12 August 2024


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SC: Patient’s Death on Face of it Cannot be Medical Negligence - 21.04.2022

Supreme Court has said that even death of a patient cannot, on the face of it, be said to be medical negligence. The court said that it emerges from the law exposition that a medical practitioner is not to be held liable since of mischance of judgment in choosing one course of treatment to another.

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