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Arthroscopy, Arthroplasty & Sports injuriesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-4247718863526560472015-09-07T07:07:00.000-07:002015-09-07T07:18:40.812-07:00Bone Health <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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bones healthy (to be updated soon)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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easier than you think. Understand how diet, physical activity and other
lifestyle factors can affect your bone mass.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Bones play many roles in the body
— providing structure, protecting organs, anchoring muscles and storing
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">While it's particularly important
to take steps to build strong and healthy bones during childhood and
adolescence, you can take steps during adulthood to protect bone health, too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #424648; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Why is bone health important?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Your bones are continuously
changing — new bone is made and old bone is broken down. When you're young,
your body makes new bone faster than it breaks down old bone, and your bone
mass increases. Most people reach their peak bone mass around age 30. After that,
bone remodeling continues, but you lose slightly more bone mass than you gain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">How likely you are to develop
osteoporosis — a condition that causes bones to become weak and brittle —
depends on how much bone mass you attain by the time you reach age 30 and how
rapidly you lose it after that. The higher your peak bone mass, the more bone
you have "in the bank" and the less likely you are to develop
osteoporosis as you age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #424648; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 21.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">What affects bone health?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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A number of factors can affect
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in your diet.</span></b><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> A diet low in calcium
contributes to diminished bone density, early bone loss and an increased risk
of fractures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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osteoporosis than do their more-active counterparts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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use.</span></b><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> Research suggests that tobacco use contributes to
weak bones. Similarly, regularly having more than two alcoholic drinks a day
increases the risk of osteoporosis, possibly because alcohol can interfere with
the body's ability to absorb calcium.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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because women have less bone tissue than do men. You're also at risk if you're
extremely thin (with a body mass index of 19 or less) or have a small body
frame because you may have less bone mass to draw from as you age. Also your
bones become thinner and weaker as you age.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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history.</span></b><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> You're at greatest risk of
osteoporosis if you're white or of Asian descent. In addition, having a parent
or sibling who has osteoporosis puts you at greater risk — especially if you
also have a family history of fractures.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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loss increases dramatically at menopause due to dropping estrogen levels.
Prolonged periods absence of menstruation (amenorrhea), before menopause also
increases the risk of osteoporosis. In men, low testosterone levels can cause a
loss of bone mass.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other conditions.</span></b><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> People who have anorexia or
bulimia are at risk of bone loss. In addition, stomach surgery (gastrectomy),
weight-loss surgery and conditions such as Crohn's disease, celiac disease and
Cushing's disease can affect your body's ability to absorb calcium.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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prednisone, cortisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone, are damaging to bone.
Other drugs that may increase the risk of osteoporosis include aromatase
inhibitors to treat breast cancer, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors,
methotrexate, some anti-seizure medications and proton pump inhibitors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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calcium in your diet.</span></b><span style="color: #0e0e0e; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> For adults ages 19 to 50 and men
ages 51 to 70, the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) is 1,000 milligrams (mg)
of calcium a day. The recommendation increases to 1,200 mg a day for women
after age 50 and for men after age 70. Good sources of calcium include dairy
products, almonds, broccoli, kale, canned salmon with bones, sardines and soy
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<span style="color: #10131a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">After witnessing many
"health camps" in the past two decades, I have been advocating
against such practice. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10131a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">These are nothing but useless
programs aimed at self promotion, business promotion, corporate advertising,
catch volunteers for a clinical trial ; it suits the interests of self
declared social activist organizations - to add to their scrap book. It also
shows the failure of the health systems to reach the masses. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10131a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Remember that during these health
camps, doctors have to discharge their duties under sub optimal conditions,
patients are subjected to violation of their rights to privacy. Surgical health
camps like dental/ cataract/ sterilisation are even more disastrous. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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OEU in KH, OBG in KH, SDM in Dharwad have successfully done it for years.
Subsidized care through insurance based health cards is also a great way to
spread health care.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #10131a; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">However the publicity hungry, new
age health administrators are more interested in the photograph with banners in
the media, than actual health care to the needy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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administrators…avoid such camps in sub optimal conditions, avoid playing with
the lives of people with contaminated generic medicines…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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How hospitals discourage doctors: A step by step guide</h1>
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Not accustomed to visiting hospital executive suites, I took my seat in the waiting room somewhat warily.</div>
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Seated across from me was a handsome man in a well-tailored three-piece suit, whose thoroughly professional appearance made me — in my rumpled white coat, sheaves of dog-eared paper bulging from both pockets — feel out of place.</div>
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Within a minute, an administrative secretary came out and escorted him into one of the offices. Exhausted from a long call shift and lulled by the quiet, I started to doze off. Soon roused by the sound of my own snoring, I started and looked about.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">That was when I spotted the document on an adjacent chair. Its title immediately caught my eye: </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">“How to Discourage a Doctor.”</b></div>
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No one else was about, so I reached over, picked it up, and began to leaf through its pages. It became apparent immediately that it was one of the most remarkable things I had ever read, clearly not meant for my eyes. It seemed to be the product of a health care consulting company, presumably the well-dressed man’s employer. Fearing that he would return any moment to retrieve it, I perused it as quickly as possible. My recollection of its contents is naturally somewhat imperfect, but I can reproduce the gist of what it said:</div>
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<b>The stresses on today’s hospital executive are enormous. </b>They include a rapidly shifting regulatory environment, downward pressures on reimbursement rates, and seismic shifts in payment mechanisms. Many leaders naturally feel as though they are building a hospital in the midst of an earthquake. With prospects for revenue enhancement highly uncertain, the best strategy for ensuring a favorable bottom line is to reduce costs. And for the foreseeable future, the most important driver of costs in virtually every hospital will be its medical staff.</div>
