Research Paper On Medical Negligence

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MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE RHEA DALAL BBA LLB ROLL NO- 16 “If people understood that doctors weren’t divine, perhaps the odor of malpractice might diminish.” In India doctors are treated as second life saver after God. The standard of care should be more so that the cases of negligence may not arise. Nowadays Indian society is experiencing a growing awareness regarding the patients right as the number of case of medical negligence has increased drastically. A doctor can be charged with criminal negligence …show more content…

The law firms and attorney helps the people to protect them from the negligence caused by them. There are many children suffering from physical and mental problems faced due to the negligence at the time of there birth many a times the shoulder is been ruptured. In many cases the doctor has diagnosed with the wrong disease and the treatment and operations have been done without the proper knowledge of the disease. The X-rays and the sonography are many a times not done roperly due to which the treatment is not performed properly. Poor medical care of the doctors and the hospitals results into the negligence. Medical malpractices insurance are majorly taken by surgeons and physicians , every kind of medical facility and medical provider needs to carry malpractice insurance which mainly includes the medical facilities spas, primary care and therapists , stroke, by pass, dialysis, lungs are been performed without proper diagnoisation , many families have lost there near and dear ones because of negligence of the doctors in many of the cases the reason for the death is not been disclosed by the doctors for the actual reason of the …show more content…

The statistics say that the number of cases has increased from the year 2008.In the year 2011 there were about 195000 death by medical malpractices and negligence , on an average a doctor kills about 783,936 people every year in the year 2013.The number is increasing every year. It was identified that more than 1.2 trillion money is been wasted due to such cases every year , on an average about 500 kids are harmed every year and 10 kids per week. One in 10 patients are victims of these negligence in the hospitals . The risk is 20 times higher in the developing countries to that of the developed about 1.4 million people suffer from infections acquired in the hospit In one particular circumstance physicians, particularly psychiatrists, are held to a different standard than other defendants in a tort claim. Suicide is legally viewed as an act which terminates a chain of causality. Although the defendant may be held negligent for another 's suicide, he or she is not responsible for damages which occur after the act. An exception is made for physicians. Although there exists no protocol or algorithm for predicting suicidality with any level of certainty, courts throughout the United States have found physicians to be negligent. Furthermore, damages are routinely assessed based on losses which would hypothetically accrue after the act of suicide. In one particular circumstance physicians,

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