This document discusses various medico-legal concerns for doctors. It emphasizes the importance of proper documentation for things like prescriptions, discharge certificates, medical certificates and operative reports. Doctors should follow standard treatment protocols and avoid unnecessary comments. Record keeping is important and doctors must balance ethics with profitability. The document also stresses the importance of compassion and a humane touch in the medical profession.

1. MEDICO LEGAL CONCERNS –
AN INSIGHT

2. Dr.Abhijit Ghosh M.S
Consultant Eye Surgeon
PAST PRESIDENT,Ophthalmological
Society of West Bengal
Aurobindo Netralaya
Nightingale Hospital
Kothari Medical Centre

5. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
 INDIVIDUAL PRACTITIONER
 WORKING IN A HOSPITAL
CONSULTANT
MEDICAL OFFICER

6. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
 ADMINISTRATOR
CHECK CREDENTIALSOF DOCTOR
CHECK WHETHER DEGREE IS
UPDATED & RECOGNISED

8. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
PATHOLOGICAL & BIOCHEMICAL
REPORTS
(CBS REPORTS NOT VALID)

9. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
U S G

10. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
P R E S C R I P T I O N S
MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENT
HISTORY & CLINICAL FINDINGS
INVESTIGATIONS
PROGNOSTIC FACTORS(esp.
operative cases-to be explained to pt.&
party before opn. -To be recorded)
ADVICE OVER PHONES ARE NOT VALID MEDICOLEGALLY

11. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE
TREATMENT NOTE TO BE CLEAR
Medicines to be PROPERLY explained
COUTERSIGNED BY PT/PARTY
BHT
To be properly completed & Records kept

12. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATES
SEE PT YOURSLF
SEE ALL OLD REPORTS

13. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
OPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS
TO BE IMMEDIATELY INFORMED
TO THE PARTY AND DOCUMENTED
COMPLCATION IS NOT
NEGLIGENCE

14. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
PLEASE FOLLOW STANDARD
TREATMENT PROTOCOLS
(WHICH YOU CAN JUSTIFY)

15. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
RECORD KEEPING

16. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
BEHAVIOUR
AVOID-UNNECESSARY
COMMENTS
Pt. Under L.A.

17. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
B U S Y
Remember
What is regular for us is once in a
lifetime experience for the pt .

18. E X C U S E S

19. E X C U S E S
 “an incredibly fleeting,totally consensual
encounter of less than a minute in a lift”
 Conceded that he had attempted a “sexual
liasion” despite “clear reluctance”

20. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
COMMENTS FROM OTHER DOCTORS
MUST BE IN WRITING

21. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
PLEASE REMEMBER
OUR OWN INTERPRETATIONS OF LAW
ARE NOTVALID

22. ATTRIBUTES OF A SUCCESSFUL
MODERN DOCTOR
 In addition to Professional skill(mandatory)
 Good Economist
 Management skills
 Advertising Skills

23. TERMS UNHEARD OF PREVIOUSLY
 Target
 High Volume
 Break Even
 Futuristic Investment
 Venture Capitalism
 Wealth &Value Creation

25. MEDICOLEGAL CONCERNS
 balance between ethics and
profitability

26. MEDICAL ADVERTISING
PAGE 3 DOCTORS

27. MEDICAL ETHICS
SHOULD ESSENTIALLY
BE
INCORPORATED IN THE
TEACHING CURRICULLUM

29. COMPASSION

30. THE HUMANE TOUCH

31. BALANCING ACT

33. HAPPY
DIWALI