Most often in our day to day practice, we Doctors usually take one consent only on a paper where some printed lines are written or printed and the patient usually signs or mostly by anybody with the patient and Doctor start doing all the treatment and every diagnostic treatment but this is not sufficient in Legal court. As day by day we are finding that extensive legal cases are lodged in consumer court,civil and even criminal court for any minor to major overlooking of patient or simply harassing doctor for monetarily or mental benefit or simply malign Doctor in society for crediting media hype and for increasing TRP, social media, print and electronic media always give headlines to such cases against Doctors.
Therefore, we Doctors should be over cautious, except to give consultancy in OPD in clinic or hospital where consent is implied as patient has come to our OPD for…
