The Opinionated Scalpel: Sharp takes, cleaner cuts
The Consent That Wasn’t Given — And Perhaps Never Fully Can Be
There is a moment in medicine we rarely question. A patient signs a form. A doctor proceeds. And we call it informed consent. We have built an entire legal and ethical architecture around this moment. We treat it as the…
The Sky Has Fallen: Doctors Die Young
By Dr. Shishir Srivastav But for that mysteriously crooked one minute between soaring dreams and the Dreamliner’s dive, they would have been stitching wounds, fixing broken bones, performing CPR — and pouring hope into tragedy-stricken souls. But for that crooked…
