Ms. P presented to a dental clinic with complaints of pain in her lower jaw . Her condition was assessed by Dr. A , and it was diagnosed by her that the pain was arising from the seventh tooth of the patient and that the tooth required immediate extraction. Ms. P followed Dr. A’s advice and got her seventh tooth extracted . However, even after extraction, the patient was still not relieved from the pain . Then Ms. P decided to consult another dentist, Dr. S , from whom she got to know that she had been misdiagnosed by Dr.
A . The problem was not in the seventh tooth , but in the sixth tooth , and that the wrong tooth was extracted by Dr. A. Subsequently when Ms. P approached Dr. A, she refused to meet the patient. Lawsuit The patient filed a lawsuit against Dr. A in the consumer forum , alleging that Dr. A had wrongly diagnosed the cause of her lower jaw pain . Furthermore, a wrong…
