Quite often, following unfavorable outcome of treatment or suboptimal outcome, or for other reasons (e.g. not wanting to pay your bill!), patients or their relatives make allegations of negligence against the treating doctors/hospitals. What are the various types of allegations? Firstly, allegations may be oral or written. Oral allegations may be in person (face-to-face) or telephonic. Written allegations may be via hard copy or nowadays commonly, by soft copy viz.
E-mail or WA, etc. The allegations on hard copy may be made by the patient himself / herself or through an advocate. Secondly, allegations may be made whilst the treatment is going on, or after the treatment is over. Post-treatment allegations may be made early, say within days or a couple of weeks or they may be made late i.e. after several months . Thirdly, allegations may be : Genuine / Justified Perceived –due to…
