Objective: To assess the knowledge of health care professionals regarding medico-legal aspects and its negligence. Materials and Methods: This descriptive epidemiological study was conducted among two specialties of health professionals. The total study sample composed of 123 doctors out of which 68 were males and 55 were females. A self structured questionnaire was developed to assess the awar...

DURING the early years of the Health Service damages awarded in the courts for negligence increased to an alarming degree. There were at least three factors contributing to this state of affairs-the introduction of free legal aid, certain changes in the law relating to the liabilities of hospitals for the negligence of their staffs, and a perhaps understandable view by the general public that d...

OBJECTIVE Medical disputes between physicians and patients can occur in non-negligent circumstances and may even result in compensation. We reviewed medical dispute cases to investigate the impact of miscommunication, especially in non-negligent situations. DESIGN Systematic review of medical dispute records was done to identify the presence of the adverse events, the type of medical error, p...

Speaking for Indian context, Criminal Prosecution of Doctors constitutes relatively a smaller volume ever growing and multiplying medical litigation. Medical negligence liability cases entail dominant percentage in litigation addition to other violations like informed consent, breach confidentiality statutory under applicable subject matter specific legislations. In the ambit negligence, our co...