Navigating Medico-Legal Consent: A Labyrinth of Challenges Q. Consent is an essential legal requirement before a physician does any intervention or provides treatment to a patient. Consent is no...

Q. Medical profession, health care, in Consumer Protection Act 2019. There is nothing in this new Act to infer that health care services are included in the Act.The relevant provisions are disc...

Medical fraternity in India is greatly agitated on the two woes inflicted on the profession. First, the inadvertent mischief caused by inclusion of Health Care as service in Consumer Protection...

The complexities and challenges in evaluating medical negligence cases need attention of the judiciary. The intersection of law and medicine presents unique difficulties, particularly when lega...

Q. There is no legal definition of negligence and certainly none for Medical Negligence. Supreme Court in the lead case, Jacob Mathew, adopted the definition from Ratan Lal Dheeraj Lal's Indian...

Demonizing doctors through ill-informed medical negligence CPA decisions should be effectively countered Q. Ill adjudicated medical negligence cases, by lay judiciary, under summary trial of C...

Good-faith, the basis of physician – patient relationship, its first casualty Doctors demonized Q. Once a duly qualified and licensed doctor gives out to the public that he is available t...

Q. Can you review my book Perverse Medical Negligence Judgments?Response. I found some information about your book, Perverse Medical Negligence Judgments are the Bane of Modern Medicine by Dr. Sh...

The recent National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission's judgment on fetal sonography is a blatant example of judicial activism and retributive justice. The case: Udayan and ors. v/s M/S...

Q. Indian case law on good faith exemption from medical negligence?In India, the concept of "good faith" in medical negligence cases is often discussed in the context of whether a doctor can be h...