Kusum Sharma & Ors. Vs. Batra Hospital & Med. Research; Centre & Ors on 10 February, 2010 

“Negligence cannot be attributed to a doctor so long as he performs his duties with reasonable skill and competence. Merely because the doctor chooses one course of action in preference to the other one available, he would not be liable if the course of action chosen by him was acceptable to the medical profession.”