Dr.Ashwini Paranjpe

Topic:  Medical counseling redefined…..Way out of the maze!

A Mensa member and a final year MBBS student at Seth G.S. medical college and K.E.M. hospital, shwini Paranjpe has presented her research paper on Neurointerventional treatment at International Medical conferences held at Leiden , Amsterdam and at  Coimbatore, she bagged the Narotam Sekhsaria scholarship for 3 years in a row, state level basketball player, winner of state level surgical quiz, she was a part of the team representing India at World Youth Fest at Germany. After spending around 4 and a half year in and out of the wards at one of the busiest and prestigious hospitals in India, K.E.M. hospital, she tries to suggest a working solution to this problem at hand which could grow larger.The right to Information act is in, but how do we exercise the right?

In this information age, in spite of excessive outsourcing of information, its paradoxical how the patients are miles down the information road..

There is no dearth of information available , the pathos is that it is a pure chaos.! How do we find the right direction in this maze?

Streamlining of this  information could help to bring the two ends closer and here comes the role of ‘medical counseling’, either in person by a professional or by creating an excellent database by the treating physician/doctor himself. This could really help the patients make a truly informed choice and have practical expectations from his doctor and the compliance would go up several grades.