Improper consent – Is there no cure for this ailment?

Issue - April - 2024, Posted On: 01 April 2024

The patient, a senor citizen woman, suffered from abdominal pain. Medicines prescribed by the local doctor did not help. She consulted the doctor at his hospital; intestinal swelling was diagnosed.

Patient continued to experience agonizing stomach pain despite change in medicines and line of treatment. The doctor consulted other physicians and advised laparoscopic surgery at another hospital. But to no avail.

There was discharge from the operated site and hence, yet another surgery was performed by another doctor. The patient developed septicaemia and was eventually put on ventilator. The senior citizen lost the last battle of her life, she died after forty-two days.

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