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<b style="background-color: yellow;">Though physician compensation accounts for only about 8% of health care spending, decisions that physicians strongly influence or make directly — such as what medication to prescribe, whether to perform surgery, and when to admit and discharge a patient from the hospital — have been estimated to account for as much as 80% of the nation’s health care budget. </b><span style="background-color: white;">To maintain a favorable balance sheet, hospital executives need to gain control of their physicians. Most hospitals have already taken an important step in this direction by employing a growing proportion of their medical staff.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Transforming previously independent physicians into employees has increased hospital influence over their decision making</span><span style="background-color: white;">, an effect that has been successfully augmented in many centers by tying physician compensation directly to the execution of hospital strategic initiatives. But physicians have invested many years in learning their craft, they hold their professional autonomy in high esteem, and they take seriously the considerable respect and trust with which many patients still regard them.</span></div>
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As a result, the challenge of managing a hospital medical staff continues to resemble herding cats.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Merely controlling the purse strings is not enough. To truly seize the reins of medicine, it is necessary to do more, to get into the heads and hearts of physicians. </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">And the way to do this is to show physicians that they are not nearly so important as they think they are.</b><span style="background-color: white;"> Physicians have long seen the patient-physician relationship as the very center of the health care solar system. As we go forward, they must be made to feel that this relationship is not the sun around which everything else orbits, but rather one of the dimmer peripheral planets, a Neptune or perhaps Uranus.</span></div>
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<b>How can this goal be achieved? A complete list of proven tactics and strategies is available to our clients, but some of the more notable include the following:</b></h4>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Make health care incomprehensible to physicians.</b> It is no easy task to baffle the most intelligent people in the organization, but it can be done. For example, </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">make physicians increasingly dependent on complex systems outside their domain of expertise, such as information technology and coding and billing software.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Ensure that such systems are very costly, so that solo practitioners and small groups, who naturally cannot afford them, must turn to the hospital. </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">And augment their sense of incompetence by making such systems user-unfriendly and unreliable.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Where possible, change vendors frequently.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b>Promote a sense of insecurity among the medical staff. A comfortable physician is a confident physician, and a confident physician usually proves difficult to control.</b> To undermine confidence, let it be known that physicians’ jobs are in jeopardy and their compensation is likely to decline. </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">Fire one or more physicians, ensuring that the entire medical staff knows about it. Hire replacements with a minimum of fanfare. </span><span style="background-color: white;">Place a significant percentage of compensation at risk, so that physicians begin to feel beholden to hospital administration for what they manage to eke out.</span></div>
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Transform physicians from decision makers to decision implementers. Convince them that their professional judgment regarding particular patients no longer constitutes a reliable compass.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Refer to such decisions as anecdotal, idiosyncratic, or simply insufficiently evidence based. Make them feel that their mission is not to balance benefits and risks against their knowledge of particular patients, but instead to apply broad practice guidelines to the care of all patients. </span><b style="background-color: yellow;">Hiring, firing, promotion, and all rewards should be based on conformity to hospital-mandated policies and procedures.</b></h3>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Subject physicians to escalating productivity expectations. Borrow terminology and methods from the manufacturing industry to make them think of themselves as production-line workers, then convince them that they are not working sufficiently hard and fast. </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">Show them industry standards and benchmarks in comparison to which their output is subpar. </span><span style="background-color: white;">On the off chance that their productivity compares favorably, cite numerous reasons that such benchmarks are biased and move the bar progressively higher.</span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white;">Increase physicians’ responsibility while decreasing their authority. </b><span style="background-color: yellow;">For example, hold physicians responsible for patient satisfaction scores, but ensure that such scores are influenced by a variety of factors over which physicians have little or no control, such as information technology, hospitality of staff members, and parking.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> The goal of such measures is to induce a state that psychologists refer to as learned helplessness, a growing sense among physicians that whatever they do, they cannot meaningfully influence health care, which is to say the operations of the hospital.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Above all, introduce barriers between physicians and their patients. The more directly physicians and patients feel connected to one another, the greater the threat to the hospital’s control.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">When physicians think about the work they do, the first image that comes to mind should be the hospital, and when patients realize they need care, they should turn first to the hospital, not a particular physician. </span><span style="background-color: yellow;">One effective technique is to ensure that patient-physician relationships are frequently disrupted, so that the hospital remains the one constant.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> Another is …</span></div>
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The sound of a door roused me again. The man in the three-piece suit emerged from the office, he and the hospital executive to whom he had been speaking shaking hands and smiling. As he turned, I looked about. Where was “How to Discourage a Doctor?” It was not on the table, nor was it on the chair where I had first found it. “Will he think I took it?” I wondered. But instead of stopping to look for it, he simply walked out of the office. As I watched him go, one thing became clear: Having read that document, I suddenly felt a lot less discouraged.</div>
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<em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Richard Gunderman is a professor of radiology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN. This article originally appeared in <a href="http://thehealthcareblog.com/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #008be8; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank">The Health Care Blog</a> and was reprinted with the author’s permission in http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2014/09/hospitals-discourage-doctors-step-step-guide.html</em></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-77140974844869161452014-03-05T18:02:00.000-08:002014-03-05T18:04:23.098-08:00Do Not Substitute: a clear message<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A prescription by a doctor is his "signature", as far as patients treatment is concerned. Of late the it has become a trend substitute medications in Private pharmacies, corporate hospital pharmacies. Medicines manufactured by spurious companies, substandard generics may not yield the intended results, thus rendering the treatment ineffective. Who suffers? The TRUST, between the patient and the doctor!<br />
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The rules are very clear: <b style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">No pharmacist can substitute a Brand Generic medicine, without doctors prescription/ permission. </b><span style="background-color: #c0a154; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">(Reference: Rule 65 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Rules 1945, amended till 1995)</span><br />
