Sandeep accidently fell off his scooter while riding and sustained fracture on the right hand. He consulted the orthopaedic doctor who performed a surgery under C-arm vision screen to insert a rod.

Contradictory test reports are every doctor’s nightmare. It’s like being stuck between a rock and a hard place. A doctor and hospital too faced a similar situation in this case. But they were held negligent on a couple of other oversights as well, as observed by the Consumer Commission.

In this day and age, for some unknown and surprising reasons, lack of proper information on preserving and providing medical records remains to be one of the leading causes of negligence. A hospital recently was added to this avoidable statistic.

Injury during a surgery and known complications of surgery are not the same, legally speaking. While the former may or may not be due to negligence, the latter cannot be attributed to negligence, as this case demonstrates.

The Commission in this case took the patient to cleaners for filing a complaint against the gynaecologist. There were good reasons for it.

Manoj suddenly experienced uneasiness and became unconscious while he was at home. His worried family took him to a doctor who admitted him at his hospital. Manoj was shifted to another hospital two days later. The doctors at this second hospital performed several tests and diagnosed chronic disease and spread of tumour in the left kidney.

The patient – a hale and hearty pregnant woman – went through a torrid time on account of negligence of a hospital and its doctors. They paid heavily for their mistakes too.