West Bengal has passed a new law to regulate the medical profession. It has set up the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission, and patients who feel that the doctor or hospital has been medically negligent can approach this Commission. They will review the records and then deliver a judgment. The problem with all these quasi-judicial commissions is that they're often divorced from clinical reality.
The panel has little connection with real life bedside medicine because they are sitting in an ivory tower, having a discussion about what transpired, as revealed in the medical records. It's very easy to be wise in hindsight, but it's hard to know why the treating clinician chose a particular course of action when he was making decisions while dealing with the sick patient. This is why so many of these decisions go against the doctor - it's very easy to blame the doctor…
