every year. Despite being highly profitable, the health impacts of the industry are severely under researched. The authors state that: “no preventive measures have […]
Safer prescribing by empowering patients?
By Kristian Dye For this post, I have chosen to write about a Case Report that comes from the United Kingdom. It’s about a patient with a complex set of management challenges, however none of them are rare – and the United Kingdom is almost certainly one of the best places in the world to […]
Jogini Culture and HIV
By Manasi Jiwrajka The case report HIV in India: the Jogini Culture presents a case of a 32 year old Jogini from rural Andhra Pradesh who is HIV positive. ‘Jogini’, ‘Devadasi’ or ‘Mathamma’ are terms used to describe a girl committed to theogamy, or in other words, who is ‘married’ to a deity when she […]
Socioeconomic Privation & Congenital Birth Defects – Cause or Coincidence?
By Kristian Dye This week I’m looking at two very sad cases of stillbirth in Cali, Colombia. When we think of disease caused by social circumstance we often imagine non-communicable diseases or infectious diseases, usually where poor living conditions loom large in the aetiology. When we consider the higher rates of genetic birth defects in […]
Ramifications of poor medical education and screening in minority populations: an extensive acral melanoma
By Manasi Jiwrajka Ramifications of poor medical education and screening in minority populations: an extensive acral melanoma reports a case of a Samoan man with acral melanoma and explores the precipitating factors leading to the progression of a condition that may otherwise have been screened for and treated at a much earlier stage. This case is […]
Maternal mortality in the developing world – what circumstances lead to the death of this young woman?
By Midhun Mohan – Student Editor Read this case about a 25-year-old anaemic woman who died from a massive atonic postpartum haemorrhage How and why did this happen? The case report states that on a national scale a culmination of three factors are responsible for the state of healthcare in India, especially in regard to […]
A case of an erroneous preference diagnosis?
“Misdiagnosing patients’ preferences may be less obvious than misdiagnosing disease, but the consequences for the patient can be just as severe”, states a new publication from the Kings Fund – Patients’ preferences matter: stop the silent misdiagnosis. The author, Al Mulley, argues that well informed patients make different choices about their treatment. Also, patients’ may […]
Global Health: Kneeling delivery in America 2000 years ago
The kneeling delivery of a child is pictured on a piece of Tumaco-La Tolita pottery from South America crafted 2000 years ago. What can we learn from these pre-Columbian Indians? Seema Biswas Editor-in-Chief Kneeling delivery in America 2000 years ago […]