Blame game is dangerous in the midst of ever increasing litigation of medical negligence. The role of grinding burden and precarious dilemma on the part of a forensic pathologist had lead to criticism both from medical fraternity and courts of law. Most of the times the documentation is much to the dissatisfaction of a forensic fellow to read between the lines what had went wrong. Many case records show the 'after-making'.
Most events of occurrence lack connectivity and observations made on daily routine are less informative. Courts are ready to accept that untoward incidents would occur in any case. But the essentials of such an episode cannot be found in many hospital records. It is a bounden duty of any consultant or any doctor to make it a habit to mention the date and time of his visitation of his patient and note down the progress or improvement of signs and symptoms as narrated…
