Dharamshala: Holding Fortis Hospital guilty and vicariously liable of medical negligence by Orthopaedic Surgeon in providing treatment for fracture of...
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US: Decline in rural medical students likely to hurt rural physician workforce
USA: The rural U.S. is already in dire need of more doctors, and with decreasing numbers of medical students coming from rural towns, the problem is l...
Patna High Court slams Govt; calls for Immediate CLOSURE of Illegal Path labs, Nursing homes
Patna: In its recently passed interim order, the Patna High Court has directed the Bihar Government to close all Pathological Laboratories, Diagnostic...
UK based Indian-origin doctor accused of sexually assaulting patients sentenced to jail
London: An Indian-origin doctor, who exploited women’s cancer fears to carry out invasive intimate examinations, was found guilty of sexually as...
Lack of proper diagnosis,treatment for gastrointestinal ailment: Hospital told to pay 8 lakh
HYDERABAD: Holding the treating doctors and city-based hospital guilty of medical negligence and deficient in service; the Hyderabad District forum ha...
No DNA match, Prosecutrix version suspicious: Delhi HC relief Doctor Accused of Rape Allegations
New Delhi: A Delhi court has acquitted a doctor of the charge of raping his patient as the FIR was lodged after a delay of 20 hours and the prosecutio...
Res judicata: NCDRC junks complaint filed 15 years after Operation, absolves doctors of medical negligence
The commission noted that for the case, the patient had approached various fora including, State Human Rights commission in 2015 which was dismissed, ...
Rectosigmoid Perforation after DnC Procedure: Gynaecologist, Hospital told to pay over 12 lakhs
Hyderabad: Holding a Hyderabad based hospital and its gynaecologist deficient in service by not taking due care and caution post Dilation and Curettag...
Negligence of Security guard-Negligence of Hospital: Hinduja told to pay Rs 2.5 lakh for patient fall
Mumbai: Holding the hospital and staff negligent for the fall of spine surgery, who fell from her wheelchair in the hospital premises and suffered a f...
No Strike for Doctors: SC notice to IMA, centre on plea seeking contempt proceedings against them
“The contemnors (IMA) herein, being the largest medical group in India and Ministry of Health, are absolutely liable for the deliberate and blat...