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In a healthy development, a court has punished a pharmacist for substitution the medicines prescribed by a doctor...<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-31232713501103213592014-02-06T06:41:00.001-08:002014-02-06T06:44:49.589-08:00End of monopoly & restrictive trade practices at Private Hospitals<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>1. Generic medicines/ Branded Generics are not necessarily cheaper than Branded medicines!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Generics/ Brand Generics pass on close to 800% margin to the retailer, while the price may be just cheaper by 40%<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081449/table/T1/" style="color: #993322; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> (click here for info)</a> or check table:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In some corporate hospitals price of the Brand Generic can be higher than Branded medicines as brand generic suppliers can stamp the MRP dictated by the administrators! </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Example: Injection Meropenem: Meromac -branded MRP is Rs 871, Merofit- Brand Generic: Rs 2494. The hospital supply rate for both are around Rs 750. </span></h4>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>2. No pharmacist can substitute a Brand Generic medicine, without doctors prescription/ permission. </b>(Reference: Rule 65 of the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and Rules 1945, amended till 1995)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>3. Debate required on : </b>whether a hospital can insist on medicines to bought in its own pharmacy, where choices are limited, and drugs from non FDA listed drug companies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>4. Remember:</b> you have placed your trust with your DOCTOR. He knows what is the best for you. It is well within your right, to expect "no substitution" and choice of medicines at a pharmacy. Restrictive trade practices have been banned in India! (through MRTP Act, 1969)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While even your cooking salt is branded, why settle for an unbranded life saving medicine?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>Question
here: </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt;">is
not about the validity of first/ second or third opinions on the patient/ x ray
in question. <span style="background-color: yellow;">It is about the gross misuse of a social networking site, for
maligning an institution- hospital, defaming an orthopaedic surgeon of
repute.</span> Sadly, Dr Attique Vasdev (Manipal University Alumnus) who was at the receiving end of the facebook
post, is not on facebook. He came to know about the post through his friends
& Orthopaedics- Manipal University Alumni group on facebook. All efforts to
post Dr Attique`s version of the incident, were promptly removed by the
patients husband.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Dr Attique Vasdev`s version: </b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;">“The patient was referred to me by an old patient and
came into the ER on the eve of 18th of November. I recommended an X-ray which
indicated a Lateral Malleolus Fracture with Syndismotic Disruption. In view of
the fact that this kind of fracture can lead to degenerative changes or painful
joints, as per the AO [Arbeitsgemeinschaft für OsteoDePuy Synthesefragen or
translated to Association for the Study of Internal Fixation ] guidelines of
fracture management for ankle injuries the recommended strategy is surgery as
the best course of action. <span style="background-color: yellow;">My opinion was in the best interest of the patient,
and the patient alone.</span> I did not at any point state whether this was a ‘grade 3
fracture’. That is not terminology we use and was not used in your case.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Dr Ashok Rajgopal, Chairman, Bone and Joint Institute,
Medanta</b> :The Medicity has reviewed the case and his view is as follows,
"I am honestly shocked at the contents of the post going viral. The x-rays
show a very clear indication for intervention. Anyone with experience in fracture
treatment and who has attended any AO [Arbeitsgemeinschaft für OsteoDePuy
Synthesefragen or translated to Association for the Study of Internal Fixation]
course, which is the bible of fracture treatment, would endorse, whole
heartedly, the opinion given by Dr Attique."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>When it comes to life saving medicines, whether on should consider "unbranded" or "generic" medicines is the debate...</i></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Why the branded medicines are expensive?</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Why generic medicines cost less than 1/10 of branded?</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Given a choice, whether a doctor would prescribe/ recommend a "generic" drug to his near and dear?</b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have to take medications for an illness or injury, you know those medications aren’t free. You’ll pay for them out of pocket, through insurance and insurance deductibles, or through retirement funds such as Medicare or Medical Insurance. While you might opt for the less expensive drug, such as a generic drug, are you compromising your health with that choice? Or, will Medicare or your insurance put up roadblocks to choosing a less expensive, but just as effective medication? What does your </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">pharmacist</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> have to say about your prescription, no matter if it’s a brand-name drug or a generic substitute? Learn more about what constitutes a generic drug, and whether they stack up against name brands.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sarahrosenau/212801685/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #027ee7; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Medications" class="alignright size-full wp-image-32" height="150" src="http://pharmacytechnicianonlineschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Medications.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="Medications" width="150" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Generic drugs are copies of brand-name drugs.</span> They have the same dosage and strength, intended use, effects, side effects, administration instructions, risks and safety as name brand drugs. One way to tell the difference between a generic drug and a name brand is to look at the name of the drug. Brand names are capitalized, where generic names are not.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While some people are concerned that generic drugs are “less” of a drug than a name brand because of lower prices, the </span><a href="http://www.fda.gov/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #027ee7; text-decoration: underline;" title="U.S. Food and Drug Administration"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">U.S. Food and Drug Administration</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (FDA) requires that generic drugs be as safe and as effective as the brand-name drugs that they copy. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">There is no truth in rumors that suggest generic drugs are manufactured in deficient laboratories or that they are created in non-sterile environments.</span> The FDA applies the same standards for all drug manufacturing facilities, and many companies manufacture both brand-name and generic drugs. In fact, the FDA estimates that 50 percent of generic drug production is by brand-name companies.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only reason that generic drugs are less expensive is because the manufacturers don’t have the expense involved in developing and marketing a new drug. When a company brings a new drug on the market, the costs can be astronomical. Drug developers spend money on:</span></div>
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<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_discovery" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #027ee7; text-decoration: underline;" title="Research and Development"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Research and Development</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Also known as drug discovery, this is the time when drugs are discovered or designed. The process of drug discovery involves the identification of candidates, synthesis, characterization, screening, and assays for therapeutic efficacy. Once a compound has shown its value in tests, a company will begin the process of drug development prior to clinical trials</span></li>
<li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical_trial" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #027ee7; text-decoration: underline;" title="Clinical Testing"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clinical Testing</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: This step allows a company to test the drug for safety and adverse reactions. These trials can take place only after satisfactory information has been gathered on the quality of the non-clinical safety, and Health Authority/Ethics Committee approval is granted in the country where the trial is taking place. Clinical trials are expensive, and a full series of tests may incur costs that cannot be borne by the company. Sometimes, an outsourced partner, such as a contract research organization (government, pharmaceutical or biotechnology company), will step in to pay for those trials.</span></li>
<li><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=14149751" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #027ee7; text-decoration: underline;" title="Patent"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Patent</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: The company and its partners then seek a patent that provides exclusive right to sell the drug as long as the patent is in effect. When that patent nears expiration, other manufacturers can apply to the FDA for permission to make and sell generic versions of the drug. Over the next decades, about 120 brand-name prescription drugs will lose their market exclusivity.</span></li>
