Query - I am medical superintendent and unit head in a 400 bedded multi super-specialty hospital. We have almost all speciality and super-speciality services available. In tertiary care setup, can internal medicine consultant provide thrombolysis? If a patient who has been in regular follow-up for 10 years under internal medicine comes to the hospital with the stroke, can the internal medicine consultant admit the patient under him in internal medicine or the patient has to be admitted under neurology according to the land of the law?
I request your suggestion on this aspect and I request you to provide any link for official guidelines to circulate among consultants so as to make them aware of law of the land. (name withheld) Answer - As per Bolam Principle which guides court to decide medical negligence, reasonable degree of skill and care should be provided. This care would be…
