Dr. Aditya Seth

Surgeon by training, editor by mission — building the Bloomberg for India's doctors.

Four words saved one surgeon. The other paid ₹12 lakh.

Oct 19, 2026

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Four words saved one surgeon. The other paid ₹12 lakh.

A Hyderabad consumer commission ordered one orthopaedic surgeon to pay ₹12 lakh and cleared the second, in the same case, without hearing a single expert witness.

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Discharge summary left out half the operation

Oct 18, 2026

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Discharge summary left out half the operation

Consent covered both procedures. The discharge summary recorded only one. With no expert evidence on record, a Haryana commission called the surgery negligent.

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Four attempts gone. NMC just reopened the door, once.

Oct 17, 2026

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Four attempts gone. NMC just reopened the door, once.

Students admitted from 2019-20 onwards get a fifth attempt at the first professional exam, even if the four-year limit has already passed. Two groups get nothing.

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Oct 16, 2026

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Your signature is working without you

A National Medical Commission circular this week cleared doctors to authenticate lab reports from anywhere. A pathologist says some labs are printing names on reports nobody read.

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His anaesthetist refused. He operated anyway.

Oct 15, 2026

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His anaesthetist refused. He operated anyway.

An elective hernia repair in Surat was quoted to the family at fifteen minutes and ran past two hours. The patient died a week later. Ten years on, a consumer commission went through the file and faulted three documents.

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One line in the ward register. Two assistant professors suspended.

Oct 14, 2026

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One line in the ward register. Two assistant professors suspended.

A tube and cotton placed to stop postpartum bleeding stayed inside a woman in Kakinada for about fifteen days. The entry saying they were out was written by someone who had not removed them.

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He signed every document he was given. He could not read one of them.

Oct 13, 2026

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He signed every document he was given. He could not read one of them.

A building of two or three rooms, alone in a field in Etah district, was issuing eight health qualifications. Its chairman was a tea seller who could not read. The Supreme Court has now decided who does the checking from here.

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The hospital filed a police complaint to recover ₹79,786. It cost them the case.

Oct 12, 2026

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The hospital filed a police complaint to recover ₹79,786. It cost them the case.

A 70-year-old was told in writing that his share of a spinal surgery would be ₹4,500. What arrived instead were three bills in two days, none of them matching the estimate or each other.

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The ₹100 strip your patient buys for ₹800

Oct 11, 2026

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The ₹100 strip your patient buys for ₹800

India's drug pricing regulator has approved a 30% cap on trade margins for cancer medicines sitting outside price control. Which drugs it covers is decided on Wednesday.

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Sixteen hospital directors waited outside a police station until 10:30 at night

Oct 10, 2026

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Sixteen hospital directors waited outside a police station until 10:30 at night

A three-year-old died at a hospital in Nagpur. Within minutes a crowd was inside the ICU, and before the evening was out her body had left the building without a postmortem.

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20 kg in 40 days, and not one blood test

Oct 9, 2026

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20 kg in 40 days, and not one blood test

Clinics from South Delhi to Ludhiana are selling three-month Mounjaro packages timed to the wedding date. In Indian data, half the patients needed nine and a half months to lose a tenth of their weight.

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Delete the before-and-after before your first OPD

Oct 8, 2026

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Delete the before-and-after before your first OPD

NMC’s advertising code took effect the day it was signed. Testimonials, superlatives and per-lead agency contracts are out, and the ladder ends at three years off the register.

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Two men who were never doctors have life for a midnight caesarean.

Oct 7, 2026

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Two men who were never doctors have life for a midnight caesarean.

A 22-year-old went in for a normal delivery in Amroha. She was operated on at midnight, without consent, and died soon after. The verdict took nine years, and the bench did not stop at the two men in the dock.

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Oct 6, 2026

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Two men who were never doctors have life for a midnight caesarean.

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Four defences won. The fifth cost ₹3.2 lakh.

Oct 5, 2026

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Four defences won. The fifth cost ₹3.2 lakh.

