Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 447 · Decided 20 April 2022
DR. (MRS.) Chanda Rani Akhouri & ORS. v. DR. M.A. Methusethupathi & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 447 · [2022] 5 S.C.R. 812
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6507/2009
- Decided
- 20 April 2022
- Bench
- AJAY RASTOGI, ABHAY S. OKA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Medical Negligence - Consumer Protection - Liability of doctors - Demise of husband of appellant no.1 pursuant to kidney transplantation - Allegation that the cause of death was post- operative medical negligence - Complaint dismissed - Held: A medical practitioner is not to be held liable simply because things went wrong from mischance or misadventure or through an error of judgment in choosing one reasonable course of treatment in preference to another - In practice of medicine, there could be
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