When courtroom impressions outweigh clinical records
Issue -
January - 2026, Posted On: 01 January 2026
involving internal fixation with a metal implant. The wound, already contaminated when he was brought in, later got infected, and the fixation failed. Months of follow-up treatment led to instability, non-union of bone, and eventual disability.
The patient alleged that the surgeon had hurried into internal fixation before allowing the contaminated wound to heal, ignoring the standard protocol that called for external fixation in such cases. The doctor, in turn, claimed to have followed accepted medical practice and said he had advised the patient to seek expert opinion at a tertiary centre — an instruction the patient allegedly ignored.
|