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Choosing the best option in the judgement of the doctor is not medical negligence

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Dr KK Aggarwal and Ms Ira Gupta    28 March 2018

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 judgement of the doctor and else isavailable to contradict this, doctor in such circumstances cannot be held negligent.”

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