A Kolkata consumer commission threw out four of five allegations against a surgeon. Nothing that happened in theatre was held against him. He still paid.

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Metformin just lost its place at the front of the queue

Oct 4, 2026

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Metformin just lost its place at the front of the queue

ADA and EASD released their new type 2 diabetes consensus in Milan on Friday. It asks for a gliflozin or a GLP-1 drug early — potentially on the day you make the diagnosis.

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Oct 3, 2026

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Cockroaches on the breast pump

A Bengaluru commission found a maternity hospital deficient on hygiene alone. No clinical error was alleged, nobody fell ill, and a ₹20 lakh claim came out at ₹60,000.

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Your registration number goes to a stranger’s living room.

Oct 2, 2026

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Your registration number goes to a stranger’s living room.

FAIMA has written to every registered doctor in India about on-demand doorstep platforms. It lists eleven safeguards that are missing. The first one decides whether the visit should happen at all.

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Ten times the chemist’s price, and the bench is asking about your ethics

Oct 1, 2026

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Ten times the chemist’s price, and the bench is asking about your ethics

A Supreme Court bench read a cancer drug’s two prices out loud on Tuesday, asked why any printed price should sit 16% above what the retailer paid, and then said the case is really about the doctors in the middle.

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Sep 30, 2026

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Nobody wrote down why the plan changed

A US-based doctor in India on personal business had a prolapsed disc operated on and left with a torn dura. A Hyderabad consumer commission has now ordered ₹20 lakh over what followed. It never held the tear against the surgeon.

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Sep 29, 2026

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They opened the wrong knee

A Lucknow family says the left knee was the one that needed surgery. On 11 September, they say, the right one was opened instead. The error was already made before anyone picked up a blade.

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AIIMS Jodhpur’s director was removed everywhere except the order.

Sep 28, 2026

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AIIMS Jodhpur’s director was removed everywhere except the order.

The Health Ministry’s answer to the strike runs to one page and three clauses. It sends Dr Puri to Delhi, hands the institute to Jammu’s director for no extra pay, and contains not one of the residents’ four demands.

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Your ICU has been out of compliance since Monday.

Sep 27, 2026

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Your ICU has been out of compliance since Monday.

The Supreme Court wrote a deadline next to every line of the ICU guidelines. Four of them said Immediate. No circular went out, and the clock started on 21 September.

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Sep 26, 2026

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A lunch break is now a formal demand.

FORDA has backed the AIIMS Jodhpur strike with seven demands. The residents filed eleven of their own. Day three, and the answer is still two committees.

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Four demands. The Director answered none.

Sep 25, 2026

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Four demands. The Director answered none.

A junior resident died on duty at AIIMS Jodhpur on 22 September. His colleagues are on indefinite strike. What came back was two committees.

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Four words saved one surgeon. The other paid ₹12 lakh.

Discharge summary left out half the operation

Four attempts gone. NMC just reopened the door, once.

Your signature is working without you

His anaesthetist refused. He operated anyway.

One line in the ward register. Two assistant professors suspended.

He signed every document he was given. He could not read one of them.

The hospital filed a police complaint to recover ₹79,786. It cost them the case.

The ₹100 strip your patient buys for ₹800

Sixteen hospital directors waited outside a police station until 10:30 at night

20 kg in 40 days, and not one blood test

Delete the before-and-after before your first OPD

Two men who were never doctors have life for a midnight caesarean.

Two men who were never doctors have life for a midnight caesarean.

Four defences won. The fifth cost ₹3.2 lakh.

Metformin just lost its place at the front of the queue

Cockroaches on the breast pump

Your registration number goes to a stranger’s living room.

Ten times the chemist’s price, and the bench is asking about your ethics

Nobody wrote down why the plan changed

They opened the wrong knee

AIIMS Jodhpur’s director was removed everywhere except the order.

Your ICU has been out of compliance since Monday.

A lunch break is now a formal demand.

Four demands. The Director answered none.

Four minutes tomorrow morning, and every morning after.

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