It is always better not to find faults amongst our colleagues in such situations. Both the pediatrician and obstetrician were qualified, they did not waste time in treating or referring the case. In a case of CPD with Fetal distress, LSCS is the right treatment and the child may be asphyxiated at birth, so the pediatrician intervened and finding it a difficult case to be handled referred it to the higher center. There is no evidence that any medical person has accelerated the death of the baby hence it can’t be said that there was obvious negligence in this case (1) . In a case Smt.
P. Venkatalakshmi vs Dr. Y Savitha Devi, III (2001) CPJ 402, the patient was a third gravida with one previous normal delivery and second being a miscarriage. This patient was on hormonal injections and her ultrasound examinations during this pregnancy revealed normal growth of the fetus. At term there was…
