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Doctors urged to update skills

EXHORTING PHYSICIANS: Kannur University Vice-Chancellor P. Chandramohan lighting the lamp to inaugurate the State conference of the Indian Homoeopathic Medical Association in Kannur on Sunday.

KANNUR: Kannur University Vice-Chancellor P. Chandramohan has called upon doctors to improve their relationship with patients and to update their knowledge and skills.

Inaugurating the State conference of the Indian Homoeopathic Medical Association (IHMA) here on Sunday, Dr. Chandramohan, a cardiothoracic surgeon by profession, said that doctors of all systems of medicine should keep pace with rapid changes in the health care field, adding that the most effective way of updating the knowledge was through interaction. He said that the deteriorating relationship between the physician and the patient was one of the major challenges facing the profession. He also said that unethical practices by unqualified people were a common problem in all systems of medicine.

Dr. Chandramohan said that life expectancy in the State would not have gone up from 34 in 1951 to above 70 in 2001 but for the yeomen services rendered by doctors. While the modern medicine would reach its conclusions first on the basis of clinical diagnosis and then of pathogenesis and pathology, homoeopathy was based on its premise that there was a life force in everything.

IHMA State president V. Sureshan presided over the inaugural function.

IHMA national president S. Sreejeev was the chief guest.

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