The rising assault on doctors has made me think about the reasons for repeated violent assaults on doctors We write so many papers on different subjects. We hypothesize and then prove it by various facts and figures. So Let us think on similar lines - find the reasons and then take remedial measures Why suddenly these things are happening? In earlier days medical science was not so advanced still, these incidences of violence were unheard.
My hypothesis is based on the following The introduction of Consumer protection act - As per the act, the medical treatment is a commodity now. The single most factor which has made the doctors to play safe and to practice defensive medicine. No doctor wants to play heroics and get entangled in legal complications.The doctors have stopped attending the patients at their residences -whatever the situation- Earlier the doctors used to become a…