<li><a href="http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/Surveillance/DrugMarketingAdvertisingandCommunications/ucm209384.htm" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #027ee7; text-decoration: underline;" title="Marketing and Promotion"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marketing and Promotion</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">: Nationwide, and sometimes global, marketing and promotion for brand-name drugs is expensive. Additionally, drug companies and manufacturers must follow strict protocol in marketing and promoting drugs, according to the FDA. This government agency also helps health care providers recognize misleading prescription drug promotion and provide them with an easy way to report this activity to the agency.</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Trademark laws do not allow the generic drugs to look exactly like the brand-name preparation, but the active ingredients must be the same in both preparations, ensuring that both have the same medicinal effects.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/armymedicine/7026755311/" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #027ee7; text-decoration: underline;"><img alt="Pharmacist" class="alignright size-full wp-image-33" height="150" src="http://pharmacytechnicianonlineschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/Pharmacist.jpg" style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; border-width: initial; display: inline; float: right; margin-bottom: 2px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 4px; padding-left: 4px; padding-right: 4px; padding-top: 4px;" title="Pharmacist" width="150" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Generally, most insurance companies are not concerned with the type of medication you are taking or how much it costs. As long as you cover your deductible and are getting the health care you need, the insurance plan should agree with your health coverage. You probably need to check your health insurance coverage to make sure that your insurance covers medications as well as treatment outside medicines before you make any decisions about optional health care or before you become seriously ill. Sometimes, insurance companies do not cover preexisting conditions.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some state governments now promote generic medicines. This obviously reduces the budgetary expenditure. One important way to control costs is by negotiating with drug manufacturers for rebates. Another way to reduce costs is by managing enrollees’ use of prescription drugs. By using differences in co-payments and other methods, plans can encourage enrollees to switch from brand-name drugs to their less expensive generic equivalents. This practice is known as generic substitution.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The FDA recognizes this substitution practice, and condones it as long as the doctor writes that a substitution is appropriate on the prescription. A pharmacist, however, can make a substitution based upon the </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations. </span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Substitution by the pharmacist, may not hold good if patient develops a complication following substitution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Generics/ Brand Generics pass on close to 800% margin to the retailer, while the price may be just cheaper by 40%<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3081449/table/T1/" target="_blank"> (click here for info)</a> or check table:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Example: Injection Meropenem: Meromac -branded MRP is Rs 871, Merofit- Brand Generic: Rs 2494. The hospital supply rate for both are around Rs 750. </span></h4>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://drvsacharya.blogspot.in/2009/02/blackmail-journalism.html" target="_blank"><b>Pub going girls attacked in Mangalore:</b> </a></span>cameramen from Media had the info about the time and place of attack...still they chose to "cover" the event, rather than protecting the modesty of the girls...<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><a href="http://udupipressvictim.wordpress.com/2006/07/05/umesh-marpallys-nude-photo-history-how-insensitive-photography-caused-communal-tension-in-udupi-for-months/" target="_blank">Hapless cow trader Hajabba got stripped naked by an angry mob....</a></span></b>Press photographer from Udupi chose to click him naked, rather than cover him with clothes...while his associate was shining the headlight from the bike, for a "better" capture...<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><b>This time round, media has found a new breaking news in the orchestrated by media molestation of an innocent girl in Guwahati, Assam!</b></span><br />
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a good writeup by Karan Singh Tyagi, Courtesy: The Hindu<br />
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I remember watching “<i style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The Death of Kevin Carter: Casualty of the Bang Bang Club</i>,” an American documentary about the suicide of South African photojournalist Kevin Carter, at a film festival organised by my law school in 2010. The documentary that was nominated for the Academy Awards depicts the gut-wrenching tale of Carter’s enduring depression by the carnage he witnessed as a photographer in warzones.</div>
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In 1993, Carter took a trip to Sudan. There he saw a little girl, bent over with hunger and dehydration, eyed by a nearby vulture. Careful not to disturb the vulture, he waited for 20 minutes until the vulture was close enough, positioned himself for the best possible image, fixed his frame and shot.</div>
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The photo won him the 1994 Pulitzer Prize. At a conference, he was asked what happened to the girl. He didn’t know. Didn’t he do anything to help her? No. Carter came under heavy criticism for just photographing — and not helping — the little girl. Two years later, heavily disturbed by the incident, Carter committed suicide.</div>
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The documentary poses a moral dilemma. I was left asking myself — how many journalists would frighten away the vulture and help the child? How many would take the photograph? Witnessing the outrage against the journalist who shot the Guwahati molestation video, my mind wandered back to Kevin Carter. Should journalists put the camera down and help or should they remain objective observers?</div>
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Despite an increasing concern that many, including the Chief Minister of Assam, have expressed about the ethical obligation of the Guwahati journalist, there are others who remain extremely sceptical. Mr. Raghu Rai, India’s noted photojournalist, expressed solidarity for the journalist by commenting that a journalist’s only job is to report the story. He said that professionally speaking, journalists have to cover such things, no matter how distasteful.</div>
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Strong arguments can be made in support of Mr. Rai’s position. Journalism perhaps requires a certain clinical detachment from and disregard for some of the ethical niceties and sensitivities of everyday life. Moreover, journalism often requires rushed thinking and action, leaving little time for deep reflection. Further, by taking the video of the girl, that communicated an utter state of horror and despair, the journalist made a larger comment about the situation of women in India and helped promote the important debate on safety of women in our cities.</div>
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Interestingly, many years ago, Martin Luther King gave similar advice to a photographer from <i style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Life</i> Magazine, who on seeing small children being shoved to the ground by policemen, stopped taking pictures and went to their aid. Ron F. Smith’s book on journalism and ethics mentions King’s statement to the photographer — “The world doesn’t know this happened, because you didn’t photograph it. I’m not being cold-blooded about it, but it is so much more important for you to take a picture of us getting beaten up than for you to be another person joining in the fray.”</div>
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So, what does the outrage against the Guwahati journalist tell us? Is it merely a case of people, far away from danger, from their living rooms, claiming the position of superiority? Or is it necessary for media persons to reflect upon this incident to enable them to clarify their intuitions, concepts and beliefs regarding journalistic and media practices?</div>
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On a basic level, the entire incident raises the bigger question of motivation behind telling a story. Here, I make the normative claim (and I am no journalist) that a journalist’s motivation should always be to tell the story at a deeper level than what has actually happened. The guiding force behind reporting facts should be to focus on the deeper reasons behind the issue.</div>
