Patient loses voice after surgery: NCDRC holds AIIMS doctor guilty of medical negligence - Video
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Upholding the order of the State Commission, the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC) recently held a surgeon from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi guilty of negligence for cutting the left phrenic nerve of a patient without obtaining a proper informed consent.
As a result of the injury to the left phrenic nerve, which had to be cut to remove the Anterior Mediastinum Tumor, the patient suffered paralysis of diaphragm and loss of voice.
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