In a strange case, a patient was given wrong eye drops by the chemist who tried to hide the mistake behind the name of the drop, instead of pleading guilty.

In an unfortunate incident, a young boy diagnosed with acute appendicitis and operated upon died. What is even more unfortunate that his parents dragged the treating doctor to State Disputes Consumer Redressal Commission, Kerala and blamed him for the incident.

Doctors and hospitals often face a plethora of allegations. While the patients or their relatives blame them seemingly out of anger or lack of knowledge on medical laws, the healthcare providers need not worry so long as they follow due diligence.

It is not certain why some healthcare providers would deny providing facilities for treatment of patients despite being well-equipped. The courts certainly don’t take such things lightly, as the case shows.

Patients can ill-afford to play doctors. It neither serves them nor the treating doctor. But when has this stopped some patients from being the expert they never can be or even drag the doctor to court even though they are completely misinformed on medical facts.

Suffering from immense pain in his legs, Ram approached Bhandari Hospital & Research Center where the doctors advised Laser Assisted Disc Decompression (LADD) of L 3-4 and L 4-5. The surgery was performed and the patient was discharged after a few days. The pain however, didn’t subside and Ram approached SMS Hospital where an open surgery was performed which alleviated the pain.

A benign toothache caused quite a stir in the life of a dentist and a patient recently. Rezia had approached Dr. Premkumar as she had a painful toothache. The doctor referred her to Dr. Awasthy who prescribed her medicine for the pain.

The family of a Scranton mother of two who died five years ago of an allegedly misdiagnosed heart problem settled a medical malpractice lawsuit against Geisinger Community Medical Center and two physicians for $3.5 million, court documents show.