Gulfstream: 10 September 2006

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5231022.stm

The Indian Medical Association is apparently conducting an investigation into three doctors who were evidently captured on camera offering to amputate beggars’ limbs so that, being more pitiful, they can collect more money. (This subject is an element of Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance, one of the most gruelling books I’ve ever read…)