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Choosing the best option, in the judgment of the doctor, is not medical negligence

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eMediNexus    31 July 2022

In the case of Charan Singh vs Healing Touch Hospital And Ors on 24 April, 2003 [III(2003) CPJ 62 (NC)], the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission observed “it is a settled law when two choices are available, exercise of one, which is the best, in the judgment of the doctor and anything else is available to contradict this, doctor in such circumstances cannot be held negligent."

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