Medico-Legal

Inspite of the TB Reports being negative, the Senior Physician - Cardiologist continued with the TB Medicines relying on his Clinical skills, resulted in to the Death of a Patient. Saddled with Rs.25 lakhs as compensation.   Adv. ROHiT ERANDE  ©   Before : NATIONAL CONSUMER DISPUTES REDRESSAL COMMISSION NEW DELHI Case no. : CONSUMER CASE NO. 2860 OF 2017  Judgment Link : https://cms.nic.in/ncdrcusersWeb/GetJudgement.do?method=GetJudgement&caseidin=0%2F0%2FCC%2F2860%2F2017&dtofhearing=2023-10-11 KANIKA DAS (Complainant) V/s.   SURYA POLYCLINIC & ANR. KOLKATA. (Opponents) BEFORE:        HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAM SURAT RAM MAURYA,PRESIDING MEMBER  HON'BLE BHARATKUMAR PANDYA,MEMBER   ORDER Dated : 11 October 2023 Facts in Short : 1.     Smt. Kanika Das filed the complaint for declaring that the opposite parties had committed deficiency in service in not providing adequate and app...

    How to handle Medico-Legal cases ? What to do when you are implicated ? - Adv. ROHiT ERANDE. © Dear Participants of LAMP2 Certificate Course On Law and Medical Profession,   Greetings.  Introduction : The Medicos will agree with me that in these days Doctors have fear at the back of their mind that they might get embroiled in Medico-Legal Cases, commonly known as MLC. The relationship between Doctors and Patients is going through the vicious circle that patient think that  Doctors are just minting money having no regard to patient at all and at the other hand Doctors see almost every patient as a future litigant and that they will get beaten up at the hands of patient's relatives. Lets' try to see the topic "how to handle medico-legal cases " in short.  What is a Medico-Legal Case ? Have you ever heard Architect-legal cases or Law-legal cases or Chartered Accountant -legal cases ?Nope. But it's only the Medical Profess...