Western guidelines or practice algorithms?—Yorkshire Pudding or Dal Makhni!

Physicians to be able deliver contemporary care need to be updated on the recent developments in diagnosis and treatment. However, there is numerous data available practically on each and every aspect of day-today clinical practice. Clinical guidelines may provide a quick solution for everyday problems but many times they themselves are too many, too voluminous and may confuse more than simplify. More-over, they are based on Western derived clinical data, even clinical practice, developed for ethico-legal and reimbursement purposes and therefore may not be applicable to clinical practice in majority of the world. Thus there is a need to develop simple management algorithms which can be used by physicians from developing world who are often constrained by availability, accessibility and affordability.