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Medical Negligence Liability Awards under CPA: The Chaos Created

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Would you like to explore potential solutions to mitigate these challenges? Q. What are the long-term effects of rising healthcare costs? AI. Rising healthcare costs can have profound long-term...

Medical Negligence: Accountability, Liability and Immunity

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There is no immunity for an offense, but for liability, there is substantial immunity for a physician. "Accountability vs. Immunity: The Physician's Paradox" "Accountable Yet Not Liab...

The Principle In Forensic Science: Its Significance In Criminal Investigations

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Forensic science is that branch of scientific investigation concerned with the basic rules and procedures for analyzing evidence in connection with crimes. These laid principles ensure systemat...

Mandatory Exceptions: Prerequisites for Medical Negligence Proceedings

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Q. Medical negligence is actionable when it results into a bodily harm – physical, physiological or functional – to the patient consequent to a treatment by a physician. Bodily hurt, injury, gr...

Mistakes In Medical Practice Are Real Time Live Lessons For Competence Enhanc...

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Mistakes in medical practice are real time live lessons for competence enhancement: crime if you do not learn from it.   There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistak...

Awarding Compensation in Medical Negligence: Analysis of Krishna Ayer v/s Tam...

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Medical negligence cases represent a critical intersection of law, ethics, and healthcare. They have far-reaching consequences, impacting not only the lives of individual patients and their fam...

Applicability of ratio dicidendi in Bar of Indian Lawyers case to medical pro...

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"The ratio decidendi is "the point in a case that determines the judgment" or "the principle that the case establishes". In other words, ratio decidendi is legal rule derive...

Indian Medical Association v/s V.P. Shantha: A Pivotal Judgment on Medical Ne...

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The Indian Medical Association v. V.P. Shantha & Others (1995) case is a seminal judgment delivered by the Supreme Court of India that brought medical services within the purview of the Con...

Fault Lines In Placing And Adjudicating Medical Negligence Under CPA

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Q. Medical negligence is – Ill-defined offence (Ratan Lal Dheeraj Lal) Adjudicated by ill-defined consumer forums (CPA 1986) Following an ill-defined procedure of summary trial (Jacob ...

Differences Between Suicidal (Or Self-Inflicted) And Homicidal Cuts

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Suicidal Cut:Suicidal or Self-inflicted cuts indicative of suicidal intent are typically located on easily reached body areas like the wrists, neck, or inner forearms. These wounds commonly app...