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Negligent doctors asked to cough up 3 lakhs for death of patient

...itting the doctors against the consumer activists, negligent doctors in Kerala have been asked to pay three lakh rupees as compensation to the family of a pregnant woman who died due to aftershock of spinal anesthesia.The issue of doctors coming under the umbrella of consumer protection act has been a very con...

Breast cancer patient lost her case

...Deborah Carney against whom she had put a case for negligent treatment as they feel that the doctor missed an e...r cannot be hold responsible and the doctor is not negligent in his duty....

Government taken to task for health sector problems by doctors!

...nce against doctors is because of the government’s negligent attitude towards the health sector. Doctors said, “The rise in cases of assault on doctors and ransacking of hospitals by relatives of patients who die in these clinics is because of the poor infrastructure in the government (health) institutions,”...

Use of forceps causes baby’s deat

...riate. Mr Davis told the panel that the doctor was negligent and his conduct amounts to a criminal offence of manslaughter due to gross negligence....

Doctor Cleared Of Charges of Killing a baby

... claim for damages that the level of care had been negligent and unacceptable. Mr and Mrs Rowlings had already been successful in claiming damages from the trust, which runs the hospital....

Court Rejects Case of Negligence by Disabled Children against the Doctors

...im compensation. Both the children were born after negligent medical advice. //One such is that of Alexia Harriton, 25 who is deaf, blind and mentally disabled. She said that her family doctor had not informed her mother about the rubella infection early in her mother's pregnancy. Another case is that of a fiv...

￡300,000 Compensation For Family After Death Of Daughter Following Deliver

...uld now be offered a ￡300,000 compensation for the negligent act. Swansea NHS Trust also admitted liability for breach of duty in her case. She was admitted to the hospital when she was 8 and a half-month pregnant. She was told that her baby had passed away in the uterus and that she should opt for normal de...

Road Traffic Accidents Kill 4,000 people in Delhi

... police were taking strict action against rash and negligent drivers. "We have started sending the details of erring drivers to the transport department for the cancellation of their driving permit," he said adding that in the past five months licenses of 31 Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) buses and private...

Wyeth Embroiled in a Lawsuit over its Hormone Replacement Therapy

... the federal court in Little Rock said, "Wyeth was negligent in not testing the drug and not knowing the truth about their drug." However Wyeth's lawyer Jane Bockus told the panel of nine women and three men that the company had been warning doctors as early as 1991 of a reported increase in malignancies amon...

Increased Warning over heart drugs

...: "If somebody comes to see me as a GP, I would be negligent if I identified they had high risk of cardiovascular disease in the next 10 years and did not do something about it. "The balance can be got wrong but I would not want this conference to suggest that medical intervention at reducing cardiovascular...

More Americans Die Due To Side Effects From Prescription Drugs Every Year: Report

...sts, and that, even when they do, they can be held negligent in the performance of the tests, and the interpretation and communication of them. The next step, predict Marchant and his colleagues, will be lawsuits for failing to recommend genetic tests before prescribing medications, and the first such lawsui...

US Supreme Court Could Protect Medical Equipment Manufacturers from Law Suits

... a variety of state tort law violations, including negligent design and breach of warranty. The company maintained that Mr. Riegels surgeon should not have used the balloon catheter because of Mr. Riegels condition and that the surgeon used the device in a manner inconsistent with its labeling. Both a Fed...

The Doctor Parents of a 15 Year Old surgeon Arrested

...the Indian Penal Code, including Sec. 336 (rash or negligent act endangering life and safety of others), sec. 338 (causing grievous hurt by such act), sec. 417 and 419 (related to cheating by impersonation), sec. 468 (forgery for the purpose of cheating), sec. 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) read with...

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