Noting that the risk of malpractice liability poses a significant barrier to the provision of volunteer health care in this country, the author analyzes current state and federal legislative approaches designed to overcome the hurdle, including a changed standard of care for malpractice liability from simple negligence to gross negligence, governmental indemnification of volunteer providers, an...

“Patient safety” has always been an important aspect of medical service. As investigative facilities and subspecialties have increased, the value of interdepartmental coordination has come into picture and is of value to avoid medical errors or in other terms of medical negligence. The relevance of the coordination increased after Supreme Court judgment in V.P. Santha Case (Since 1995), where m...

Medical malpractice may be defined as damage suffered by a patient resulting from professional negligence on the part of the carer.2 Modern medicine is an art of healing and caring backed by scientific evidence. Doctors can promise in good faith to do their best for patients but they cannot warrant cure or desirable outcomes. It is clear therefore that mere damage is not a sufficient condition ...

Since the early 1970s, physicians have been subjected to an increasing number of medical malpractice claims. Radiology is one of the specialties most liable to claims of medical negligence. The etiology of radiological error is multifactorial. Errors fall into recurrent patterns. Errors arise from poor technique, failures of perception, lack of knowledge, and misjudgments. Every radiologist sho...

The current mechanism for obtaining financial support for families with neurologically impaired infants is seriously flawed. It relies on payment awarded through the tort system based on a claim that medical negligence was responsible for the infant's condition. The system is extraordinarily inefficient and expensive, as well as being unfair to many families with affected children and to physic...