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Today,

Dr Hema, a roaring practitioner and the unit chief of the surgical

department received a registered post with acknowledgment. It
was a legal notice stating medical negligence, from a patient’s son,
whom she could not recollect. She immediately called her
subordinates. Her Assistant Professor, probably the duty MO who
admitted the patient, Dr Manoj also had just received a similar
legal notice.

There is nothing that can perhaps be so professionally damaging and emotionally and mentally draining than being
arrayed as a defendant in a medical malpractice claim.
 They pondered…
• What should I do immediately ? (Dr Hema has got IMA PPS policy (Basic), Dr
Manoj has no professional indemnity protection)

• What is medical negligence? what is “gross” negligence?

• What is Bolam rule?

• If a case is registered later in the sessions court or consumer court,

what should I do?

• What is the difference between IMA PPS (Basic), IMA PPS

(Extended) and other professional indemnity schemes? Which one
should I take?