Law and the Doctor [paperback] Dr Sunila Sharma [Mar 24, 2023]

Why Read this Book? The book views the changing interface between law and medicine. The doctors, who were once worshiped as Gods, are increasingly being looked upon as mere men serving their personal ends. Any instance of failure of treatment is attributed to negligence and carelessness on the part of the doctors. With the inclusion of doctors within the ambit of Consumer Protection Act, complaints against them are rising. Doctors now feel gullible and somewhat threatened. This book analyses the types of complaints made in the courts against different specialists, and the decisions of the courts. The aim is to learn lessons from the cases and suggest actions to forestall such unhappy occurrences. Being the very first book on the subject, written by a leading anaesthesiologist, the book is an important resource for reference for the doctors, lawyers, and the common citizen. Law is a specialty in itself and it would be unrealistic to expect doctors to know the meanings, nuances and shades of meaning of all legal terms or, even, to know details of law as such. In general, the author has done plenty of ground work for writing this book and has been able to make a difficult subject easy for doctors. She has obviously taken pains to include a large number and variety of cases. - Indian Journal of Medical Research (on previous edition)