ROLE OF GENERAL PHYSICIAN IN MEDICO-LEGAL CASES (POISONING)
Dr. Ravindra R. Pandhare*, Dr. Nagnath S. Gangasagre, Dr. Deepak Sawant, Dr. S. Lahankar, Dr. Nilesh M. Salve and Dr. Abhijit G. Pachpor
ABSTRACT
All the doctors are come across certain medico legal problems at least once in his life. General physician should know about medico legal cases. Cases of injury, illness, snake-bite, burns or cases having legal implications etc, should be treated as medico-legal cases. It is important to understand the implication of the cases, sometimes it leads to make mistakes, which may leads in trouble to the physician. In such cases doctor should inform to police or magistrate without any delay, if he fails, it may invite trouble to him. Preservation of human life is important. It is duty of all medical practitioner to make available immediate & timely medical care to every injured person whether it is accidental or homicidal, the life of person is more important than the legal formalities, Whenever such cases come to the hospital, the doctor on duty must inform to the duty constable or police station giving the preliminary data as name, age, sex, of the patient and place of occurrence of incidence, giving false information is punishable under section, 193 IPC. A medico-legal register should be maintained in the casualty of every hospital, details of all medico-legal cases noted in register, preliminary data as complaints, and condition of the patients, examination, treatment progress and prognosis should be maintained by physician this would be immense help for future reference.
Keywords: medico-legal, physician, hospital, injury, IPC.
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