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Was the manner in which the girl’s private grief, impotence, and despair put on display for all viewers, without her consent and regardless of any sympathy in consonance with this deeper motivation? In the very act of deploring the tragedy, the underlying motivation behind the Guwahati video seems to be an appalling curiosity and morbid delight in the tragedies of others. And, therein lies the problem. In fact, such depiction is routine in the media. We have seen in the past journalists asking someone whose friends or parents have been killed in a plane crash “how they feel”!</div>
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Although most journalists would consider it to be their professional duty to catch such events on tape and later put them up for display, journalistic professionalism need not come apart from ethical responsibility. As Oakley and Cocking claimed in regard to virtue ethics and professional roles, “goodness is prior to rightness” — (<i style="outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Oakley, J. & Cocking, D. (2001), Virtue ethics and professional roles</i>). Rightness, properly understood, can only be derivative of goodness, insofar as what is right must be based on what is valuable in regard to certain notions of the good.</div>
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Similarly, journalistic rightness needs to be understood in the larger context of the role the media plays in our society. Given that the news media's function, at least in part, is to seek out and expose wrongdoing, it had better not be guilty of the very same sins it exposes in others if it is to avoid the charge of hypocrisy. That is, journalists and the news media must themselves consistently aim to respect the very same ethical standards of behaviour that they demand others should adhere to. A proportionate response in the Guwahati case would have been to focus only on the wrongdoer’s faces in the video, and try to protect the girl by either volunteering assistance or immediately informing the police.</div>
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I am not denying that probably many critics of media practices (including me) may possess only a superficial grasp of the realities of journalistic and media practices. Hence media criticism and ethical debate tends to contradict the complex cases and dilemmas that actually arise. But this is not to deny the point and purpose of critical reflection. Undoubtedly, it is the job of the journalists to depict and report facts as they happen. But, in doing so, they should not lose sight of the bigger question — what is their investment as human beings? Shouldn’t journalists be defined by who they are intrinsically, rather than what they do?</div>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-36233049230931664552012-05-16T07:12:00.001-07:002012-05-16T07:12:20.252-07:00Death in Hospital, brings in money for "negotiators": Part II<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i>Now the "negotiator" brigade, along with ever ready Media persons attacks "Srinivasa Hospital, Mukka-Mangalore"</i></h2>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When a critically ill patient dies after best possible treatment by the hospital, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">a team of self proclaimed "social activists" are alerted by some hospital employees/ patients relatives </span>(obviously for a tip). </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then mediamen are "invited" to the hospital.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> In the media presence "negotiators" make a grand entry,</span>take up the charge of "reducing" the hospital charges for a fee from the patients relatives.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Hospital administrators are then threatened to waive the bill</span> (again the negotiators make money here!)...if hospital authorities remain firm with their decision, they face vandalism at the hospital, negative publicity over media! The booty is shared by the “informants”, “mediamen” and “negotiators”…</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: cyan;">Please do not make the healthcare personnel insensitive by repeated publication of such news, which indirectly is an advertisement for "negotiators".</span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">With due respect to the judiciary, Police & the media: each should develop respect for each other. Media & Judiciary always ridicule the men in uniform- the Police. At the times like these how do you expect them to be sympathetic to you? More important point to remember: common man might stay away from courts/lawyers/ police...for his needs, he may straightaway approach the "mediators" to settle things out of the court...that will spell doom for your profession!</span></div><!--EndFragment--> </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-6939902482494603312012-02-18T21:30:00.000-08:002012-02-18T21:30:14.810-08:00VSA 1939 - 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Lone voice, whether fighting for justice or fighting for the media restraint...<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKZMZ3sjpwsTUMHtW589FYEi1IcKHeO22Vu71T7JkocW1-oOpFPQzFUl6nzvNSGzR_T7kcT1sSJve0IUfnipTg4r-h2Uw2U_KGTieEY0oEc-_JPJwhaChT5AzOHyzZhvYyeONSy-4BIkK-/s1600/ph04.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKZMZ3sjpwsTUMHtW589FYEi1IcKHeO22Vu71T7JkocW1-oOpFPQzFUl6nzvNSGzR_T7kcT1sSJve0IUfnipTg4r-h2Uw2U_KGTieEY0oEc-_JPJwhaChT5AzOHyzZhvYyeONSy-4BIkK-/s640/ph04.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>May his work and ideals be an inspiration for us...</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-41120434467044634062012-02-09T16:42:00.000-08:002012-02-10T06:47:44.236-08:00TV channels ‘stay in the loop'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx7ZBcLEeaE9du_r2tgPtQrLcj_fmdVCfGc7PR77-4gK-OvLuduWIxXsPYY8IEMGuRm_qy0JNr2_3tT8MofYAx9RI2CabIKHzb_a87NvHd07dxxqYrcaD8ylSE0TNeoEmBbq3GbXnZMp0p/s1600/tv9+suvarna.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx7ZBcLEeaE9du_r2tgPtQrLcj_fmdVCfGc7PR77-4gK-OvLuduWIxXsPYY8IEMGuRm_qy0JNr2_3tT8MofYAx9RI2CabIKHzb_a87NvHd07dxxqYrcaD8ylSE0TNeoEmBbq3GbXnZMp0p/s320/tv9+suvarna.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV6qZ2CJxFGPGKXnGm7NcxJW13UFaenbIVUGWMh0T8cuNwWEpbnGwXX7zlVMAJSWXb8sK-RXB1XwgKHSDrzjeh5zzxcvWy5NLERR8LRd96Gr_K4q6JCaSWnBZ2R_iYQ7Ibx36GHQM0Wz2A/s1600/LAKSHMAN_SAVADI_918206f.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgV6qZ2CJxFGPGKXnGm7NcxJW13UFaenbIVUGWMh0T8cuNwWEpbnGwXX7zlVMAJSWXb8sK-RXB1XwgKHSDrzjeh5zzxcvWy5NLERR8LRd96Gr_K4q6JCaSWnBZ2R_iYQ7Ibx36GHQM0Wz2A/s320/LAKSHMAN_SAVADI_918206f.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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<div class="body" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #7f7f7f; font-size: 18px; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/karnataka/article2874447.ece" target="_blank">DEEPA KURUP/thehindu</a></span></div><div class="body" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><b>The irony was unmistakable on news television across regional Kannada channels on Tuesday evening.</b></div><div class="body" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">For, while news anchors pontificated on the “immoral” and “shameless” act of two ministers caught “enjoying” pornography on their small mobile screens, their channels aired, in a loop for at least five hours, close-up visuals of the video without so much as pixellating even sections of them.</span></b></div><div class="body" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The emphasis appeared to be more on the morality of watching porn, rather than the offense of watching these visuals in the Legislative Assembly where using mobile phones, even reading newspapers for that matter, is prohibited. Add to this tenor, the background score: at least two channels decided that images alone cannot titillate, and played music that appeared to be borrowed from a late-night soft porn movie segment.</div><div class="body" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">So for hours on Tuesday evening, channels aired “fresh” — and of course, all “exclusive” — visuals, alternating between the two videos, one a soft porn video that appeared to be a strip tease, and the other, explicit pornographic images of a sexual act. </span>Having made their point, some channels did blur the footage, but only after a good three hours. Notably, national television channels, which picked up the story from regional channels, blurred the footage right from the start.</div><div class="body" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Indeed, the channels did need to air these visuals to establish proof of content. But once the evidence had been established, did they go too far? For, the channels did not stop here. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">At least two leading channels, “traced the source” of the video (showing a woman in a ‘striptease’), downloaded it and played it in a loop. This footage — unlike the mobile screen shots from the assembly — occupied the entire TV screen, revealing the woman’s identity. This was a clear violation of her privacy.</span></div><div class="body" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">The pretext was that the footage was being played to refute Minister Laxman Savadi's contention that he was trying to understand what a “rave party” was, or watching footage of exploitation in Iran or Egypt. This downloaded footage was aired for at least two hours, late into early hours of the morning.</div><div class="body" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;"><b>Line crossed?</b></div><div class="body" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">While channels can argue that it was in “public interest” and not with ‘intent to titilate’ -- making them not culpable -- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">did they cross a line by telecasting the downloaded video?