Samiran Nundy is an Indian gastrointestinal surgeon, medical academic, writer and the President of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Rishikesh.
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Samiran Nundy is a former member of the faculty at the Cambridge University, London University and Harvard University, and is the founder editor of the National Medical Journal of India and Tropical Gastroenterology.
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Samiran Nundy is the founder editor of the National Medical Journal of India and Tropical Gastroenterology, and the incumbent editor-in-chief of Current Medicine Research and Practice.
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Samiran Nundy is the co-chairman of the department of academics at the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
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Samiran Nundy is associated with the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics as its editor, and Edpulseline.
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Samiran Nundy is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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Samiran Nundy is a part of the team of 290 specialists of DoctorNDTV.
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Samiran Nundy's contributions are reported behind the Transplantation of Human Organs Act 1994, which made human organ trading illegal and recognised brain death as a form of death in India.
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In May 2014, Samiran Nundy wrote an editorial in the Journal of Current Medicine Research and Practice in which he exposed the corrupt practices in the Indian health sector.
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Samiran Nundy mentioned the practice of unnecessary investigations and referrals made by the doctors and their practice of accepting commissions for the referrals.
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Samiran Nundy suggested computerisation of medical records and procedure audits to combat this trend.
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Samiran Nundy's editorial was inspired by the article, "Corruption ruins the doctor-patient relationship in India", published in the British Medical Journal and written by David Berger, an Australian physician who had worked as a volunteer at a charitable hospital in India.