Surgeon slapped to pay compensation for not removing healthy appendix
In a judgment that may raise many eyebrows across the medical fraternity, a Gujarat based doctor has recently been directed to pay compensation to a patient as he did not remove a healthy appendix.
The case was that of an open and shut surgery, where when the doctor put the patient under knife found that the appendix was not inflamed and hence decided not to remove it.
For more details, check out the link below:
Doctor Does Not Remove Healthy Appendix, Still Directed To Pay Compensation
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