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The medical law reporters for Indian doctors
The medical law reporters for Indian doctors

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE

  • No legal limit on drug quantities doctors can store for dispensing to their patients

    - Bombay High Court | MLCD January 2025

  • MD (Medicine) treating a patient in ICU is not negligence

    - National Consumer Commission | MLCD January 2025

  • Leaving post-surgery patient unattended to attend patients in other counties is negligence

    - National Consumer Commission | MLCD January 2025

  • Transfusing blood without screening under the garb of emergency is negligence

    - Punjab State Consumer Commission | MLCD January 2025

Just Published | January 2025

No legal bar on quantity of drugs that doctors can store to dispense to their patients – Bombay High Court

Dr. Prashant v/s State of Maharashtra
18MLCD (j1) | Bombay High Court, Bench at Nagpur
Judgement in favour of: Doctor

“Every MD Medicine is competent to treat patient in ICU” declares National Consumer Commission emphatically

V. C. Rawat & Ors. v/s Akshaya Hospital & Anr.
18MLCD (j4) | National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, New Delhi
Judgement in favour of: Doctor

Surgeon flies to Dubai leaving the post-op patient unattended, avoids producing passport to show his return – Court questions his absence

The Sun-Rise Hospital & Anr. v/s P. K. Menon & Ors.
18MLCD (j12) | National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, New Delhi
Judgement in favour of: Patient

Transfusing blood without screening under the garb of emergency is not acceptable holds court

Subhash Chand v/s Civil Surgeon, Civil Hospital, Mansa & Ors.
18MLCD (j22) | Punjab State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Chandigarh
Judgement in favour of: Patient

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