Doctors Can’t Be Prosecuted For Medical Negligence Merely For Not Delivering ‘Assurances’: Allahabad HC [Read Judgment]

Can a doctor be prosecuted for criminal negligence merely because he/she failed to deliver on the assurances given to the patient? No, said the Allahabad High Court in Dr Meera Malik vs State of UP, while quashing a complaint against a surgeon.It was alleged in the complaint that on the assurance of the surgeon that everything would be normal, consent papers were signed for operation to...