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Doiwala, Dehradun (The Hawk): Nobel Laureate and eminent Biochemist Dr Aaron Ciechanover today stressed on the significance of bioethics in medicine. Delivering the inaugural address as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series initiated at Swami Rama Himalayan University here today, he highlighted the dilemma in respect of bioethics in medical profession. He informed that Israel is a relatively small country in terms of population with only 9 million but more than 30,000 cases of cancer of various types are reported every year. Sometimes patients come with terminal stages of cancer and it always remains a difficult task to inform the patient or his family that the patient is going to die. Morally speaking, this fact should not be hidden from the patients or the immediate families, but it has been a tough task. They come to the Hospital with hope and think that everything is fine, but when the MRI or other tests are being conducted, they are a little concerned but when it is found that the disease is incurable and that they will die, the entire life of the patient and his family takes a flip. For the doctors, it is a dilemma of how to deal with this and how to tell patients that they don’t have long to live. Here bioethics comes into picture. How to train the medical doctors to deal with this. Dr Aaron Ciechanover said that when speaking about bioethics, he would like to remind the people about the Covid pandemic. The pandemic created other problems besides the deaths and the problems specific to Covid. The official death count is 5 million but the recount is around 20 million. Israel itself saw more than 14,000 deaths with such an advance medical system and such a small population. The world was not prepared for this pandemic. There we ...