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Malpractice Or Poor Judgement? - Paper

Malpractice Or Poor Judgement?

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The practice of medicine has never claimed to be an exact science. In
fact, it is very much a hit-and-miss situation. Taking into account these above
factors, India seems to be on a destructive trend regarding their level of
health care. Ever since private medical services fell under the Consumer
Protection Act (COPRA) in April 1993, the number of malpractice suits filed
against doctors has begun to soar. For example, in Kerala, approximately 1800
cases (15% of the total number of cases) have been filed. As Dr. Dipak Banerjee
of the Indian Medical Association puts it: “It's degenerating into a kind of
witch-hunt.”
For years the community of doctors across India was immune to ...

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where surgeons annually pay an average of $75,000 on
insurance premiums. On top of these premiums, doctors who practice very
defensively add as much as $21 billion US to the health care bill every year.
Twenty percent of the tests prescribed by doctors were not necessary, but they
are the result of defensive practising by doctors who do not want to be held
liable.
This condition, already appearing in India, could become the downfall of
their present health care industry. Doctors are being forced to “look upon
every patient as a potential litigant.” There is likely going to be a
tremendous rise in the cost of treatment as doctors begin this new wave of
defensive practising, in which a series of expensive tests are carried out
before any diagnosis is made. Quoting Dr. Chockalingam (Chairman of the Indian
Chapter of Royal College of Surgeons), “If a patient comes with a headache we
may now order a CT scan lest we miss a brain tumour... We now have to see
whether a patient comes ...

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PAPER DETAILS

Added: 7/24/2008 05:00:56 AM
Category: Health & Medicine
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 946
Pages: 4

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