Dealing
with all the medicolegal problems faced by the doctors including
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Assessment and certification of
all cases of injuries, sexual offences, alcohol related offences,
age certification, Dying declaration etc. |
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Maintenance, standardization and auditing
of all medical and medicolegal records in a hospital. |
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Providing guidance to the hospitals and doctors
in preparing proper and correct formats of various documents
needed in practice e.g. various certificates, consent forms,
indoor/outdoor papers etc. |
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Dealing with any case filed under Consumer
Protection Act (e.g. cases pertaining to wrong diagnosis, failure
to investigate, inadvertent effects of treatment, hospital deaths,
anesthetic and operative deaths) which includes studying the
case from legal view point, searching for references from medical/legal
literature to defend the case and drafting of the reply to the
complaint. |
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Consultation to the doctors to face cross-examination
in the courts in any previous medicolegal case handled by them.
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Attending the court calls at future dates. |
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