Yet another hospital was recently sued and blamed for a patient’s death. The family had alleged that Ryle’s tube was forcibly inserted by an unskilled nurse which led to patient’s demise!

Patients who do not receive desired result from a treatment often point fingers at the treating doctor or hospital – this case too is an example of this unfortunate mindset.

Rise in ‘defensive’ medicine and diagnosis matching the rise in cases of medical negligence is doing rounds of talks in several quarters of the healthcare and other related segments. While there is no sure way to verify if this trend exists or not, the following case demonstrates quite the opposite!

Leaving a foreign object inside patient’s body is a grievous enough case of negligence. But not submitting a reply on such complain can draw adverse inference, as this nursing home realised.

Loss of a loved one is an unbearable incident. Losing faith in the caregivers is perhaps an obvious outcome of such a heart-breaking incident. This story too is of loss and how such an unfortunate event can cause ordeal to doctors.

Law mandates that informed consent must be taken from an oriented patient, his / her medical condition must be duly noted in medical records, and an anaesthetist must be present during a surgical intervention.

A diagnostic center recently found itself on the wrong side of law – not only for committing an error but also for boasting no wrongdoing despite clear evidence that reflected otherwise.