</span> In the second case, where close-up shots of the woman were aired, there is a violation of privacy, says Pranesh Prakash, legal expert. He points out that Courts have upheld an individual's right to privacy, barring only material in public domain or in public interest.</div><div class="body" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">While there are several broadcasters; rules, most of which deal with self regulation, airing this footage indeed violates the Cable TV Act's programme code. The code prohibits content that “denigrates women through the depiction in any manner of the figure of a women, her form or body ... that is indecent, or derogatory to women”.</div><div class="body" style="margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Media commentator, Sevanti Ninan, says, “That they showed footage without pixellating it, footage violated the Cable Act. Previously, too, for instance, in the telecast of the Swami Nityananda sex scandal video, the tape was not blurred and it is currently enshrined on YouTube, as this one doubtless will be.”</div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-1087424719865820932011-11-12T06:34:00.000-08:002011-11-12T06:34:16.237-08:00Death in hospital brings in money for “negotiators”<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCMzpDfBRwgqT8mS_W3ir5ucvtIAnq85KvRcUzfcsrdPrXveOXEMlSWPnzbsN4mkCTgoVLhSAPkYKGlCzGUx6aFacHsKlVjb37E8n54evWiam8lJZQLFal1C-HKqLFzeD6ElH6rscd7fd/s1600/patient+death.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisCMzpDfBRwgqT8mS_W3ir5ucvtIAnq85KvRcUzfcsrdPrXveOXEMlSWPnzbsN4mkCTgoVLhSAPkYKGlCzGUx6aFacHsKlVjb37E8n54evWiam8lJZQLFal1C-HKqLFzeD6ElH6rscd7fd/s400/patient+death.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><!--StartFragment--> <br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When a critically ill patient dies after best possible treatment by the hospital, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">a team of self proclaimed "social activists" are alerted by some hospital employees/ patients relatives </span>(obviously for a tip). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then mediamen are "invited" to the hospital.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> In the media presence "negotiators" make a grand entry,</span> take up the charge of "reducing" the hospital charges for a fee from the patients relatives. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Hospital administrators are then threatened to waive the bill</span> (again the negotiators make money here!)...if hospital authorities remain firm with their decision, they face vandalism at the hospital, negative publicity over media! The booty is shared by the “informants”, “mediamen” and “negotiators”…</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This trend would result in hospitals insisting on deposit money upon arrival of the patient...precious lives may be lost in the waiting period. If such incidents continue, some of the hospitals may refuse to admit the patient in serious cases fearing chaos.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please do not make the healthcare personnel insensitive by repeated publication of such news, which indirectly is an advertisement for "negotiators".</span></div><!--EndFragment--> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-67490796156348310262011-11-08T06:42:00.000-08:002011-11-08T06:48:10.370-08:00Self Restraint by the Media: a welcome development<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizPSNaKlySDABbNXqxHn3FwcLfeh4KKr2-3xa8pVvgeYy-yhVIZBSakvqWITgTdHNUHihIefnY7gDMN0M3q9dIKCsNXQ6xTwAHnj0NX1HAWg8meJJb64Qtmh1P4PHdzuYm9egd4UwYNXls/s1600/Aishwarya-Rai-55-500x375.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizPSNaKlySDABbNXqxHn3FwcLfeh4KKr2-3xa8pVvgeYy-yhVIZBSakvqWITgTdHNUHihIefnY7gDMN0M3q9dIKCsNXQ6xTwAHnj0NX1HAWg8meJJb64Qtmh1P4PHdzuYm9egd4UwYNXls/s320/Aishwarya-Rai-55-500x375.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Finally...much awaited self restraint by the media houses comes into force...how the news channels and media houses respond to it, adhere to the guidelines? Wait & Watch!</i></span><br />
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margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">TV channels will 'behave'</span></h1></span><span class="arttle" style="display: block; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 36px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 30px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><h1 style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><em>An astonishing <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/For-Aishwarya-Rais-baby-TV-channels-will-behave/articleshow/10651249.cms">(as per TOI report)</a> </em></span></span></h1></span><span class="arttle" style="display: block; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 36px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 30px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><h1 style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><em>guideline agreed upon by all news channels </em></span></span></h1></span><span class="arttle" style="display: block; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 36px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 30px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><h1 style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; 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padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><h1 style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">» No pre-coverage of the event.<br />
» Story of the birth of the baby to run only after, and on the basis of, official announcement.<br />
» Story not to run on breaking news band.<br />
» <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">No camera or OB vans at hospital or any other location (like the Bachchans' homes Pratiksha or Jalsa) related to the story. </span><br />
» Channels will only go for photo-op or press conference if invited.<br />
» Channels will not carry any MMS or photo of the child. We can carry if issued by the family<br />
» No astrology show to be done on this issue.<br />
» No 11.11.11 astro shows to be done.<br />
» The duration of story to be around a minute/ninety seconds.<br />
» <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">Obviously, unauthorized entry into hospital not permitted. </span></span></em></span></span></h1></span><span class="arttle" style="display: block; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 36px; font-weight: lighter; line-height: 30px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><h1 style="display: inline; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 28px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Singapore, May 28 (PTI): Tamil superstar Rajinikanth has been admitted to Singapore's top hospital, the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, according to medical sources.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The 61-year-old actor arrived here today with his wife and two daughters after he was discharged from a Chennai hospital where he spent two weeks being treated for respiratory problems.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He is now at the Mount Elizabeth centre which is considered one of the best hospitals in Asia. <b>However the hospital has refused to comment on Rajinikanth's health saying that it was not obliged to disclose the identity of its patients when they request complete privacy</b></span><b>.</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"><b>Celebrities and even common man has no privacy at Indian hospitals.</b></span> Details of admission, ailment, medication used, treatment done are routinely divulged to the lay press. Even photography of patients inside private areas/ ultra clean zones (!) of hospital are routinely permitted. <b>Publicity hungry hospitals, doctors, ignorant mediamen, mediamen with "freedom of the press" are to be blamed for this menace. </b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b></b>However good the medical care may be, if it lacks respect for patients dignity & privacy, it has no meaning. A major hospital in New Delhi lost its JCI certification for divulging a patients lab report...A bangalore hospitals divulges MRI report of a film star...CNN IBN flashes the MRI images of Gautam Gambhirs shoulder...now it is the turn of Rajinikanth...fearing invasion of privacy, he has chosen Mt Elizabeth Hospital, Singapore. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Shame on Indian healthcare system...which can`t ensure a basic right of the patient...that is Privacy.</span></b></span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-2137210766393683822010-10-31T19:32:00.000-07:002010-11-01T00:02:52.782-07:00Indian Media: an accessory for Crime?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaH0QPuiVWpBWIQenEAdYhkyuQ-9kKyr1AvrP8zkQKhnbWyyf8HNDjhpj6lrA5ErSn0IZqruuxFxkyUvkm5KOBgiKKnFA3075U1IROljl5LkFhXd9s8iFAbqdfmkmCYIgr-hBN4S6w_UMt/s1600/roy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaH0QPuiVWpBWIQenEAdYhkyuQ-9kKyr1AvrP8zkQKhnbWyyf8HNDjhpj6lrA5ErSn0IZqruuxFxkyUvkm5KOBgiKKnFA3075U1IROljl5LkFhXd9s8iFAbqdfmkmCYIgr-hBN4S6w_UMt/s200/roy.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; color: #000099; font-weight: 800; line-height: 15px;"><a href="http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/01/stories/2010110163191600.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Something for the media to think about</span></a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000099;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-weight: 800; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>What is the nature of the agreement between these sections of the media and mobs and criminals in search of spectacle?