Whenever a doctor anticipates that a negligence case can be framed against him from the patient’s side, he gets panicked and indecisive. What should be the immediate steps to avoid police arrest? Can doctors be arrested in all medical negligence cases? What should a doctor know about his rights, if arrested by the police? This article will provide an insight to these questions.
As discussed in our previous article titled " A Quick Revision of Criminal Laws Relevant to Doctors ", doctors must know the provisions in IPC to save doctors from false allegation and legal suits filed by the patient and his family. This article deals with the probable police arrest and its consequences if at all a situation like that arises in any case. When should the police be informed? There can be two specific set of situation where a doctor MUST inform the police and where the informing police are…
