Legal Remedies for Countering the Menace of False Consumer Complaints against Doctors in India: Lawyers Advice
In recent times, Consumers have developed a tendency to file misleading and baseless complaints against doctors and hospitals for medical negligence. But doctors don't need to be always at fault, the consumers or patients can be at fault too in taking the prescribed treatment and medicines suggested by the doctors. When the consumers are themselves negligent, they cannot go to the court and waste time of the judiciary by filing false complaints about the agony they suffer because of their fault. Section 2(1) (o) of the Consumer Protection Act 1986 has provided the medical profession has been included under the...
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