Supreme Court holds eye surgeon held negligent as he fails to prove his claims
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March - 2025, Posted On: 01 March 2025
The patient experienced vision problems. He consulted the eye surgeon who performed cataract surgery. An innocuous and fairly common procedure turned out to be quite a nightmare for the patient.
He visited the doctor very next day with complain of severe pain in the operated right eye. The doctor changed the bandage, prescribed medicine and drops, and advised to follow up on the third day.
Condition of patient’s right eye deteriorated fast. Despite following up several times, there was no improvement. Fed up with the complications, the patient consulted couple of other eye specialists. To his utter shock, both doctors diagnosed endophthalmitis. Eventually, the infected right eye had to be operated. The patient lost complete vision in the right eye.
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