Is your Doctor playing Dice with you ? The Risks are yours !

It is bounden duty of a Doctor to tell his patient pros and cons – including Risks – of treatment suggested by him. Plain common sense, backed by law and several cases.

However, sometimes the Doctor/ Surgeon errs grossly on this. Reasons ? Money or sheer incompetence / overconfidence. Who pays ? The Patient. For a lifetime, many times…

While there is a whole plethora of cases similar, they still do not seem to stop. In one of the recent ones, Orissa High Court has again observed :

” It is the duty of a doctor to explain his patient or relatives chances of success and the risk of failure of the suggested treatment and inform them about the foreseeable risks and possible negative effects of the treatment, keeping in mind the patient’s specific condition….”

Another interesting observation :

” A common man treats the doctor as ‘Dhanvantari’.He has tremendous amount of confidence on the doctor. The comforting and reassuring words of the doctor are very powerful and sometimes it creates miracle for the patients and strengthen them to fight from within. That is why the doctors should shoulder their responsibility with all care and caution, rise to the occasion, believe in hard work and discipline and behave with all sensibility not thinking only of their Everestian interest of amassing huge wealth burying larger collective interest of common men which would strengthen the patient-doctor relationship.”

The Court went on to explain that it it was the duty of the petitioner to explain the deceased or at least the complainant, chances of success and the risk of failure of the suggested treatment and inform them about the foreseeable risks and possible negative effects of the treatment keeping in mind the patient’s specific condition.

The Court referring to Alister Anthony Pareira v. State of Maharashtra, (2012) 2 SCC 648 held that there were no prima facie materials for commission of an offence under Section 304 Part II IPC. However, the materials were sufficient under S. 304-A IPC. The petition was disposed of with the direction to trial court that it was free to assess the evidence which would come on record during trial.

Read more at: http://www.livelaw.in/doctors-must-explain-risk-suggested-treatment-patients-orissa-hc/

or at :

http://blog.scconline.com/post/2017/03/09/orissa-high-court-duties-of-doctor-towards-patients-include-telling-them-about-the-risks-of-suggested-treatments/

The original order is here :

http://lobis.nic.in/ddir/ori/SKS/judgement/27-02-2017/SKS27022017CRLREV7582013.pdf

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इस वेबसाइट के सभी उपयोगकर्ताओं के लिए अस्वीकरण

इस वेबसाइट द्वारा प्रदान की गई जानकारी और सलाह सामान्य है। वह किसी भी विशिष्ट मामले में किसी भी उपयोग के लिए नहीं है। कृपया हमेशा उचित कानूनी सलाह लें।

आपके द्वारा इस साइट का किसी भी तरह का उपयोग का अर्थ निम्नलिखित के प्रति आपकी सहमति और स्वीकृति है:

1) हमने आपको विज्ञापनों जैसे किसी भी माध्यम से इस साइट का उपयोग करने के लिए प्रेरित नहीं किया है और न ही आपसे कोई काम मांगा है।

2) यहां दी गयी सभी जानकारी सामान्य उपयोग के लिए है और आप इसका उपयोग पूरी तरह से अपनी इच्छा और जोखिम पर करते हैं। यह उपयोग किसी भी तरह से ग्राहक-वकील संबंध का गठन नहीं करता है । यहां प्रस्तुत जानकारी पर भरोसा करते हुए किसी भी व्यक्ति द्वारा की गई किसी भी कार्रवाई के लिए हम किसी भी तरह से उत्तरदायी नहीं हैं। यह दोहराया जाता है कि हमेशा उचित कानूनी सलाह ली जानी चाहिए। हमारी वेबसाइट में मौजूद कोई भी जानकारी किसी भी प्रकार की कानूनी राय या कानूनी सलाह के बराबर नहीं है।

3) इस साइट के माध्यम से हमारे द्वारा किए गए सभी प्रयास पूरी तरह से स्वैच्छिक और निःशुल्क हैं। हमारे लिए किसी भी प्रश्न का उत्तर देना आवश्यक नहीं है और हम प्रश्नकर्ता को सूचित किए बिना किसी भी समय ऐसा करने से इनकार कर सकते हैं।

4) हमारी वेबसाइट आपके उपयोगकर्ता अनुभव को बेहतर बनाने के लिए कुकीज़ का उपयोग करती है। हमारी साइट का उपयोग करने का मतलब है की आप कुकीज़ के हमारे उपयोग से सहमत हैं।