04/12/2017
ELegalMD Tip: Proper documentation and counseling of patient is important in any informed consent and an unsigned medical record has no legal validity.
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LegalMD Tip: Doctors can be held liable for deficiency of services for not giving discharge summary, treatment details & after-discharge instruction to patients
LegalMD Tip: Hospital/medical center will be liable for vicariously (financial) liable for the error of treatment or negligence act of its doctor/staff in the course of the employment or failure to obtain informed consent or failure to issue required medical certificates.
LegalMD Tip: Detailed medical records are essential to ensure that the ongoing care of patients is efficient and safe. Be aware that there is a range of statutory and ethical considerations which govern the creation, maintenance, retention, and use of medical records.
LegalMD Tip: Take separate and specific consent for surgery/procedure; and transfusion of blood, if anticipated.
LegalMD Tip: Take separate and specific consent for surgery/procedure; and transfusion of blood, if anticipated.
LegalMD Tip: Where radiologist undertakes the service for consideration, he cannot avoid his liability by reason that his report was as per the impression of the machine, it is his obligation to read and interpret the test report properly
LegalMD Tip: The doctor while giving treatment as per established medical practice may come to a conclusion which any other more experienced and qualified doctor may not arrive at, this mere difference in opinion cannot be a ground for holding the doctor negligence.
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