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Basic Medico Legal Duties of Medical Officers
Basic Medico Legal Duties of Medical Officers
Basic Medico Legal Duties of Medical Officers
BASIC ISSUSES INVOLVING DURING MANAGING THE PATIENT ETHICAL ISSUES AVOID LEGAL LETIGATION
ASPHYXIAL DEATHS
BASIC INJURIES ABRASIONS LACERATIONS CONTUSIONS CUTS STABS BURNS FAI FRACTURES
TORTURE
ELECTROCUTION
BITE MARK
STAB MURDER
DEFENSE CUT
IF NECESSORY HO TO SHO CONSULTANT ETC.. RELEVENT MEDICOLEGAL CASES TO THE JMO,POLICE ETC
MEDICAL NEGLIGNECE
PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT
CONSENT
PROFESSIONAL SECRACY
PROFFESSIONAL SECRACY
Cannot tell patients information to a 3rd party with out patients consent. Dont tell to spouse. Dont tell the domestic servants secrets to his or her master or mistress. Dont tell the government servants secrets to the government. Dont tell the prisoners secrets to police or custody. Not even to the insurance corporation with out his consent. In medical journals, the photos should be unidentifiable. At PM- should not divulge the personal informations. Affect the respect of the deceased or family without relatives consent. PRIVILLAGE COMMIUNITY
PROFESSIONAL MISCONDUCT Can erase or cancel the registration of the doctor if he act below a certain level of a doctor. (A6 F6)
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Abortion- cannot be done Alcohol cannot be used while on duty. Adultery- using professional privilege to approach a female. Addiction- heroin/ cannabis/ pethi, Advertising name must be in small print. Qualifications in small print. Can advertise among doctors. But cannot advertise among patients. If change of working place, in private practice, can send postcards saying the new address. Association- keeping unqualified assistants, association with MLT or Pharmacist.
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False certificate issuing.- by carelessly or deliberately. Fraud- deliberate false claiming of subsistence or travelling. Force- physically violent. Fee splitting- between doctors, pharmacists, drug companies, labs. Failure to attend to a patient- medical negligence, False behaviours- examination of a female with out a chaperon, breaking professional confidentiality.
MEDICAL NEGLEGENCE? CRIMINAL,CIVIL DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION SHIP (AGREE TO HEAL OR TREAT BEST OF HIS ABILITY) BREACH DAMAGE PROVE RELATION SHIP RES IPSA LOQUITOR
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