How best to spread the word about medical malpractices? Nothing can be better perhaps than getting doctors to talk about them and educate people about what is right and wrong.
Dr Prakash Vinjamuri and Dr S.V. Kameswari, a husband and wife team, have been doing just that, focusing on the pernicious practice of performing hysterectomies when they aren’t really needed.
The practice has been rampant in erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, now Telangana. Working in rural areas, Vinjamuri and Kameswari came across an increasing number of women whose uteruses had been removed at a young age. As they probed. . .
