The Indian Practitioner

Ashok Jahnavi Prasad

Abstract

I cons of modern medicine from India have largely remained unknown. While it is easy enough for a medical student to identify the ancient icons like Charaka and Susruta, many would have a difficult time naming the Indian medical icons of the last century. This is unfortunate as some towering stalwarts have made stellar contributions to clinical medicine which has revolutionised medical practise not just within the Indian sub-continent or Asia but the entire globe.

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Ashok Jahnavi Prasad

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Policy-makers and pundits are increasingly navigating the conundrum of the negative economic effects of population ageing on public health and pension entitlements. Our goal is to develop and help implement policies that assure our transition into a cohesive, productive, secure, and equitable ageing society. Failure to reach this goal will leave us with a society rife with intergenerational tensions–characterized by an enormous gap between the haves and the (increasingly less-educated) have-nots in quality of life and opportunity – and unable to provide the needed goods and services for any of its members, especially a progressively older and more dependent population. Gloomy though this scenario is, it is avoidable.

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