Most of the litigations against doctors or hospitals beside those of grave blunders as leaving instruments inside body during surgery, operating other operations or organs as desired or not doing basically as attending patients soon in emergency, providing oxygen or other life-saving medicines etc, most cases against doctors are lodged as either patient dies or some complication develop or patient is not cured completely in different courts dealing consumer, civil or criminal cases. No doctor can give 100% guarantee about the treatment or surgery.
The only assurance which doctor can give or can be understood to have given by implication is that he is possessed of the requisite skill in that branch of the profession which he is practising and while undertaking the performance of the task entrusted to him he would be exercising his skill with reasonable competence. Doctors are tried in…
