According to the law, a duty of care is an obligation on one party to take care to prevent harm being suffered by another. In this way, a physician must owe a duty to the patients who consults him for illness. In the case of hospital trust, the duty of care is owed to a patient of a doctor who is employed by the hospital trust. Nowadays, there seem to be an increased claims by the patients against the doctors due to growing awareness about the laws and patients’ right.
In such circumstances, it is important for the doctors to note that under what clinical settings the doctors must owe a duty. For instance, few clinical settings given below may raise the issue of duty of care. A phone inquiry to take the medications from a potential patient A patient of cyber relationship A previous patient with heart disease complaining about the treatment that has been given a few years ago. Treating…
