Consumer cases are like a sword over doctor who is mostly afraid of prescribing some medicines or therapy if full battery of investigations to confirm the diagnosis are not completed. Although health was not included in draft Consumer protection draft bill both in 1986 and 2019 but Supreme Court added that medical Profession is a service so doctor and hospital will be included under this act although they did not allow Law professional under it as a sympathy to their colleagues.
But Supreme Court in many judgment clearly has stated that a doctor while treating a patient should be free to write medicines or a therapy on simple clinical assessment with simple basic tests which support the therapy for example to prescribe a ATT, Doctor should take an account of simple clinical symptoms with basic chest X-ray and blood and sputum test, a battery of modern test as CB-NATT or Genexpert…