</b> Does the media which positions itself at the ‘scene' in advance have a guarantee that the attacks and demonstrations will be non-violent? What happens if there is criminal trespass (as there was today) or even something worse? <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Does the media then become accessory to the crime? This question is important, given that some TV channels and newspapers are in the process of brazenly inciting mob anger against me.</span></b> In the race for sensationalism the line between reporting news and manufacturing news is becoming blurred. So what if a few people have to be sacrificed at the altar of TRP ratings? <b>So, while the Government is showing a degree of maturity, are sections of the media and the infrastructure of democracy being rented out to those who believe in mob justice? </b> But why are sections of the mainstream media doing the same? Is a writer with unpopular views more dangerous than a suspect in a bomb blast? <b>Or is it a question of ideological alignment?</b></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 15px;">When a similar event happens in Mangalore, likes of Arundhati Roy cried hoarse on Women`s rights, Talibalization etc., </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">None of the intellectuals protested against the media - an associate in the crime! </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">(instead of informing police and avoiding a "spectacle" local media chose to "encash" on "pub attack" by selling the "precious footage" and photos to national/international media houses)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; line-height: 15px;"><b>Crime in Mangalore: Media is doing its job as per "freedom of the press"</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;">I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: yellow;"> have been advocating all the while on privacy and individual rights. Intellectuals like Arundhati Roy wake up, only when they become targets!</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-43993295691762123312010-05-24T18:12:00.000-07:002010-05-24T18:13:15.373-07:00Air crash: a question for media<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxLkHUPOH2uj7X8fx9IJuqs7W9V0aci6Ef-383_o0G-iOEvk8gI34k_uvmcCJcVvOFZwy3AA-_vw98gS3XgH8qRLT5smrubIYjycZKEG5C7lX1r1xaRDxHYPInnF8ZftbmG44so_xSlMej/s1600/air.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxLkHUPOH2uj7X8fx9IJuqs7W9V0aci6Ef-383_o0G-iOEvk8gI34k_uvmcCJcVvOFZwy3AA-_vw98gS3XgH8qRLT5smrubIYjycZKEG5C7lX1r1xaRDxHYPInnF8ZftbmG44so_xSlMej/s320/air.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Courtesy of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=56305152281&topic=16141" style="color: #004477; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: underline;">Uday Rodrigues</a>/ <a href="http://mediamirchi.wordpress.com/2010/05/24/air-crash-a-question-for-media/#comment-478">Mediamirchi</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">MANGALORE is still in the shock of Air India Air crash in Mangalore. It is the most horrific incident happened in Mangalore as well as the biggest tragedy in Indian aviation history. The entire world stood and expressed their sympathy & condolences on all of the families who lost their beloved ones and prayed for the departed soul. The incident is still alive as the reason for this tragedy yet known & the investigation is in progress. The devastating air crash in Mangalore has raised many issues on AI, runway & the airport. I would like to raise the issue of publishing photographs of dead bodies in the print and virtual front pages of most major news papers & the online websites.<br />
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I think the media has got something very important to consider when deciding what photographs to publish. Publishing the photographs that are so grotesque that it's almost disrespectful to the person viewing the photograph may disturb the week hearted people. Image of carrying the body of an injured/dead baby seriously devastating, especially to someone who is young, woman or weak. Yet, I would assume that the photographer’s purpose in taking the picture is to show how completely devastating this event was but its is seriously awful to view. One of my friend who is working for the medical field, she expressed her views like this “We all are so close to this incident and the photographs still come to my mind, though I am a medical professional, I would definitely can’t see such painful scenes…huhhh!!’ One of my other friend said that he can’t see the local news papers in Mangalore, it gives pain. I am personally, not visiting the online news websites which I usually visit since i saw some photographs. Some people even went ahead & uploaded photographs of dead bodies in Facebook which they shot on the spot of the incident.<br />
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Now here are some possible questions to consider.<br />
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1. What purpose would you have in showing such images?<br />
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2. What consequences do you foresee from depicting such images?<br />
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3. What will it want and/or need to see to understand such death?<br />
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4. What impact will images of death have on the viewers?<br />
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5. Will such pictures help the viewers understand the truth(s) of this tragedy?<br />
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6. Will the images help to make the people more knowledgeable about this horrific incident?<br />
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7. Just imagine, if any of your loving person was in that flight, would you like to show his/her body into pieces?<br />
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I remember the tragic death of AP Chief Minister YSR; the photographs were available but never published in any TV channels. Respecting the dead is very much appreciated in the western media and the western world . For all the years that American and British soldiers have died in what many now accept was an illegitimate war in Iraq, I have never seen a picture of blown up bodies or pieces of those soldiers in the western media as an attempt to show the world how gruesome the war has been.<br />
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Local media in Mangalore has always done a great job. It may the church attack, pub attack and now the worst tragedy of air crash. But I do strongly feel, publishing the photographs of dead bodies was not a good idea or its like lack of respect for dead people and their families. News organizations should decide about showing images of death will help or hinder the public understanding of this tragedy or it will make them to feel more horrific. I do feel they should avoid publishing, or refuse to show, such images.<br />
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These are my views. You agree with me or do not agree, please don’t forget to leave your honest comments here. We can bring it to the attention of our local media and there can be a change. I thank some of my friends who supported me to write this short article. God bless Mangalore.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-13692809750815909332010-02-23T16:06:00.000-08:002010-02-23T16:10:31.390-08:00Ban entry of Media/ Politicians into hospitals during mass casualty management!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: auto;"><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Fire at Bangalore's Carlton Towers:</span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 32pt;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial;">Bangalore, Feb 23: A massive fire has hit the third floor of the Carlton Towers in Bangalore, killing three and trapping many office goers around the peak office hours this evening.<span style="color: #262626;"> At least five people may have died in the Carlton Towers since they jumped out from the fifth and sixth floors of their office building in Bangalore on Tuesday. Survivors were treated at Manipal Hospita</span></span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial;">l</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYqzVju3z1iTBoCjdmdbug6f-GQZaqWbA-Dvn2TDdBTeqI546dco0vWvoinzAVzbzmC8IURJlDt78LRZ5Xj9dGao8cd3OzsZRRrsYOU5M5KXirFxD6t4Z88DTdtlbtA4DFOSo2jp4RQGTS/s1600-h/Slide2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYqzVju3z1iTBoCjdmdbug6f-GQZaqWbA-Dvn2TDdBTeqI546dco0vWvoinzAVzbzmC8IURJlDt78LRZ5Xj9dGao8cd3OzsZRRrsYOU5M5KXirFxD6t4Z88DTdtlbtA4DFOSo2jp4RQGTS/s200/Slide2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24pt;">Mediamen barge into the hospital: </span></b><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16pt;">minutes after the first patient was wheeled into the Manipal Hospital, harassment by mediamen started...they barged into no entry/ no photography zones of the hospital, started photographing/ videographing hapless victims, who were still under shock...They even tresspassed into sterile areas like Emergency ward/ ICU and even wards! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 21px;"><br />
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<li><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where is Justice Nayak, who is supposed to guard the Human Rights? </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is well known that most muslim countries ban women from getting photo/ videographed...maybe these girls were shocked to see video cameras, so they must have tried to flee the scene...Later, the media was called to the police station too...where is the right to privacy? </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When underworld goons are arrested police provide them the luxury of black face masks...but hapless women caught in the middle of the night paraded in front of cameras...</span></b></li>
