REASONS FOR INCREASE IN MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE CASES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
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Medical Negligence is defined as lack of reasonable care or skill and willful negligence on the part of the doctor in the treatment of the patient whereby the health and the life of the patient is at risk. It is the act of omission, which a reasonable prudent man should have done, and the act of commission, which the reasonable prudent man should not have done.
The concept of taking reasonable care and skill by the doctor takes its root from the laws of Rome and England. The responsibility of medical professional can be traced back to the 2030 B.C where the Code of Hammurabi provided that “if the doctor has treated a gentlemen with a lancet of bronze and has caused the gentleman to die, or has opened an abscess of the eye for a gentleman with a bronze lancet, and has caused the loss of the gentleman’s eye, one shall cut off his hands.”
Therefore, the point here is, at that time also cases of Negligence were present but now the claims have increased. The simple reason behind the increase is the development in the standard of medical services and technological advancement. The awareness of the society has increased due to literacy and education.
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