Comments on: Indian inventor doctor’s breakthrough http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2007/07/31/indian-inventor-doctors-breakthrough/ ...reason and emotion, shaken and stirred... Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:40:47 +0530 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mahendrap http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2007/07/31/indian-inventor-doctors-breakthrough/#comment-598 mahendrap Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:32:05 +0000 http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2007/07/31/indian-inventor-doctors-breakthrough/#comment-598 Rambodoc: thanks for the comments. I would think that the article appears poorly researched (or edited) because it is in a webzine intended for the general public. As long as there's no authenticity debate and given the fact that the device is already licensed to US companies for manufacturing - I'm happy! Thanks for the example of how low-cost innovative techniques are being used by Indian doctors. Rambodoc: thanks for the comments. I would think that the article appears poorly researched (or edited) because it is in a webzine intended for the general public. As long as there’s no authenticity debate and given the fact that the device is already licensed to US companies for manufacturing — I’m happy!

Thanks for the example of how low-cost innovative techniques are being used by Indian doctors.

]]> By: Rambodoc http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2007/07/31/indian-inventor-doctors-breakthrough/#comment-597 Rambodoc Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:02:12 +0000 http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2007/07/31/indian-inventor-doctors-breakthrough/#comment-597 Oh, and by the way, hysteroscopic procedures are a new class of endoscopic operations that use cameras and instruments placed inside the vagina and the uterus and not making any cuts on the bellies. Tumors, polyps and bleeding uterine lining can be removed without any significant trauma to the body. Oh, and by the way, hysteroscopic procedures are a new class of endoscopic operations that use cameras and instruments placed inside the vagina and the uterus and not making any cuts on the bellies. Tumors, polyps and bleeding uterine lining can be removed without any significant trauma to the body.

]]> By: Rambodoc http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2007/07/31/indian-inventor-doctors-breakthrough/#comment-596 Rambodoc Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:59:07 +0000 http://skeptic.skepticgeek.com/2007/07/31/indian-inventor-doctors-breakthrough/#comment-596 Mahendra, The linked article is a typically poorly researched and fleshed out product of the media. It does not even say in what operations the device is supposed to be used for and what <b>fluid</b> is being measured for pressures. After reading it a couple of times, I think it is an irrigating device used for hysteroscopic procedures that remove the lining of the uterus (called TCRE). I don't know from the article exactly in what way the device is a change from what is available, so wouldn't comment on that, but one thing to underline is this: Indian surgeons work under great stress and limitations, and cost issues plague most of us. In order to provide modern surgeries to poorer patients, they have improvised all the time and created low-cost devices that cost next to nothing. Let me just give you one simple example: in laparoscopic (key-hole) surgeries, organs are taken out of the keyholes using plastic bags (called endobags) that cost around $100-200 each. Indian surgeons use simple plastic bags or ziplocs and sterilise them, each costing exactly nothing to the patient. Thanks for the article! Mahendra,
The linked article is a typically poorly researched and fleshed out product of the media. It does not even say in what operations the device is supposed to be used for and what fluid is being measured for pressures. After reading it a couple of times, I think it is an irrigating device used for hysteroscopic procedures that remove the lining of the uterus (called TCRE). I don’t know from the article exactly in what way the device is a change from what is available, so wouldn’t comment on that, but one thing to underline is this:
Indian surgeons work under great stress and limitations, and cost issues plague most of us. In order to provide modern surgeries to poorer patients, they have improvised all the time and created low-cost devices that cost next to nothing. Let me just give you one simple example: in laparoscopic (key-hole) surgeries, organs are taken out of the keyholes using plastic bags (called endobags) that cost around $100–200 each. Indian surgeons use simple plastic bags or ziplocs and sterilise them, each costing exactly nothing to the patient.
Thanks for the article!

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