<li><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Is it not moral policing by Media?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How many drunken brawls by men get reported like this?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...the same media houses which cried foul when pubs were raided last year, when the very same pink cheddy gangs which called for Pub Bharo...are now silent! (just because of the alleged attack on the media by these girls?)</span></span></b></li>
<li><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank God, there was no one in the vicinity wearing any saffron clothes! </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Otherwise National Council for Women, Amnesty, Transparency..etc would have raised a hue and cry!</span></span></b></li>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia; font-size: 15px;">Jalandhar: A teenager college student girl committed suicide by jumping before a train on Domoria Bridge on Thursday evening after she was reportedly photographed by a few photo journalists when she was accosted by police at a naka while she accompanied a boy in a car which had hit another car.</span></div>
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It seemed to be a case of over enthusiasm of police and photojournalists back firing as the naka was laid to check eve teasing and in the last few days Traffic police inspector Balwinder Kaur's Nakas and her on the spot punishment to eve-teasers had been making almost daily news and providing good photo opportunity to jurnos.<a href="http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-08-31/ludhiana/33520196_1_police-inspector-domoria-bridge-government-railway-police" target="_blank"> (TOI)</a></div>
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Courtesy: VijayaKarnataka/MediamirchiUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-27286316547134674572010-02-15T16:27:00.000-08:002010-02-15T16:42:39.389-08:00Terrorists get live coverage, Thanks to the Media<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4wJ9uJM8DpJ2-p1s1h7Vfx6TJfm15TkhCG8Gg7IHM5kwSLloVtZg0GROGeXstrcUfP8gZHt3StYXcc4gjqs8MjN46yUFpmd6IEaUsqqZKoz2_gSIpe1mNEYGFpav2BelRxqvPsItDwyQK/s1600-h/2010021460471001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4wJ9uJM8DpJ2-p1s1h7Vfx6TJfm15TkhCG8Gg7IHM5kwSLloVtZg0GROGeXstrcUfP8gZHt3StYXcc4gjqs8MjN46yUFpmd6IEaUsqqZKoz2_gSIpe1mNEYGFpav2BelRxqvPsItDwyQK/s320/2010021460471001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>This ghastly photo taken at a Trauma Center was <a href="http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/14/stories/2010021460471000.htm">published in The Hindu.</a> The media has no regard for any privacy/ ethics. Where was the need to publish such gory image? What about the invasion of privacy? Loss of dignity?</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">A day may not be far when terror groups in the guise of Mediamen, enter hospitals, cause secondary bomb blasts in the hospitals! <a href="http://drvsacharya.blogspot.com/2008/12/journalist-terrorist.html">(To Read more click here)</a></span></i></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #fa8761;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Don't Talk to Blast Victims, Pune Police Chief to Media</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pune, Feb 14:</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The media should keep away from hospitals in Pune where victims of the eatery blast are recuperating, the city police chief warned Sunday. "This is not just a request, it is our official direction," he said.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Police Commissioner Satyapal Singh said at a press conference here that the media should not interview any blast victim, including those at hospitals.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I want to appeal and request media persons not to go to hospitals where the injured are admitted or talk to them about the incident. This is against national interest.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It is not just a request, it is also our official direction. Hospitals have also been directed to not allow anyone in the hospitals. Anyone violating this would have to face the consequences," Singh told reporters.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nine people, including two foreign nationals were killed, while 60 people (48 Indians and 12 foreign nationals) were injured in the blast at the German Bakery Saturday evening.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While 19 of the injured have been discharged from hospitals, 41 are still undergoing treatment, Singh said.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But, as usual mediamen have already barged into the hospital, photographing, videographing hapless victims of terror bomb blast...so the terrorists get a live coverage of victims of their terror attack...thanks to the "terror friendly media" ! </span></i></b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">It is also a known phenomenon that Mediamen gate crash/ enter important venues without any pass/ identity card. Hence it becomes important to keep in mind the possibility of terrorist posing as a Journalist...especially when they are with electronic gadegets like cameras- which can easily conceal weapons/ explosives!</span></span></i></b></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-44381285449986865432010-01-12T16:56:00.000-08:002010-01-13T06:14:20.782-08:00Privacy at Stake at Bangalore resorts?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmZ9XfFmymGzockCl-tLG-qs7RHrP90suSJGaIUfFDfjNjD411sLD4cdSTNKCBUSpzVtdwK-FhCsNIgebD_CzJD923awusYO5Q32kX-JS8bSHJqO8SdFUMjOtI3LdBR-XUlvShcfq9GqpR/s1600-h/vika.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmZ9XfFmymGzockCl-tLG-qs7RHrP90suSJGaIUfFDfjNjD411sLD4cdSTNKCBUSpzVtdwK-FhCsNIgebD_CzJD923awusYO5Q32kX-JS8bSHJqO8SdFUMjOtI3LdBR-XUlvShcfq9GqpR/s400/vika.jpg" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px;">A waiter at Golden Palms Spa & Hotel tries to sell photos of a private meeting to the media houses! Scary but true!</span><br />
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</div><div>Today it is just a few photos of a private meeting, tomorrow it could be the video recording of your private moments spent at the resort & SPA?<br />
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</div><div><i><b>When contacted, the management of the resort is callous about this serious breach of privacy...or are they hand in glove with their employees? Or is it an official policy to record guests activities??</b></i><br />
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</div><span style="color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: grey; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-26843093032766557572009-11-09T16:48:00.000-08:002009-11-12T06:17:57.327-08:00Illegal photo/videography, Tresspassing: journalist attacked!<strong>Journalists, who do not follow any code of ethics, barged into the courtroom in Bangalore high court. As usual while indulging in an alleged unauthorized videography through mobile phone, he was attacked by enraged lawyers...</strong><br />
(CNN IBN is known to show mobile videos on its prime news...when former CM Kumaraswamy was undergoing treatment at Jayadeva, they had beamed the mobile video images of the former CM at the entrance of an operation theater)<br />
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</div><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Paradox:</span></strong> <strong><em>When jounrlists tresspassed into an emergency ward at Kasturba Hospital, Manipal and photographed hapless patients, the doctor on duty had objected. The incident was blown out of proportion by the media as "attack on freedom of the press"...and the clever lawyers of Udupi bailed out the journalists from the case...<span style="color: #990000;">Now, we have a situation, wherein the lawyers are upset over an alleged videography in the court hall...they could have filed a case of tresspassing/unauthorized videography...since they have so much faith in their own system, they have resorted to "direct punishment"!</span></em></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;">Win Win situation:</span></strong> <strong><em>for journalist...if he gets the video grab it is a breaking news, if he gets beaten in the process, it is a breaking news anyway!</em></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://mediamirchi.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/whether-this-reporter-was-following-ethics-yes-no/">Whether this reporter was following ethics?</a></span></strong>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2130252777937178180.post-23503336199037691302009-09-05T22:21:00.000-07:002009-09-05T22:21:37.248-07:00Televized Death: Live from a borewell<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU5MI_VMOPAwMk7419Qp2YEoS64hJOKWGS-bqqPNo9mEXK8kIcFVgf2IisORipY0DaJjr4fywNib_uRpmaWBVtffOyQFGsFJWxVPH3M9kY7niiAfuM-t5n1ETFP5MUw3RZWuAOHFHrD3Mq/s1600-h/televized+death.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" lk="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU5MI_VMOPAwMk7419Qp2YEoS64hJOKWGS-bqqPNo9mEXK8kIcFVgf2IisORipY0DaJjr4fywNib_uRpmaWBVtffOyQFGsFJWxVPH3M9kY7niiAfuM-t5n1ETFP5MUw3RZWuAOHFHrD3Mq/s400/televized+death.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0