The Kerala Government Medical College Teachers’ Association (KGMCTA) has announced an indefinite strike with phased boycott of teaching and OPD services over unresolved pay revision anomalies and long pending arrears since 2016. Doctors say the government has ignored assurances given after COVID duty and failed to ensure fair treatment to the medical fraternity.
The Uttarakhand State Consumer Commission held Max Super Speciality Hospital liable after a patient died following a Dobutamine Stress Echo test conducted without proven informed consent. This landmark 2025 judgment explains how lack of informed consent amounts to medical negligence and why hospitals are vicariously liable for doctors’ actions.
The Bolitho v City and Hackney Health Authority case is a landmark judgment in medical negligence law. This article explains how courts can reject even expert supported medical opinions if they are illogical, unsafe, or unreasonable, and how the Bolitho test is applied in India and the UK today.
The Bolam Test is a landmark judgment that defines how medical negligence is judged in law. This article explains what the Bolam test is, how it originated from the Bolam vs Friern Hospital case, how Indian courts apply it, and why an error of judgment or difference of medical opinion is not negligence if accepted medical practice is followed.
AIIMS New Delhi doctors have issued a serious warning against using AI tools like ChatGPT for medical diagnosis or treatment after a patient suffered severe internal bleeding by following chatbot generated advice for back pain. The case highlights the dangers of self medication, AI hallucinations, and why real medical consultation, tests, and clinical judgement cannot be replaced by algorithms.
A detailed analysis of the NCDRC judgment in the Geetanjali Hospital, Udaipur case where nasal polyp surgery without pre-operative CT scan led to subarachnoid hemorrhage and brain herniation. The Commission upheld medical negligence but reduced compensation, laying down important legal principles for doctors.
A shocking ragging case at Doon Medical College, Dehradun where a first-year MBBS student was assaulted by seniors. FIR registered under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023.
A new Indian review reveals strong links between air pollution and heart disease, hypertension and stroke, urging urgent public health action and cleaner air policies.
A pregnant woman died at SMS Hospital Jaipur after being given the wrong blood group. Her blood type was recorded as A+, but later found to be B+. An inquiry found serious medical negligence, failure of cross matching and reverse grouping, SOP violations, and systemic hospital failure. Action and possible FIR may follow.
IIT Indore has developed an AI powered human digital twin under the Charak DT Platform to help doctors simulate diseases and enable early and preventive diagnosis. This futuristic human like replica can mimic breathing and blinking and allows medical experiments to be tested digitally before real world treatment, marking a major leap in Indian healthcare technology.
Medical negligence cases in India are rising, but there is no national database to measure their true burden. This article explains how the absence of reliable data, rising litigation, defensive medicine, and lack of tort reforms are harming doctors, patients, and the healthcare system, and why India urgently needs systemic legal and policy reforms.
Maharashtra University of Health Sciences (MUHS) has announced a blockchain based system to issue medical degrees, mark sheets and training records. The move aims to prevent fake certificates, ensure tamper proof verification and modernise medical education in India. Learn how blockchain will transform academic credential verification.
