Talk:Indian Medical Association

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• Official website declares in one place as 178,000 [1]members and on another place 78000[2] members. Pending further scrutiny, I have stated the number of members as around 100,000.--Bhadani 2 July 2005 15:52 (UTC)

Contested deletion

This page is not unambiguously promotional, because it covers in detail the history of the entity, which is a significant player in the health sector in India. There is some puffery that can be removed, but there is no reason for a speedy delete on an article which has been here for about 4 years... --KarlB (talk) 04:53, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Indian Medical Association/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Why does a site called "The Indian Medical Association" contain a long long text about the development of the allopathic (western) medicine? Would it not have been more interesting to see how/if allopathic and ayurvedic medicine have cooperated or oppose each others? What happens in a country with a well developed ancient medical system when another is introduced? Ingrid Eckerman (talk) 07:50, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Last edited at 07:50, 10 November 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 18:52, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

Stance on Indian Medicine

It may be relevant to elaborate on their stance on Indian Medicine (e.g. as here and here and here. It would probably be best if this is described by someone who has a more complete view on the field though - it just seems very relevant for the position in Indian society they hold. effeietsanders 03:01, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

The Indian Medical Association IS Indian Medicine. Thus the name, "Indian Medical Association". The pages you cited show the IMAs position on quackery. Quackery is not medicine.

The American Medical Association also has taken a stand against Quackery.

• Medical Quackery: The Pseudo-Science of Health and Well-Being
• The American Medical Association is finally taking a stand on quacks like Dr. Oz
• The American Medical Association and the Fight Against Quackery

--Guy Macon (talk) 03:59, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

@Guy Macon: for the record, I was borrowing terminology from their own documents. They apparently consider "Indian and Integrated Medicine" to be separate, but use that terminology. I'm not sure what the relevance is of the AMA's position, but... great? I'm not sure what you're disagreeing with, or what point you're trying to make. effeietsanders 21:11, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

You are correct. The IMA page says

"It has been reported that number of quacks are increasing in India, both in urban and rural areas. It is estimated that about 10 lakh quacks are practicing allopathic medicine, out of which 4 lakh belong to practitioners of Indian Medicine (Ayurvedic, Sidha, Tibb and Unani). The health of the gullible people including poor, critically ill, women and children are at stake. Therefore, there is a greater need to act against quacks wherever any of us come across them." (A lakh is a hundred thousand).

So the IMA does call the quackery "Indian Medicine" I apologize for missing that. --Guy Macon (talk) 23:16, 11 September 2020 (UTC)

There are lot of people practicing AYURVEDIC medicine,which belong to practitioners of Allopathic medicine Should i called quacks to these people. Ahteshyam (talk) 20:36, 29 May 2021 (UTC)

RfC Announce:

• RfC Announce: RfC: What is the Indian Medical Association's position on Ayurveda? Your input on this question is welcome. --Guy Macon (talk) 13:43, 26 May 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 May 2021

After 2020 J A jayalal is a hidden missionary worker he revealed when covid 2nd wave is going on ge said to surrender to Jesus to save your life it started rage in Twitter and other social media after everyone seeking ban on IMA 2409:4072:6D10:A50B:31A2:870C:A0E6:304D (talk) 03:53, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ‑‑Volteer1 (talk) 08:38, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

New president 2021-22

New president for 2021-22 Dr.Shahjanand prasad singh should be updated on the page 2409:4064:4E15:A435:A844:9E16:1062:66A5 (talk) 13:47, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

Thanks for good edits to Indian Medical Association

Thanks Cedar777 for these recent edits to Indian Medical Association

• special:diff/1059270421/1081534524

You added that recent article in ThePrint, brought in old sources, and cleaned up the article otherwise. It looks good. Bluerasberry (talk) 12:09, 8 April 2022 (UTC)

Indian Medical Students' Association

The sources for the Indian Medical Students' Association (IMSA) are insufficient (dead link and old mention at a conference) and I am removing that content. The website listed for IMSA on LinkedIn is no longer active. A search of the IMA website also does not seem to support that IMSA an entity within the IMA. Please feel free to restore the IMSA section with additional sources if I have missed something. My research did not turn up much of anything for that group, rather it seems this group [3], the Medical Students Association of India, is the main organization active for medical students in India, which appears to be unaffiliated with the IMA. Cedar777 (talk) 18:07, 23 May 2022 (UTC)